We are proud to announce that Yellows Best Limited has been in business for 10 years!
Our mission of “Keeping Customers Operational” has remained the same since we began in 2015, by providing consultancy services, spares and repairs to assist operations and maintenance of old legacy infrastructure and new networks.
Going forward, we aim to continue to provide what our customers require, whilst streamlining our business undertakings. As part of this development transformation, we are moving our website to a new hosting location: yellowsbestltd.wordpress.com
This conveniently presents a near identical look and feel for our service descriptions and news blog, and provides updated company contact details. We look forward to welcoming your further enquiries.
This month there is a fabulous exhibition at the Beverley Art Gallery, great fun for all those who enjoy the wonderful colourful plastic construction bricks!
Brick History is a journey through pivotal moments in world history, modeled in LEGO® bricks by Warren Elsmore and his team of artists.
Forget dry lists of kings or endless battles – this is history brought to life at a relatable, human level, featuring key figures from Mozart to Martin Luther King, scientific discoveries from the Big Bang to DNA, and recent history from mobile phones to the moon landings.
@YellowsBestLtd we would love to hear about your events, projects or challenges. If we can be of any assistance with your services and solutions requirements, let us know !
Congratulations to the England Women’s football team for their fantastic success, winning the UEFA Euro 2025 competition, for the second time!
A thoroughly entertaining event, enjoyed by a growing international audience. The standard of competitive play was high and England needed strong commitment along with some good fortune to carve out their deserved victory.
What it means for old and new mobiles and services
These days most people are used to upgrading their smartphones every couple of years or so to the latest offering. So they shouldn’t have any issues with the switch off of 3G networks, as the newest devices are all likely to support 4G and 5G services. But that isn’t universally the case for old products.
There exists a significant minority of ‘legacy’ users, loyal fans of some outstanding older mobile phones.
Everything from the basic Nokia 1100 with its amazing 400-hour between charges standby time which sold 250 million units to become the world’s biggest selling electronic device. See the handy ‘Brick’ 1100 emulator if you somehow missed it.
Through to advanced and sophisticated gadgets so well built, once considered the finest of their type, that they have continued to find use to this day. Such as:
The Nokia N95 with its 5MP camera, GPS, mapping capabilities and innovative dual-sliding ‘multimedia computer’ form-factor, hailed as one of the best mobile phone devices.
Nokia N95
The Nokia E90 ‘Communicator’ representing the final development of the PDA style full QWERTY keyboard clamshell series of ‘Communicator‘ products which arguably initiated the ‘smartphone’ concept way back in 1996
Nokia 9210, 9500 & E90 ‘Communicators’
The Nokia E71 (along with variants E61, E63, E72 and E5) providing an ultra compact QWERTY keyboard messaging phone aimed at business users and considered one of the finest of Nokia devices
Nokia E71
The Nokia N8 touch screen based smartphone which was considered at the time as the best camera phone, and its successor, the Nokia 808 ‘Pureview’ is still recognised as having the greatest resolution of any cameraphone with its 41MP image sensor.
Nokia N8
The technology revolution
In retrospect, these were the pinnacle of ‘mobile phones’; devices that commenced with basic telephony and had various functions added, including text messaging, contacts, email, clock, calculator, a camera and GPS.
What replaced them were the ‘internet slates’; products whose heritage came from personal computing, and generated an explosion in applications development providing productivity, news, social media and games. This ‘revolution’ has resulted in ‘voice’ being just another ‘app’ provided as part of the data bundle, rather than the central purpose of use. But for some, a ‘mobile phone’ is all they need to carry to keep in contact whilst out and about, preferring to keep ‘computing tasks’ separate and best served on a laptop or desktop computer.
Technology updates , business developments and shifts in consumer preferences couldn’t alone completely ‘kill off’ these iconic products from yesteryear. This is despite the end of production and support of old Nokia phones and subsequent Windows Mobile devices, or indeed anything else to rival today’s iPhone / Android duopoly. Despite Nokia’s overall demise, next generation ‘Nokia’ branded mobile phones are now made and sold by HMD and certain software functionality has lived on, such as ’Nokia maps’ which now exists as ‘HERE WeGo’
HERE WeGo maps & navigation application
The ‘end of the road’ for old hardware
But now finally the end of the road is in sight for the old mobile phone hardware.
The ‘issue’ is the industry and government ‘switch off’ of the old 3G networks, already actioned in the U.K. by EE, Three and Vodafone in 2024 and to be completed by Virgin Media O2 in 2025. This means that mobile phones that don’t support 4G will cease to be able to use data services and functionality. The Mobile U.K. guide confirms this switch off timetable.
Perhaps confusingly, some 2G networks are to operate for awhile longer. Although Virgin Media O2 plans to close their 2G service this year and Three never launched 2G in the first place, EE and Vodafone have no plans yet to close 2G before the agreed deadline of 2033. Though this could change and services may end much earlier.
So this means basic telephony and text messaging should continue for now to be available on legacy hardware. And it’s possible that some networking functionality may be accessed using WiFi, if supported by certain old phone models.
This is the tenth year of YellowsBestLtd supporting Customers with requirements for #Business Development, #Enterprise Support, #Sustainable Solutions, #Technologies and Products.
We would love to hear your experiences regarding legacy and new devices and infrastructure; please get in touch with any enquiries for Consultancy, Spares, Repairs and Support services. We hope to be of assistance!
The summer of sport continues with the fabulous event that is the Olympics, bringing together competitors from nations from all over the world. This time hosted in Paris, showcasing the widest diverse collection of the most popular together with some lesser known sporting activities.
