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This is the list of AT&T Stores and At&t Shops in Birmingham AL USA

220 STATE FARM PKWY STE 104
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35209
(205) 912-7600
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PLANET CELLULAR – FULTONDALE
1710 DECATUR HWY
FULTONDALE, AL 35068
(205)608-3022
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9256 PARKWAY E
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35206
(205)833-5297
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835 ODOM ROAD, SUITE 101
GARDENDALE, AL 35071
(205)608-0548
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4700 HIGHWAY 280 EAST SUITE 5
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35242
(205) 980-0273
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3232 GALLERIA CIRCLE STE 102
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35244
(205) 733-9500
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1616 GADSDEN HWY
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35235
(205) 655-0089
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4949 PROMENADE PARKWAY
BESSEMER, AL 35022
(205)424-9763
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WIRELESS EXPRESSIONS, INC.
4761 LETSON FARMS PKWY
MC CALLA, AL 35111
(205) 477-1170
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60 COLONIAL PROMENADE PKWY
ALABASTER, AL 35007
(205)664-3421
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PLANET CELLULAR
265 SUPERCENTER DR
CALERA, AL 35040
(205) 668-7530
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PLANET CELLULAR
300 SPRINGVILLE STATION BLVD
SPRINGVILLE, AL 35146
(205) 467-0620
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THE CELLPHONE SUPERSTORE – SPRINGVILLE
300 SPRINGVILLE STATION BLVD
SPRINGVILLE, AL 35146
(205)467-0620
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WIRELESS EXPRESSIONS
71 VAUGHAN LN
PELL CITY, AL 35125
(205) 338-5520
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1704 HIGHWAY 78 EAST
JASPER, AL 35501
(205)302-2600
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PLANET CELLULAR
300 HWY 78 E
JASPER, AL 35501
(205) 221-9500
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CELLULAR CITY
2255 HWY 78 W
DORA, AL 35062
(205) 221-3307
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PLANET CELLULAR
41162 HWY 280
SYLACAUGA, AL 35150
(256) 245-4703
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SOUTHEASTERN CELLULAR
208 BATTLE ST
TALLADEGA, AL 35160
(256) 362-5500
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FUTURE WIRELESS
307 2ND AVE NW
CULLMAN, AL 35055
(256) 734-3076
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PLANET CELLULAR
307 2ND AVE NW
CULLMAN, AL 35055
(205) 734-3076
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1351 MCFARLAND BLVD NE
TUSCALOOSA, AL 35406
(205) 759-1086
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CELLULAR SOLUTIONS
1410 MCFARLAND BLVD E
TUSCALOOSA, AL 35404
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PLANET CELLULAR
1701 MCFARLAND BLVD E
TUSCALOOSA, AL 35404
(205)556-2900
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CELLULAR SOLUTIONS, INC.
2300 MCFARLAND BLVD
NORTHPORT, AL 35476
(205) 339-1880
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5980 OLD GREENSBORO RD
TUSCALOOSA, AL 35405
(205) 345-5575
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PLANET CELLULAR
5550 MCFARLAND BLVD
NORTHPORT, AL 35476
(205) 330-8722
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FUTURE WIRELESS
5550 MCFARLAND BLVD
NORTHPORT, AL 35476
(205) 330-8722
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901 RAINBOW DRIVE
GADSDEN, AL 35901
(256)546-9449
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PLANET CELLULAR
330 E MEIGAN BLVD
GADSDEN, AL 35903
(256) 546-1081
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WIRELESS EXPRESSIONS, INC.
42461 HWY 195 VILLAGE EAST SHOPPING CENTER
HALEYVILLE, AL 35565
(205)275-3922
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PLANET CELLULAR
850 BROOKWOOD VILLAGE
HOMEWOOD, AL 35209
(205) 445-0778
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SOUTHEASTERN CELLULAR
7893 A CRESTWOOD BLVD
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35210
(205)956-5211
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PLANET CELLULAR
2000 RIVERCHASE GALLERIA
HOOVER, AL 35244
(205) 985-3071
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PLANET CELLULAR
5042 PINNACLE SQUARE
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35235
(205)655-7140
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PLANET CELLULAR
1401 DOUG BAKER BLVD
HOOVER, AL 35242
(205)437-0025
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PLANET CELLULAR
3014 ALLISON BONNETT MEMORIAL DR
HUEYTOWN, AL 35023
(205)491-0181
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PLANET CELLULAR
5907 TRUSSVILLE CROSSINGS PKWY
TRUSSVILLE, AL 35235
(205)655-4380
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PLANET CELLULAR
309 Parkwood Road
BESSEMER, AL 35022
(205)428-7232
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PLANET CELLULAR
8950 WEAVER AVE
LEEDS, AL 35094
(205)702-4160
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PLANET CELLULAR
16700 HWY 280
CHELSEA, AL 35043
(205)678-8460
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CELLULAR EXPRESS, INC.-GREENSPRINGS
337 GREENSPRINGS HWY
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35209
(205)941-1144
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CELLULAR EXPRESS – PELHAM
3569 PELHAM PARKWAY SUITE 9
PELHAM, AL 35124
(205)664-7373
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LIST OF AT&T Stores in Montgomery Alabama (AL)

