Articles tagged with: Vodafone and Orange

Vodafone and Orange to Deploy Shared Landline Fibre Network

­vodafone and Orange have jointly announced plans to co-invest in fibre to the home deployment in Spain, with the intention to reach 6 million households and workplaces across 50 major cities by September 2017.  more

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Vodafone Loses Scottish Government Contract to Orange

­Orange UK says that it has been selected by the Scottish Government to provide mobile services to 10 bodies within the Scottish public sector.  more

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Spanish Networks Collaborate on Launching RCS-e Services

­Spain's three main mobile networks, Orange, Telefónica, and vodafone have jointly announced the upcoming launch of RCS-e service, which will enable mobile phone customers to use new multimedia communication services on any network and with any smartphone.  more

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Romania Extends GSM Licenses by One Year

­The Romanian government has extended the existing GSM licenses held by vodafone and Orange for an extra year, until the end of 2012.  more

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O2 Tops UK Mobile Broadband Speed/Latency Tests

­The percentage of UK households relying entirely on mobile broadband for their internet access has more than doubled over the past year to 7% of the UK, with 17% using mobile broadband for at least some of their internet access needs.  more

Related Tags: o2, t-mobile, ofcom, 3g, mobile-broadband, 3, epitiro, 3g-coverage, UK


Three UK Might Have to Sell to a Larger Rival to Survive

­Hutchison 3G UK (Three), the country's smallest of five mobile networks has warned that it may have to merge with another network operator if it is unable to secure sufficient radio spectrum in next year's 4G license auction.  more

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Spanish Networks Face Investigation over Wholesale Messaging Costs

­Spain's National Competition Commission (CNC) has opened an investigation into the country's three largest mobile networks, Telefonica, vodafone and Orange after it said that wholesale pricing applied to SMS and MMS messages could be excessive.  more

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UK Operators Testing Mobile TV Over Unused TDD Radio Spectrum

Three UK based mobile networks: O2, Orange, and vodafone have announced plans to jointly test Mobile TV services in central London and Slough (O2 headquarters) from this October. The multi-operator pilot will assess how mobile broadcast services can be deployed using shared network infrastructure.  more

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Deutsche Telekom Tops European Green Operators Matrix Ranking

Deutsche Telekom has been ranked at the top of the latest Operator Matrix released by ABI Research. Orange Group and vodafone Europe claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of "green" operators in Europe.  more

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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

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