You might have noticed Vodafone's recent marketing campaign around the mobile internet, but did you know it's causing ructions with mobile developers? It's all to do with the 'transcoding' technology that Vodafone uses to reformat websites to look good on mobile phones.
The trouble is that if websites are already doing that themselves, Vodafone's technology breaks them. We noticed this when Facebook Mobile stopped working, although the fact that it's okay now hints that the problems can be resolved.
The issue has been controversial though, with mobile developers claiming that Vodafone isn't doing enough to fix the problems for all sites, rather than the bigger ones. It just goes to show that even when the operators throw open their portals to the wider internet, there can be teething problems.
(via MobHappy)
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