907 ANN ST
MONTGOMERY, AL 36107
(334)213-3680
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7024 EASTCHASE PARKWAY
MONTGOMERY, AL 36117
(334)272-3115
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2510 COBB FORDS ROAD
PRATTVILLE, AL 36066
(334)285-8032
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131 INTERSTATE DR.,
GREENVILLE, AL 36037
(334)382-8822
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The Cellphone Superstore
2414 KIMBLE RD
SELMA, AL 36701
(334)872-4025
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FUTURE WIRELESS
2414 KIMBLE RD
SELMA, AL 36701
(334) 872-4025
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Wireless Plus- Troy
220 Elba Hwy
Troy, AL 36079
(334)770-2355
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Lisa’s Radio Shack
72 S. Forest Avenue
Luverne, AL 36049
(334)335-3030
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1404-A HWY 231 SOUTH
TROY, AL 36081
(334)670-9696
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1710 OPELIKA RD
AUBURN, AL 36830
(334)502-4043
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LIST OF AT&T Stores in Mobile Alabama (AL)

PLANET CELLULAR – MIDTOWN
1500 GOVERNMENT ST
MOBILE, AL 36604
(251)476-1313
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PLANET CELLULAR
3100 AIRPORT BLVD
MOBILE, AL 36606
(251) 479-4640
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124 E I-65 SERVICE RD NORTH
MOBILE, AL 36607
(251) 450-3561
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3293 BEL AIR MALL
MOBILE, AL 36606
(251) 471-6205
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PLANET CELLULAR
5821 OLD SHELL RD
MOBILE, AL 36608
(251) 342-1942
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PLANET CELLULAR
1204 SHELTON BEACH RD
SARALAND, AL 36571
(251)679-3497
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PLANET CELLULAR
6880 HWY 90
DAPHNE, AL 36526
(251) 621-1142
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4419 RANGELINE RD
MOBILE, AL 36619
(251) 661-4444
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2200 HWY 98 STE 5
DAPHNE, AL 36526
(251) 621-7373
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9912 DIMITROS AVE.
DAPHNE, AL 36526
(251)626-5221
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720 SCHILLINGER ROAD S
MOBILE, AL 36695
(251)639-1833
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PLANET CELLULAR
7941 MOFFETT RD
SEMMES, AL 36575
(251) 649-6603
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PLANET CELLULAR
113 S GREENO RD
FAIRHOPE, AL 36532
(251) 990-4157
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PLANET CELLULAR
702 MCMEANS AVE
BAY MINETTE, AL 36507
(251) 937-7740
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2131 S MCKENZIE ST.
FOLEY, AL 36535
(251) 970-3452
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LIST OF AT&T Stores in HUNTSVILLE Alabama (AL)

