Can you cancel your phone contract if prices rise?

If you're on a mobile phone contract and the provider puts its prices up, frustratingly there's not an awful lot you can do about it right now - but the winds of change are blowing.

The telecoms industry regulator Ofcom is looking to put a stop to in-contract price hikes this year, and has provoked mixed reactions from the likes of O2, Vodafone, Three and the rest of the big networks. So, is a ban on mid-contract price rises likely? Do you know where your network stands on the matter? And can you cancel your contract if prices rise? Here are the answers to those questions.

Using Mobile Phones to Improve Educational Outcomes: An Analysis of Evidence from Asia

Despite improvements in educational indicators, such as enrolment, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality education in developing countries, particularly in rural and remote regions. In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed in new information and communication technologies (ICTs), mobile phones being one example. This article reviews the evidence of the role of mobile phone-facilitated mLearning in contributing to improved educational outcomes in the developing countries of Asia by exploring the results of six mLearning pilot projects that took place in the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh. In particular, this article examines the extent to which the use of mobile phones helped to improve educational outcomes in two specific ways: 1) in improving access to education, and 2) in promoting new learning. Analysis of the projects indicates that while there is important evidence of mobile phones facilitating increased access, much less evidence exists as to how mobiles promote new learning.
Keywords: Mobile phones; mobile learning; distance learning; educational outcomes; information and communication technologies; new learning