Well . it goes something like this .



The company I work for is US based . but my wife works for a UK company
which is also responsible for some parts of the Vodafone portal. So she told
me that something like this was coming along as they had received a
notification about the changes from them and that their devs had to do some
work to get their services inline with the changes before they went live.



Any how . I kinda forgot about it when suddenly one day (while we're trying
to demo our products to a client) - we start getting the Vodafone branded
red bars all over our mobile site - which is only just a provisioning site
for our mobile application we sell. Next thing I know it also trying to
download a windows cab file onto a Nokia device . so I go check the logs and
see hey . "where's my phones useragent?"



Then I thought I better check it against my wurlf based test site and I get
the same thing . red advertising bars and the same mozilla -linux based
useragent . tried it on Orange using the same device and it worked as per
normal.



And then I searched around online and found the Betavine site . I was like
the 3rd person to post something on their forum.
(http://www.vodafonebetavine.net/web/guest/forums/message_boards/message/446
) . It's been almost a month now and I'm still not on the whitelist . and by
God I'm not going to go make all those silly changes they want you to make .
if I had to tell our head office in the US about this they'd laugh.



All I can say is thank god we don't have UK clients yet .



I explained on the forum that our mobile service doesn't even serv pages for
normal mobile browsers - it's a client/server application in our own custom
markup . and that they are messing with it!



Nuff said . I've said my say and lot's of others have too . Lets see if they
can dig their way out of their hole they have made. *grin*



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From: wmlprogramming@yahoogroups.com [mailto:wmlprogramming@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Luca Passani
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:58 PM
To: wmlprogramming@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [wmlprogramming] more vodafone bs



Andre van den Heever wrote:
> Here here . I've also been on their case about this . and other lame stuff
> the WTE does :P
>
can you share your experience?

Luca





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