| uk.telecom.mobile-mini-FAQ@aldie.co.uk 2005-09-28, 5:48 am |
| This is a weekly short posting giving brief details of where to find
more information about the subject of uk.telecom.mobile: mobile
telecommunications in the UK.
There is also a companion group called uk.telecom for discussion
of non-mobile topics. Before you post, please consider which group to
use and then post to that one group.
The FAQ for the group is available on the web at
<URL:http://www.freedomphones.co.uk/utmfaq.htm>
Suggestions for additions and changes to the FAQ are always welcome by
email to uktmfaq@freedomphone
s.co.uk
If you are new to this newsgroup please at least scan
through the FAQ before asking a question.
The group's charter is as follows:
"This group is for the discussion of topics relevant to:-
1) The UK mobile and paging telephone companies.
(e.g., Cellnet, Vodafone, One2One & Orange)
Fixed wireless services (e.g. Ionica & Atlantic
Telecom) are NOT mobile.
2) Telephone equipment available for the above networks
Advertising is forbidden.
Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.) are forbidden.
Such material belongs on a web or FTP site to which a pointer may be
posted. Cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP) may be used where
authentication is important and should be as short as possible.
Posts must be readable as plain text. HTML, RTF and similarly formatted
messages are prohibited. To see how to make some common newsreaders
comply with this, read <http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html>.
Pointers to commercial or other web sites in signatures are permitted
provided the message is on-topic. All signatures should be 4 lines or
fewer and preceded by the customary usenet separator "-- " (dash, dash,
space) on a line of its own."
(Note that although the network names Cellnet and One2One have
changed since the charter was written, and both Ionica and Atlantic
Telecom have gone bust, the intention remains the same: the group
is for mobile and paging networks, not fixed radio access.)
Note that there is now a group uk.adverts.telecom.mobile so if
you want to advertise something related to mobile phones please
do it there and not here. The uk.adverts.telecom.mobile charter
gives recommendations for things like subject lines. Check at
<URL:http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.adverts.telecom.mobile.html>
Anyone interested in any uk.* newsgroup should really subscribe to
uk.net.news.announce. This is a low volume moderated group for things like
proposed new groups, charter changes, and UK Usenet Committee elections.
For full details about the uk.* hierachy see <URL:http://www.usenet.org.uk>.
Welcome to uk.telecom.mobile. If you talk sense about mobile
telecommunications in the UK you will not go far wrong.
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