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Articles tagged with: Vodafone Uk
Free Facebook for Vodafone UK Customers
Vodafone UK says that it is to make mobile internet access to the Facebook website free of charge from the end of this week for a single week. Giving customers free access to Facebook is part of Vodafone UK's Free Friday series, which launched with Free Mobile Internet in May to mark the start of a flat daily rate of just 50p to browse the mobile internet, and continued with Free Music Friday in June when Vodafone became the first mobile operator in the UK to launch DRM free music. more
Related Tags: facebook, laptop, drm, free-mobile, UK
Carphone Warehouse to Resume Sales of Vodafone Contract Phones
The UK mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse (CPW) has agreed a deal with Vodafone UK to start offering the network operator's contract (postpaid) tariffs to its customers again. Vodafone terminated earlier sales through CPW in last 2006 in favour of an exclusive deal with rival retailer, Phones 4U. more
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Vodafone Reported to be Considering Bid for T-Mobile UK
More rumours about the future of T-Mobile UK emerged today in The Times newspaper with a report that Vodafone is considering making an offer to buy the company. T-Mobile and Vodafone declined to comment last night. However, one source close to the situation told The Times that Vodafone was examining its options. more
Related Tags: t-mobile-uk, telekom, UK
Vodafone launches femtocells in the UK
Opinion piece by Steven Hartley, mobile senior analyst at Ovum
The Vodafone Access Gateway is purely targeted at improving coverage and no
attempt has been made to dress it up - there are no femtocell-specific tariffs,
no bonus minutes, texts or data allowances. more
Related Tags: femtocell, femtocells, opex, UK
First O2 and Vodafone UK shared site live
Following the announcement in March this year of the agreement between O2 and Vodafone UK to share network infrastructure in the UK, both companies confirmed today that the first shared site has gone live. more
Vodafone UK Backtracks on Staff Bonuses
Angry Vodafone staff are reported to have forced a management climb down over the cancelled annual bonuses - which will now be reinstated. In March, the company announced that its UK staff salaries would be frozen this year, and that bonuses would be cancelled. However, while hit by write-downs, Vodafone still managed to report a significant profit of £4.1 billion. more
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Vodafone UK to Offer Borderless Roaming For Summer Promotion
Vodafone UK has announced that it is abolishing roaming charges between June and August this year - allowing calls made and SMS/MMS's sent from 43 countries (and 2 UK territories) to be charged at the same rate as their home tariff. more
Vodafone Offers SMS Access to Twitter in the UK
Fast growing micro-blogging service, Twitter has announced via its own "macro-blog" that Vodafone UK has resumed allowing updates via SMS. Anyone in the world can update Twitter via SMS but receiving tweets on a mobile phone has been restricted to North America due to the costs of providing the service. more
Related Tags: sms, twitter, rsa, ict, vodafone, tim, ovi, iden, idc, bell-mobility, bell, UK
Mobile Workers Consider Company Laptops Their Own Property
A study commissioned by Vodafone UK has revealed that people view their work mobiles and laptops differently when out of the office, potentially exposing a business to security threats. Personal use of laptops and mobile devices goes unregulated once out of the office and can lead to a change in behaviour from the employee, following research sampling more than 1,000 business people. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, 3g, ict, itu, vodafone, iden, netbooks, personal, laptop, UK
Orange and Vodafone Outsource their UK Network Management
Two of the UK's mobile networks have separately - but on the same day - announced network maintenance outsourcing deals. Orange UK has given a 5-year contract to Nokia Siemens Networks, while Vodafone UK granted a 7-year contract to Ericsson. more
Related Tags: orange, 3g, nokia, vodafone, outsourcing, ericsson, nokia-siemens-networks, siemens, orange-uk, nokia-siemens, UK