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| Written by HiVoltage |
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Melita Mobile is increasing the prepaid call rates. New subscribers will get the new rates immediately, while existing subscribers will be switched within the next month. The previous was 22c per minute, charged on a per second basis. The new rate is 24c per minute, charged in chunks of 30 seconds (12c). To make things look good, Melita aren't mentioning the 24c rate, but instead advertising it as 12c/30 sec. They even had the cheek to send an SMS saying "Dear Customer, from 21.7.10 your mobile rate will be 12c per 30sec to any local number!" (yes.. including the exclamation mark!)
A number of offers are also being discontinued, most notably the one where calls to other Melita numbers were charged at 10c per call. Instead, now there's a limited time offer where one gets free calls to Melita numbers for 30 days after topping up by €10. This offer however is valid only for topups made before 31st July. After that date, no more free calls for you!
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 June 2010 ) |
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| Melita launches HDTV
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Saturday, 08 May 2010
Melita this week announced the details about the new HDTV service. At the moment, the information is a bit sparse and has to be collected from different locations, but here is the summary. There are 9 HD channels at the moment, and in order to watch them, one needs to rent the set top box for €10 per month. The HD channels are available only on the XL package, which goes for €29.99 per month. So, that will be €39.99 monthly for just one TV set with 9 HDTV channels. To make your life a bit easier, however, Melita is offering free installation, and the receiver also allows you to pause, rewind, and record live TV.
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| Last Updated ( Saturday, 08 May 2010 ) |
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| Google Maps now supports turn-by-turn navigation for Malta
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Saturday, 08 May 2010
In the last weeks of April, Google added Malta in the list of countries where turn-by-turn navigation in Google Maps is supported. All one has to do is point the current location and the destination, and Google comes back with the details of how to get there. At the moment, however, a number of important details such as one ways and points of interest are missing. To alleviate this, Google allows anyone to submit changes to the map. These are then moderated, and if accepted, are eventually published to the live map. Recently, turn by turn navigation was also enabled on some of the mobile versions, and will be coming officially to more platforms very soon. Now, all we need is for everyone to start submitting corrections, and since Google Mobile Maps requires mobile data, we also need data prices that would cost a bit less than 50 times the price of fuel to get from point A to point B.
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 10 May 2010 ) |
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| Melita to improve mobile coverage, introduce HDTV
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Monday, 01 February 2010
Melita is to invest €3m in 2010 and a further €2m in the following 2 years to further improve mobile coverage. Since coverage seems to always have been the weakest point for Melita Mobile, this should be a very important upgrade for the company's offering. Also, to make up for the fact that Italian and English football rights for the following 3 years was lost to GO Plus TV, Melita Cable TV will be doubling the number of channels offered. Apart from that, Melita is to launch HDTV in the first half of the year. These announcements come a few days later from the announced "Unlimited Calls" "upgrade" in which not all customers would benefit because while previously on a €15 prepaid account you would be getting €15 of credit to spend however you like, you are now restricted to a number of minutes and a number of SMS's to other networks, and free calls only to Melita customers. Considering that most numbers you would be calling are probably not Melita numbers, this supposed upgrade is actually a downgrade.
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 01 February 2010 ) |
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| 2009 - So long and thanks for all the 0's
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Monday, 28 December 2009
The first decade of the century is almost over, and like most publications, Maltameter
is taking a quick look on what happened during the past year and what to expect
in the next.
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 28 December 2009 ) |
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| "Mobile Monday" tackles Entrapreneurship in Malta
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
Mobile Mondays are events held around the globe mostly by non-profit organisations with the aim to bring key people from the mobile and technology industry together to share ideas. Yesterday, such an event was held for the second time in Malta. The main topic this time was "Local Mobile Entrapreneurship: What is Needed?"
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 December 2009 ) |
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| Melita Mobile & Vodafone now giving full topup value
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Saturday, 26 September 2009
For the last few years, whenever you topped-up a prepaid mobile subscription, you didn't get the full value of your topup. In fact, out of a €10 top up, you only got €9.46. The excuse from the mobile operators was that this was because of the 3% government levy on mobile phone usage that was introduced a few years back, and the increase in VAT from 15% to 18%. However, this complicated the way phone usage costs are calculated, because the advertised rates weren't true at all, because you had to add around 5.7% to that price.
In the last 2 weeks, however, Melita Mobile removed this service charge, and started giving the full value on all topups. A few days later, Vodafone complied. No news has come from GO as whether they will remove this charge. One thing's for sure, however - GO seem to be lagging behind.
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| Last Updated ( Saturday, 26 September 2009 ) |
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| "Mobile Monday" event tomorrow
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Mobile Monday is an organisation present in over 70 countries, organising events for mobile phone industry professionals, along with others that may be related, such as ICT which is one of our main interests at Maltameter. The aim is to bring these people together. Tomorrow, Monday 14th September, will be the first time such an event will take place in Malta. Entrance is free, following free registraion to the community. Click "Read More" for more details and press release.
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| Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 September 2009 ) |
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| Melita Mobile now charges 10c/1MB
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Monday, 24 August 2009
Prepaid mobile Internet access has been charged at 7c/60KB for a long time by all Maltese operators, in a way that every session is charged 7c at minimum, making it practically useless for anything. To load a single page could cost you over €1, and to get some email or RSS notification would cost you 7c every time your mobile phone checks for updates. Vodafone have recently offered a solution for this by paying for a bundle of €1 per day for the days when you need access. Melita Mobile however went for the no-strings-attached way, with a new rate of 10c per Megabyte transferred - charged at 1KB increments. Up till now, this is the only rate being offered by Melita. No bundles or contracts are being offered at the time.
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| Last Updated ( Monday, 24 August 2009 ) |
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| The status of DAB+ Digital Radio in Malta
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Thursday, 06 August 2009
Back in May 2008, we reported that DAB+ transmission trials have started. A substantial number of developments have been registered since then, and at the moment, digital radio transmissions can be received from the major part of the Maltese territory. In order to keep up with the developments, we have contacted Sergio D'Amico from DigiBnetwork (the company responsible of deploying and maintaining DAB+ in Malta and performed a short interview. Sergio was also kind enough to provide us with a digital radio receiver to test out the service.
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