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Articles tagged with: Orange and Vodafone
Standards Based Solution for Voice and SMS Services Over LTE Announced
A gang of telecoms companies have jointly defined the preferred way to ensure the smooth introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks worldwide. The companies involved are AT&T, orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. more
Related Tags: sms, lte, at&t, -telefonica, teliasonera, verizon, alcatel-lucent, ericsson, nokia--siemens-networks, nokia, samsung, sony-ericsson, broadband, interoperability
Opinion piece by Steven Hartley, Senior Analyst Ovum
O2's exclusivity agreement with Apple in the UK for the iPhone is coming to an
end, as the device is to be available on both orange and Vodafone. O2 and the UK's
two non-iPhone mobile network operators will undoubtedly need to find a
response. However, the shift in Apple's strategy highlighted by the
announcement means that other markets are likely to follow suit.
more
Related Tags: apple-iphone, o2, base, UK
Spanish Regulator Approves Lower Mobile Termination Rates
Spain's telecoms regulator, the Commission for the Telecommunications Market (CMT) has approved cuts of between 40% for Telefónica Móviles, Vodafone and orange and 50% for Xfera for their mobile termination rates. more
Related Tags: telefonica-moviles, xfera, cmt, mobile-termination-rates, base, Spain
Virgin Mobile Tops UK Mobile Broadband Tests
The results are now available for the first Mobile Broadband Genie Road Trip Awards. The exercise directly pitted dongles provided by six of the UK's mobile broadband suppliers (O2, orange, 3, T-mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone) against each other on a 350-mile rail journey over two days. more
Related Tags: o2, 3, t-mobile, virgin-media, 3g, dongle, 3g-modem, broadband-genie, UK
Contract Awarded for Spanish Mobile Number Portability
The Spanish mobile operators are reported to have awarded a contract to local form, Indra to manage their mobile number portability platform from February 2010. The contract is worth €4.7 million over a three year period. more
Related Tags: indra, cmt, mobile-number-portability, telefonica, yoigo, number-portability, Spain
Vodafone Sees Loss of UK Market Share and Lower ARPUs
The UK added over 3m new mobile connections during 2008, to take the total base to 75.75m, equivalent to 124% penetration. The market is one of the most competitive in Europe, if not the world, with five established MNOs and several MVNOs, of which the most successful are Virgin and the increasingly ambitious Tesco. more
Related Tags: tesco, virgin-mobile, mvno, hutchison-3g-uk, t-mobile, iphone, o2, ict, eu, arpu, 3g, , tim, h3g, lte, 3m, UK
EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
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Mobile Data Revenue Will Double in Spain's Telecom Market by 2014
Despite Spain's pronounced economic slowdown, its telecom market will see mobile data revenue double within the next five years, driven by an uninterrupted expansion of mobile data and Internet-based services, according to a report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: , sim, mobile-data, eu, mobile-broadband, pyramid-research, Spain
There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market
The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the European market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, sim, social-networking, eu, 3-uk, mvno, o2, tim, wind, lte, outsourcing, ovi, iden, telefonica, yoigo, 3, movistar, play, UK
Vodafone Found to Offer UK's Lowest Roaming Data Download Charges
A study carried out by price comparison website, Broadband-Expert, has revealed massive discrepancies between the UK's top 5 mobile broadband providers for data usage abroad. orange was the most expensive, charging £3.94 per Mb inside the EU and £6.32 per Mb outside the EU. Vodafone were found to be the cheapest provider, charging £9.99 for a day's use of up to at 50Mb inside the EU (which equates to 20p per Mb). more
Related Tags: t-mobile, eu, o2, ovi, mobile-broadband, UK