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We have (almost) good news for Orange Samsung Galaxy S II customers in the UK. You will get your serving of Ice Cream Sandwich, but you’ll have to wait for April (and we don’t know when exactly in April you’ll get it). Yeah, you’re probably sorry you’re not on Three which customers are already running…
Cellular customers in Europe will soon be paying less for roaming charges incurred while roaming in other European countries. A preliminary deal has been struck between the European Parliament and representatives of the Council and the European Commission that will set EU roaming rules that carriers must abide by starting July 1st. The agreement will…
France will get LTE network(s) later this year, with the country’s leading mobile operator Orange announcing its 4G pilot for June, starting in the city of Marseille. The France Telecom-owned carrier has a combination of two frequencies (2.6GHz and 800MHz) for its LTE services, and will use the network infrastructure supplied by Alcatel-Lucent. Aside from…
Orange and Visa announced that Orange Money customers in Africa and the Middle East will soon have access to Visa prepaid account features inside their Orange Money accounts. This update to the service will be introduced in select markets by the end of 2012. By doing so, Orange is connecting existing mobile money subscribers to…
Intel makes some of the top desktop processors, and now the manufacturer is aiming again for the mobile market. The company will be using its Intel Atom Z2460 processor, which is optimized for Android, to go up against mobile leader ARM. One of the first carriers to sell an Intel phone will be Orange, which will carry an Atom powered, Android smartphone later this year.…
British market leader Everything Everywhere said it will start offering 4G LTE services by the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval. The company, which is a 50-50 joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, is also upgrading its network to 21Mb/s HSPA+ technology as we speak with the goal to end the process by…
The rumor is that Deutsche Telekom may be looking to exit the British market by selling its 50% stake in Everything Everywhere. The joint-venture was established with France Telecom’s Orange, which in turns owns the other half of the company. According to Bloomberg News, German telecom giant is still in early stages of deciding whether…
Companies conduct surveys all the time to figure out what exactly their customers want. Orange UK recently did just such a survey, and in it they just so happened to reveal the Orange London. Forget about the terrible name for a second, it’s basically Intel’s Medfield reference platform, which we saw last month at the…
Some time ago we told you that Orange San Francisco 2 will get a white sibling? Well it’s finally available with a number of Orange plans, while PAYG version will (most likely) be released in the next couple of weeks (or so we think). The cheapest plan starts at 10.50 GBP per month and includes…
It’s like everyone’s “trading Oranges” these days. Just recently, we’ve seen Three Austria acquiring the local branch of Orange and now Partner Communications is looking to sell its big stake (44.5%) in Orange Israel. The company has apparently already hired investment bankers to look at options to get as much money as possible for the…