4800 WHITESBURG DRIVE, SUITE 102
HUNTSVILLE, AL 35801
(256) 650-208
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4929 UNIVERSITY DR STE G
HUNTSVILLE, AL 35816
(256) 890-3700
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CELLULAR SALES OF ALABAMA INC
5901 UNIVERSITY DR
HUNTSVILLE, AL 35806
(256)895-6005
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CELLULAR SALES OF ALABAMA
8000 MADISON BLVD
MADISON, AL 35758
(256)464-6010
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HWY 53
HARVEST, AL 35749
(256)851-7617
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CELLULAR SALES OF ALABAMA
12835 HWY 231/431
HAZEL GREEN, AL 35750
(256)828-8736
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CELLULAR SALES OF ALABAMA
603 SOUTH JEFFERSON ST
ATHENS, AL 35611
(256)230-6675
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US HIGHWAY 72 W
Athens, AL 35611
(256)232-4757
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1217 POINT MALLARD PKWY SE
DECATUR, AL 35601
(256)301-5700
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WIRELESS EXPRESSIONS, INC.
24663 JOHN T. REID PARKWAY
SCOTTSBORO, AL 35769
(256) 575-2800
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HWY 431 N
ALBERTVILLE, AL 35950
(256) 878-2055
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FUTURE WIRELESS
307 2ND AVE NW
CULLMAN, AL 35055
(256) 734-3076
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WIRELESS EXPRESSIONS-FT. PAYNE
1614 GLENN BLVD SW
FT. PAYNE, AL 35968
(256)997-1885
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PLANET CELLULAR
330 E MEIGAN BLVD
GADSDEN, AL 35903
(256) 546-1081
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1801 BELTLINE RD
DECATUR, AL 35601
(256) 308-1022
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UK Web Hosting
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Currently USA is dominant and popular country and a preferred country for hosting. However if you live in Europe specially in UK you must consider hosting your website locally because if you have a site like Britain and UK Listings where you have lot of visitors your server need to be close to your visitors. Hosting the site locally in England has manifold advantages . First of all you are dealing with a local company with same time zone so their administrators and customer service department will be opened during your local time and you have the advantage that your issues can be solved or resolved during your business timings.

The other thing is that there is a thing called pining time in internet. Ping time is less if the server your site is hosted locally so that the data does not has to be transferred to far away countries and across overseas.

Here is how this works in a bit detail. Actually internet traffic routing is that every router stores with it the information about the routers near to itself. Every router will gives preference to send traffic to the router which is closest to the final destination of the packet. This is the manner how the packet keep on traversing from one router to the next and ultimately reaches its final destination. This transfer of data from one router to another is called a hop. There is another factor to all this routing mechanism and that is its trust on other networks which is called reliability.

The higher the reliability more is the chance the router will pass data to it. So this transfer of packet from one destination to another keep on happening like this and each time the routers intelligently decides these things with the help of routing tables and reliability factors and some other factors some times like cost.

So this was a bit of explanation on why you should decide to host in your own country UK England if the people who will be using this site will be mostly from UK . The loading time for the users in UK will thus be less because of less number of hops in case of UK Web Hosting. England hosts usually have one problem due to which people some times avoid them and that is they are somewhat expensive then their counterparts across the world.

So before hosting a site with hosts in United Kingdom you must have all these facts in mind and if you can afford should always give your local companies a first try. Looking for a good UK hosting company can be done by going to the sites which reviews the services of different hosts. There you would definitely useful resources and experiences of people which have been using services of these hosts. Also UK is a major hub for network traffic in Europe . Other major hubs in Europe are in Germany and Sweden but the most major one is UK so that another good reason to host in UK.

Orange pay as you go

Orange is a French company and is owned 100 percent by France Télécom. In UK orange is has joined hands with T-Mobile and technical written as T-Mobile/Orange . Together Orange and T-Mobile are the no. 1 mobile phone services company provider in the United Kingdom and according to 2010 estimate the the service users in UK reach around 33 million subscribers which is larger than any other telecom company in England.