Following our favourites!
We are keeping abreast of the action from France, and have in particular have been impressed with performances by athletes in TeamGB. Here are their medal successes (so far):
Rowing (men’s Coxless Four): Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge, Freddie Davidson
Rowing (women’s 8): Annie Campbell-Orde, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Eve Stewart, Hattie Taylor
Sailing (women’s windsurfing): Emma Wilson
Skateboarding (women’s park): Sky Brown
Triathlon (women’s individual): Beth Potter
Triathlon (mixed relay): Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sam Dickinson, Beth Potter
Weightlifting (women’s +81kg): Emily Campbell
Whatever the sport you’re interested in and whoever you follow, good luck and best wishes for an exciting and interesting competition.
Keeping Customers Operational
@YellowsBestLtd continues with our aim of Keeping Customers Operational by seeking out new products and legacy equipment spares to maintain new and well-established networks. Recent enquiries have been fulfilled supplying refurbished and surplus stocks of equipment cards, as well as built-to-order cables and connectors to suit exact requirements.
We would welcome any enquiries for the supply of similar or alternative parts, or support services to provide hardware repairs. Please get in touch; we look forward to hearing from you!
As the end of another successful year approaches and the bringing of the New Year is in sight, I would like to give thanks to all customers and suppliers who have taken an interest and supported YellowsBest throughout 2023, and look forward to being of assistance again very soon.
Have a wonderful festive season and enjoy the celebrations with your family and friends!
@YellowsBestLtd has been assisting with “Keeping Customers Operational” for eight years now. Over the time we have been in business, we have supported our Customers with Services and Solutions.
We provide a range of Business Development professional Services, such as Consultancy and Value Added Resale.
We help Customers to keep their infrastructure networks operational by undertaking a range of EnterpriseSupport activities, including O&M, training and Reverse logistics.
We ensure Sustainable Systems by sourcing Solutions to assist customers maintain the operational status of their infrastructure.
We support deployed systems by providing hardware repair and software corrections and suppling spares or functional replacements.
We offer various new and ‘legacy’ equipment Technologies and a wide range of infrastructure, telecoms and other Products, seeking out new, surplus and refurbished equipment spares equipment cards, as well as supplying built-to-order cables and connectors to suit exact requirements.
The Market Sectors of the diverse organisations we assist include Utilities, Transport and Private and Public Operators who operate and maintain their own network infrastructure, providing them with Solutions to do more whilst reaping cost-benefits.
We hope to continue to be of assistance for many further years. Please contact us to let us know how we can assist you to keep your systems operational . We look forward to hearing from you.
It’s a good time for watching sport, not least the arrival of the Women’s Football (Soccer) World Cup.
@Yellowsbestltd we will be following the competition with interest, and naturally following our home side! Whoever you’re supporting, good luck and best wishes for an entertaining and enjoyable event.
Wen you have time between work commitments and leisure time, we would be keen to hear from you should you have any views or news, or indeed any consultancy, solutions or support services requirements. Please get in touch to let us know how things are with you and if we can help.
Although the installation of fibre broadband services have been rolling out across the UK for some time now, there still seems much confusion relating to the various services on offer.
@YellowsBestLtd has been receiving ‘Fibre To The Premises’ (FTTP – sometimes referred to as ‘Fibre To The Home’ FTTH) from @Gigaclear since our formation in 2015. We are therefore able to provide this brief summary of our experiences and comparison of the types possible and their capabilities:
Full Fibre (FTTP) – fibre runs directly to the office or house, giving the fastest and most reliable speeds. This is what we had installed by Gigaclear; a dedicated fibre line into a fibre modem which can be directly connected to using ethernet cable or via a wifi router.
Part Fibre or ‘Fibre to the Cabinet’ (FTTC) – fibre runs to the neighbourhood cabinet, and then data runs over copper lines into the building. The transmission speed and bandwidth is therefore reduced in comparison to Full Fibre. This is the type of on offer to many consumers where the local telephony provider is not able to rollout fibre replacement for the ‘last mile’ of copper connection.
Copper or non-fibre – the traditional, existing telephone lines are used to provide the broadband service. This naturally provides the slowest speed and least data bandwidth. Many communities still rely on this as the only means of internet connection, since no fibre broadband deployment has been made.
The net result is that with Full Fibre, it is possible to receive previously unheard of speeds. Indeed the maximum service on offer is so fast, it outstrips the requirements of most homes and businesses. It is therefore typical that a reduced service is selected purely for cost-saving purposes.
Our own experiences have found that the Ultrafast 300 service from Gigaclear to be more than adequate for our needs. This is a screen shot of an actual speed test of the service we are being provided with:
In many cases the ‘full fibre’ service we have chosen, approximately a third the speed of the maximum possible, is still at least 10x faster than part or no fibre services. Not only is it faster, it provides a very stable connection less prone to interference and service outages. Thought due to network backhauling connections, is not unknown for interruptions to be possible; fortunately these are relatively rare.
The main difficulty for most businesses and homes remains the lack of universal provision. Whereas we have no reservations in recommending Gigaclear’s full-fibre service, we recognise this is not available everywhere. It is just fortunate for us that rural communities like ours was prioritised in their initial service rollout.
@YellowsBestLtd our mission is in “Keeping Customers Operational”. We’re always keen to enhance our range of #business services, increase the #enterprise infrastructure we support and expand our mix of #sustainable solutions we offer for supply and maintenance of new and legacy #technologies and products for our customers.
Please get in touch to help us understand your management services or solutions requirements, whether you’re implementing new systems or maintaining existing infrastructure networks to serve your operational business needs.
