Orange has announced an ad-supported content trial on Orange World (it’s portal). The trial will apparently “give 800,000 of Orange’s 15.6 million mobile customers the option to download music to their mobile phone for free or at a discounted rate” – so it’s definitely a trial, but big trees grow from small seeds, right? The…
Orange UK Reveals Research on Mobile Media Consumption & Advertising
Orange UK has commissioned a research project to find out how mobile is changing the media landscape – the results of which have been given to MobiAD News. You can visit the site here for the full story, but the highlights are: people who access media regularly tend to do so for just over 3…
Rivals race to bring Olympic Games to Mobile
An industry expert has said that the 2012 games will “do for mobile TV what the Coronation did for early television” – so says Phil Lehmann, senior product manager of T-Mobile’s mobile TV division. In the meanwhile, MNOs are deciding which Mobile TV techology to put their money and time behind. Part of that technology…
Orange UK: Animals + Web = ?
Orange has updated it’s tariffs (based on various animals, no less) to try and encourage more internet usage. Apparently “Dolphin 40” has been given the biggest update, with unlimited free evening/weekend net interweb access, plus unlimited usage of the popular social network site Bebo. If you are looking for more info on these changes,…
Update: more on the O2 / Network rail deal…
Mobile TV is doing big things in France, if you believe the numbers being touted about. As I posted before, Orange announced in Dec07 that they had 1m Moby TV subs. SFR claimed to have 350K. Well now, Canal Plus claims it has more than 250K! The total from these stats apparently represents a…
UK: Orange confirms HTC Shift incoming
The HTC Shift comes to Orange UK at the end of the month, according to the Register. For those (few, I suspect) of you that don’t know, it’s a UMPC running Windows Vista Business Edition – with hardware including a trick keyboard, that HTC seem so keen on. Apparently Orange are going to range this…
UK: Vodafone and Orange to share mast sites
Vodafone and Orange have announced plans to share mast sites, whilst still competing with one another – the joint sites are apparently due to start later this year. Both 2G and 3G coverage will be involved in the scheme, and it is understood this will mean about 15% less sites – equivalent to about 3000…
Orange look at impact of techology on football
I don’t think I’ve posted a story about Mobile and Football being related, before – there’s always a first! Apparently the Orange Future of Football Report states that technology will infiltrated the beautiful game much sooner than we think. There are a number of potentially applicable areas for mobile technology to be utilised – highlights…
BlackBerry Professional Software now available via Orange Spain
Orange Spain and Research In Motion (RIM) recently launched the BlackBerry Professional Software in Spain to allow small and medium sized businesses to manage their own mail server and access office information whilst on the move. It’s not my intent to talk about the RIM’s solution here, there’s more about it on their website. Rather…
Update: ‘cell’ is available on all UK networks!
Update: Yesterday you may have read my story about O2 subs being able to access the new ‘cell’ TV series, made exclusively for Mobile. I also told you that it’s looking pretty darn good indeed, with great production quality, and that it’s something you should check out -well now, more of you can! Sean, the…