Orange uses 1800Mhz GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA . Their slogan is Every thing every where. Main services orange provides in UK are Mobile phones, mobile broadband and home broadband. Orange also offers pay as you go phones. Orange provides mobile, broadband and home internet service too. The major cellular phone sets they offer are HTC 7 Mozart, LG Optimus in Silver , Samsung Galaxy Apollo i5801 Black , Sony Ericsson Zylo, Samsung Monte
S5620 , BlackBerry Curve 8520 by Orange, Doro PhoneEasy 410gsm, Miami from Orange in black , Alcatel OT-222 in pink , Alcatel OT-222 in black , Lisbon from Orange, Rio from Orange in pink , Rio from Orange in black , Orange Nokia 1616 , Samsung E1170 , BlackBerry Curve 8520 Silver , Samsung Libre C3300 , Samsung Monte Slider E2550 in black, Samsung Monte Slider E2550 in pink , Alcatel OT-606 in black , Sony Ericsson Spiro , LG Town C300 ,  Orange LG Town GT350 , Sony Ericsson Spiro White , San Francisco from Orange in grey, Orange Nokia X3 Touch and Type, Samsung B2710 , Samsung Libre C3300 White Flutter, LG Town GT350 in white and pink, LG Cookie Lite T300, San Francisco from Orange in white , Alcatel OT-606 in lilac , Nokia C3 Touch and Type, LG Optimus One , BlackBerry Bold 9780, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Fashion Edition, Motorola Flipout, Nokia C2-01 , HTC Wildfire Black Edition , Samsung Tocco Icon, LG Optimus Me, Orange BlackBerry Curve 9300, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Lime , Sony Ericsson Xperia X8, Nokia 5230 , Samsung Tocco Lite, Miami from Orange in pink, Alcatel OT-355 in carbon black, Alcatel OT-355 in white, Nokia C1-01 , Rio II from Orange in white , Rio II from Orange in black and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Orange also offers Samsung Galaxy S II.

Here are the details of Orange pay as you go plans which they are offering right now

1. Orange Monkey Plan ( £5 top up 25 free texts plus free music , £10 top up 300 free texts plus free music , £20 top up 600 free texts plus free music, £30 top up 1000 free texts plus free music,

2. Orange Dolphin pay as you go free internet and texts . You can text, poke or tweet as many times as you like with Dolphin. Just top up £10 or more each month and we’ll give you free texts and free internet on your phone. Plan details (£10 top up 300 free texts plus free internet, £20 top up 600 free texts plus free internet, £30 top up unlimited free texts plus free internet )

3. Orange Canary pay as you go free calls and texts to any network. Talk to friends and family for hours on Canary with free evening and weekend calls to any mobile. Or share great moments with free texts or free photo messaging every evening and weekend. (£10 top up 100 free minutes plus 100 texts or photo messages* , £20 top up 200 free minutes plus 200 texts or photo messages* , £30 top up 300 free minutes plus 300 texts or photo messages*)

4. Racoon pay as you go low cost calls and texts. (Racoon is a simple, low cost plan that’s great for talking and texting. Get our lowest call rate of just 12p per minute and send a text for only 12p too.)

5. Camel pay as you go . free international calling minutes (£10 top up 60 free international calling minutes , £20 top up 120 free international calling minutes, £30 top up 240 free international calling minutes )

All of these Orange pay as you go plans are for the mobile users which don’t want to engage them in long term and just want for short term and do not want a contract with orange or just want to give a test or try to their level of service. Other users which might be interested in this can be the people who are on short term stay in UK like tourist , visitors and business man and students which are there on short term for courses. If you want to long term contract with orange then usually you are better off to be in contract because you will get a latest cell phones from Orange and will obviously get better rates. As far as Orange coverage is concerned Orange has very powerful signal all over the UK .

The reason is that the UK is a small country and they have their signal amplifiers or mobile tower installed after some distance so that the signal don’t drop so generally signal quality is good through out the country for orange. Other than cellular phone service in UK orange also provides broadband services in home and mobile broadband.

You can view your orange balance and your package by logging onto their website. This will show you your current package , your usage and other account related options like the your profile address etc.

o2 pay as you go

O2 is one of the largest telecom company in the United Kingdom UK and also sponsors or O2 Arena. Main services of O2 are telecommunications and O2 broadband and O2 pay & go or pay and go. Also O2 provide cellular services on 2G , 3G and in the last quarter of 2009 it also proved and demonstrated 4G connection. It is predicted that its O2 mobile broadband services will be offered with a 1Gps speed in near future.

