This week Gareth, Matt, James and Andy have a very special guest, Mike Fairman, the CEO of Giffgaff. In a lengthy  interview Mike answers listener questions along with being grilled by a panel of Mobile Morons (not including Andy.)

Direct Download

iTunes

Download the iPhone App

RSS Feed

Regulars: Gareth, Matt, James and Andy.
Special Guest: Mike Fairman

Show Notes

Chat with Mike Fairman, CEO of Giffgaff

iPhone 4 review is complete and will be published soon. Matt has a problem!

SE X10 Mini Pro unboxing

Motorola Charm appears

LG puts out 1.6 Android device!!!!!! GOSH!

BlackBerry 6 official video

Webkit browser on BlackBerry

BlackBerry Storm 3 Specs Leaked

Bargain corner:

Alcatel OT708

Samsung Tocco Ultra
Nokia X3 on PAYG Tesco direct for less than £80

Tesco iPhone4

Nokia N900

Giffgaff goodie bags

Giffgaff questions: 

Gareth intro: "We're joined by Mike Fairman CEO of GiffGaff, you may have heard us talk about GiffGaff quite a bit here on MTA and Tracyandmatt.co.uk - indeed like myself I think that both Matt and Andy are GiffGaff customers!?"   any more G?"

   a)what was your position there?
   b)Why did you decide to set up giffgaff?

       a)if Independent, why choose O2 as the carrier?
       b)can you switch to another network or are you under contract for so many years?
       c) why would a network carrier allow you to use their network if they know you are going to offer a much better product than they do?
(to demonstrate my point,  I see Virgin as a different model to TMobile, not better, just tailored to a different customer base. GiffGaff trounces O2 in every department which ever way you look at it 'unless' you want a contract subsidised handset - are they are probably one of the worst out there for that anyway? oh, and the reason I'm with o2 PAYG is to simply get the cheaper home broadband! Rarely use the sim!)
            If O2 venture:
        a)Why undercut themselves and generally make a much better network model rather than do it at O2?
(at such cheap and competitive pricing, is GiffGaff sustainable? What number or subscribers to you have and whats the break even number? so far I have received more in payouts than I have paid out in topups for very little effort. Is this sustainable? )

     * MINI SIM CARDS for Ipad/iphones (ANDY)

     * SUPPORT TURTLE (ANDY)

What phone do you use?

Hi Guys,

Feedback for you: Brilliant podcast, always makes me laugh, and sometimes informative!

A question also if I may? Since getting my iPhone4 I have noticed that my data usage has shot up. On the 3gs I don’t think I used 500 meg in 6 months but with the 4 I hit over 800mb in a week! This is with no real difference in usage patterns as far as I can tell. The O2 tech support said it was because the cellular usage figure includes WiFi but I find that hard to believe. As of today, having reset the stats, it has recorded 190k downloaded on cellular data, but has not been outside of my home WiFi coverage! Have any of you noticed this? On the plus side, O2 say they cant see any huge data use, but I’m worried I will get a huge bill in a months time.

David.

PS. Andy, the Pre is still fine. Mainly an alarm clock but it gets an occasional outing as a phone and would still be my next choice after the iPhone. 

I am having some trouble since apple released upgrade 4 for iphone 3gs.  I use to be able to go to my address book for location to set an appointment and now only some of my contact will work the way they use to and some the map vibrates and it will not transfer all data to location. Any ideas on what I can do? I have applied all resent updates from the itunes website.

Chuck  

Limerick time

Gareth Myles – twitter.com/klonricket
Andy Lee – twitter.com/weirdshanghai
James Richardson – twitter.com/jpr7373
Matt and Tracy (and James) Davis -     twitter.com/tracyandmatt

Twitter @mtaddicts

Email : [email protected]

Many thanks to The Stetz for the music

Subscribe in iTunes to our weekly podcast

RSS Feed for our weekly podcast

Download the iPhone App