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Blyk, the UK MVNO for people between the ages of 16 and 24, has signed up 100,000 customers, six months ahead of schedule. Blyk claims that response rate (29 percent) to the ads is very high compared to other media.

Blyk launched last year in the UK and has an interesting business model: it provides free mobile phone calls and text messages, no contract, with a catch — you agree to receive up to six messages a day from their advertisers.…

The New South Wales government has scrapped plans to set up free Wi-Fi hotzones in the central business district of Sydney and other NSW cities. The government looked at proposals from 15 providers but decided not to go ahead for financial reasons. The article in the Sydney Morning Herald says “in the US, free wireless schemes in Chicago, Houston and San Francisco have been dumped after failing commercially” is not accurate. These networks were never built so they have never…