As of now if you want to go for a contract with O2 UK they offer and 18 month or 24 month contract and they will also give you a new phone if you go in contract with O2. If you want SIM only then you can do go for just a month or 12 month of contract with O2. This is when you are happy with your old cellular mobile phone and don’t want a new mobile set.

The rates are also different for example if you purchase a 1 month sim only plan with O2 for 600 minute you would have to pay £20.50. If you are on a 12 month SIM only plan then its £15.50. If you are on 900 minutes and 12 month SIM only plan then its £20.50 and for one month its £26.00. If you are on 1200 minutes and 12 month SIM only plan then its £26.00 and for one month its £31.00 . If you are on unlimited minutes plan with O2 and 12 month SIM only plan then its £41.00 and for one month its £46.00. This was just to give you idea of the rates they offer.

These were the rates for sim only . The rates if you take a phone with your contract are different from this and are around 1.5 times of these rates and plus of course a 18 month or 24 month contract term.

Recently O2 has also introduced a package called as “International Favorites” to cater the immigrant community . If you add on this package to your existing package you will be able to call the countries mentioned here. You can just call for 3000 minute to any 3 numbers of your choice to these countries

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada*, Chile, China*, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong*, Hungary, Iceland, India*, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico*, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Singapore*, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States*, Venezuela

As a marketing campaign and to get more customers O2 has re branded Millennium Dome and its name have been changed to O2 Arena now. O2 customers get the priority tickets to O2 arena and they can purchase it 48 hours in advance before it is available to general UK public. Another venture of O2 is to contribution to O2 angels

Also for further penetration in UK marketing O2 has become a partner of Academy Music Group and Live Nation and O2 customers get priority tickets to these events too.

O2 UK also offer No monthly contract, and the freedom to change your allowance every 30 days. This service is called Simplicity pay & go. For this you need to give them some top up amount and you will be given some minutes to be used. When the minutes are finished you again have to recharge you O2 Pay & go or O2 pay as you go. Currently minimum top up amount for O2 is 10 pounds. There is another package for O2 top up or O2 pay and go customers for £15 and over. In this amount they can call unlimited from O2 to O2 and also send unlimited texts from O2 to O2.

If you have owns a blackberry device and want O2 top up or pay as you go then here is the deal for you £15 – £29 for 500 free UK texts and 500MB web browsing + BlackBerry email. Another and yet a better package for blackberry on O2 is £30+ Unlimited free UK texts and 500MB web browsing + BlackBerry email

O2 also offers home broadband and mobile broadband which will beyond the scope of this article.

Wind Mobile is the probably the fastest growing mobile company in Canada. For the time being it only serves some big cities through out Canada. The cities it servers are Toronto, Mississauga, Scarborough, Richmond Hill and all other areas inside greater Toronto Area. The point of selling of Wind mobile right now is not its quality but its the cheap cellular phone packages it offers to its customers.

Other than Toronto Wind mobile phone company also servers Edmonton , Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Wind Phone will soon expand to other major cities. There are some pros and cons if you purchase Wind as with any other company. Major benefit is the cost which is specially welcomed by students and low income Canadians. The major drawback or cons are that Wind mobile will only work in major metros and if you just move outside the city you will be taken to roaming to other networks like rogers and roaming cost can vary but usually its 25 cents per minute which is quite a bit. If you go to the United states they you would get T-Mobile roaming which also cost about the same 25 cents per minute.

Wind Mobile also have no contract or pay as you go plans . If you take a 2 year or 3 year plan the major benefit would be that you would get a cellular phone set at a very cheap price however if you don’t want to stick with one company than wind no contract is with you . In that case you can only take the sim from wind or either purchase a cell phone set from them after paying them in full for the mobile phone. Day by day wind cellular company is expanding its coverage to other countries and increasing its signal strength in the cities where it already have a network.

