Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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The Elusive 3G

I’ve always had patchy Vodafone coverage at home, with the signal flip-flopping between GSM and 3G, but over the last few weeks I’ve noticed a change. Whenever I try to use a data service (eg e-mail, one of our apps) the 3G icon vanishes immediately the phone tries to connect. Long wait, usually 20s or so. GPRS kicks in and off it goes, slowly.

Now if this was occasional behaviour I could believe it was due to vagueries in the RF handling, but given it is systematic it looks like something deeper. Like the nearest base station has lost its 3G data capability and its not important enough to warrant fixing. Who knows. All I know is that its very annoying and not what I’m paying for.

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