Vodafone UK recently made some improvements to its mobile internet service, but the changes are causing havok with some web sites. “When you now request a website over Vodafone Live your request is intercepted by Vodafone’s server, which downloads the content for you and converts it to suit your model of phone before sending it on. In most cases that’s fine, but where the receiving server is expecting a direct connection to the phone (such as many mCommerce sites, or sites that like to do their own handset optimisation), everything stops working”, reports The Register. The problem was sorted out for Bango, but smaller players may have more difficulty getting through the system.

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