3 To Expand The Wall In The Garden

Ewan wrote:Up to 200 websites specially vetted by mobile provider 3 could be availabel to handset users (reports The Register). While still a walled garden approach (because thats what the customers want, remember), at least now you'll be able to waste an entire lunch hour browsing, as opposed to the five minutes of footie highlights.

I would have gone for a '3' contract recently when I bought my new Nokia 6680, but the walled garden policy put me right off. As far as I was concerned, their call prices were good, but no outside world contact was a complete showstoppper.

My next phone will almost certainly be 3G but I will only go for a contract that has no walled garden restrictions at all!

Just posting in the vain hope that someone from 3 may read this and realise their current policy is losing them trade.

langdona wrote:My next phone will almost certainly be 3G but I will only go for a contract that has no walled garden restrictions at all!

Just posting in the vain hope that someone from 3 may read this and realise their current policy is losing them trade.

Not that much. As crazy as it seems, the vast majority of people (i don't have statistics but i wouldn't be surprised if it was over 95% of people) either don't know what 3G is or think that 3G is just about video calling. Actually, many smartphone owners don't even know that they have a smartphone and use their device just as a normal phone (making phone call, taking an occasional photo when they're drunk enough not to realize that the picture looks like crap, sending SMS...).
As long as they keep their price plan attractive and if they manage to improve their CS public image, 3 will do just good even with their walled garden approach.