The purpose of this good signal strength is that if you have a good signal strength than your phone might work in basements some times and inside shopping malls. and other places like elevators of multistory buildings. As the Wind Phone coverage is expanding day by day so it is not wise to give a map here in this article because who knows the wind mobile coverage expands in a rapid manner in next six months. Right now the prepaid cell phones wind mobile is offering are Google Nexus S, Nokia C5-04, Nokia C7, Samsung C414, Huawei U1250, Huawei U3200, Samsung Gravity 2, Nokia 5230, Huawei U8100, LG dLite, Alcatel Tribe with Android, BlackBerry BoldTM 9780, WINDspeed data stick E1691, Motorola XT720, BlackBerry Pearl 3G, WINDspeed data stick E181, BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Maple, BlackBerry Curve 3G, Huawei U7519.

Iridium is one of largest satellite phone company in terms of subscribers. Hundred of thousand people uses iridium bases phones . However it must be kept in mind that if you purchase a iridium bases phone you would only be able to use it with with iridium based services. The models for satellite phones used are as below Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone is the ultimate in trusted. Iridium 9505A Satellite Phone, Iridium 9505A US Satellite Phone, Beam RemoteSAT – RST100, Beam TranSAT (Fixed) RST620, ASE ComCenter II Series, Aircell ST 3100, Beam SatRADIO (Portable) – RST825, Beam RapidSAT (Portable) – RST625

The best part of using these sort of phones are that you can even use it on while you are cruising and also while you are taking a chartered flight. All major routes of the world are covered by iridium. The coverage map can be found here on their website. This map not only cover the air route coverage map but also the other coverage maps which are covered . The site is here http://www.iridium.com/support/library/CoverageMaps.aspx .

The industries where satellite phones are needed most are Adventure Travel, Aviation, Emergency, Government, Heavy Industry, Maritime, Military, Transportation. Also following are the services which are most commonly provided by satellite phones and its providers Phones, Iridium OpenPort, Modems & Modules, Voice Services, Data Services, LRIT Tracking and Monitoring, Personal Locator Beacons, Accessories, Docking Stations. Also here are the most common applications of Satellite phones Asset Tracking, Automation & Control, Crew Calling, Email, Encryption, Fleet Management, Monitoring, Netted Communications, Personnel Tracking, Safety Services.

Iridium claims that their service is most reliable and around a staff of 400 persons monitor the traffic and quality of traffic every moment in order to avoid any problem in service. They also claim that their network is very reliable and the coverage stretches far all over the globe and they outperform their competitors. However you must also read third party reviews before you finally make your purchase as once you purchase the phone you are almost stuck with that service provider.

China Mobile (中国移动通信) in Chinese with the subscriber base of around 600 million is probably the biggest Mobile phone provider company in China. Most of shares of China mobile is owned by the Chinese Government and so is the most of market in China. Currently China mobile uses these technologies GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, TD-HSDPA, TD-LTE. Some other mobile phone telecom companies in China are China Netcom, China Telecom, C cont., China Unicom, G’Five, Panda Electronics and some other .

Subscribers of China mobile are all around mainland China but it is specially dominated the rural markets of China as it has a huge network and is superior coverage enables it cover most part of the country which helps this company to offers its services even to the remote areas where other operators does not offer services yet.

From a tourist point of view if you are visiting China and needs to have a cell phone there with a Chinese number to be easily accessible by the people there you need to purchase the SIM. One thing here specially from a tourist to China perspective is that you have to enable international calling service if you are using China mobile. For this you have to physically go to there customer services center and give them a deposit and they will then enable International dialing service enable on you mobile or cellular phone.

The dialing Code of mainland China is 86 while for other territories 852 is for Hong Kong and 853 for Macau and 886 is for Taiwan. Smaller to mid level cities and towns in china usually have a 7 digit dialing code while the bigger cities like Shanghai, Beijing and other bigger cities usually have a 8 digit code. So check the site of China mobile before you travel to china and see if they have good offers and if you can take your GSM phone with you it will most like work their just by inserting you new China Mobile sim in your handset.

You can even find mobile phone booths at all of the major airports in China as there are lot of tourists and travelers who prefer to get a SIM immediately as soon as they land so that they can immediately be in touch by their loved ones. China mobile not only operates in China but have invested in some other countries too with other names. This has enable this mobile phone company to grow its customer based because as far as China is concerned it has already reached it maximum mobile penetration within its population and even rural Chinese have cellular phones with them.