So we are back on the case of those UK Mobile Network Operators – this time to take a look at two more of the big four – Orange and T-Mobile: Orange Orange has it’s very distinctive colour scheme, and an awful lot on-screen – it kinda overloaded my tiny brain, but perhaps that’s a…
French Mobile TV subscribers: 1m + 200k = 1.2m!
Screendigest states that as of December 2007, there were 1.2m Mobile TV subscribers, consisting of 1 million Orange subscribers, and 200,000 from SFR. According to their research, that put France ahead of Italy as of Christmas 07. Apparently both Operators saw growth rates of over 40% in Q4 2007, due to them launching unlimited mobile…
3 suffers setback in MNP dispute
3 sufffered a setback on Friday (18th Jan) when a judge ruled it could not have access to it’s rivals documents and emails. 3 hoped this access would prove that Vodaone, O2, Orange, and T-Mobile colluded to slow down the process of customers keeping their number when they ported networks….
Orange Applies for 2 DVB-H Mobile TV Licences (in France)
Orange has applied for 2 DVB-H channels in France, in response to a call for applications made by the French Audiovisual Council. The first is Orange Sports TV, which is already available via 3G Unicast (streaming). Orange Sports TV is a sports information channel, launched originally in September 2007. It is also available now via…
UK: Motorola V8 Luxury now available at Phones4U
Motorola were kind enough to send me an email just now, informing me that the Motorola V8 Luxury is available at Phones4U (one of the well-known high-street retailers in the UK)….
New Orange CEO hires buddies from previous company Virgin Mobile
It’s not unusual to see a slew of structural changes and additions with the installation of a new commander-in-chief, but it’s not everyday that we see the new CEO of a company hire once-colleagues from his previous gig – Virgin Mobile. Orange UK’s new CEO, Tom Alexander has brought a few buddies onboard as senior…
France’s Orange reports 70,000 iPhones sold in first month
Now before you get all crazy with talk about how many handsets your favorite manufacturer sells worldwide every day, or how crappy the iPhone is, or how much you like 3G (check out our 3G shootout, by the way), just remember that the iPhone is Apple very first foray into the mobile phone market. So,…
Unlocked iPhones from France’s Orange still locked – Round 3
Ok, so first we got reports that unlocked iPhones coming out of France’s Orange network were actually only kind of unlocked. You see, the iTunes-based unlocking method for Orange iPhones still requires Apple’s blessing to roam free on non-Apple-sanctioned networks. It looked like Orange and Apple had colluded to give unlocked-iPhone customers a semi-unlocked handset…
Orange unlocked iPhones truly unlocked?
Here’s a little update to our previous report (from iPhone Atlas) that iPhones unlocked by France’s Orange may still be locked to carriers within French borders. iLounge has gotten word from Orange spokesperson Louis-Michel Aymard. We’re going to go with the official claim and believe that unlocked iPhones are truly unlocked for use on any…
Unlocked iPhones in Germany and France still locked, kind of
It turns out that those “unlocked” iPhones from France’s Orange and Germany’s short-lived unlocked iPhone offering from T-Mobile weren’t really all they were cracked up to be. You see, we had cracked them up to be truly unlocked iPhones capable of surfing any network in the world. Truly unlocked iPhones would have been an international…