Spanish carrier Airtel, a recent acquisition of Vodafone, was getting royally stomped through unfair practices by dominator Telefonica back in ’99, and had successfully won their Supreme Court complaint in 2006. To date, however, they still haven’t received compensation, which could be worth upwards of €670 million ($940 million). Vodafone says it still might take…
Amobee signs Global Framework deal with Vodafone…
Having pulled in a round of investment from some big names such as Cisco and Moto, and announced a “Global Mobile Advertising Alliance” with Telefonica O2, Amobee Media Systems is now announcing that it has signed a Global Framework Agreement (‘GFA’) with Vodafone, the world’s leading international mobile telecommunication group. The Framework essentially establishes the…
Vodafone UK launches Connect To Friends Facebook app
Vodafone UK is trialling a new service to enable users to send text messages from their Facebook profile to friends. Vodafone Connect to Friends lets Facebook users send texts and picture messages without having to switch from PC to mobile simply by installing the ‘Vodafone Connect to Friends’ application to their Facebook profile. The application…
UK Recap: who, what, and where for the Blackberry Bold
As Dusan previously reported (here and here), the Blackberry Bold 9000 (RIMs new HSPA email uber-phone) is now for sale with Orange and Vodafone in the UK. But where else can you get it? Well apparently, 3 is going to be carrying it in November. That only leaves T-Mobile and O2, who we’ve not really…
Vodafone prepped to sell Dell Mini 9
PC Pro is reporting that Vodafone has signed a deal with Dell to sell it’s Mini 9 Laptops with integrated mobile broadband only a day or so after the “netbook” was launched! The XP-loaded Mini 9 costs £299 and features an 8.9in screen, 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB solid state drive. There’s…
Blackberry Bold now available for free from Vodafone UK
Vodafone has officially announced the BlackBerry Bold. The best-BlackBerry-to-date is available on special promotion from free on the Anytime 600 data plan for 35 GB a month with a 2-year contract. The plan [Anytime 600] includes 600 minutes of talk-time, unlimited texts and data/Internet access with a 500 MBs per month “fair usage policy.” Alternatively,…
Option ships HSPA ExpressCard exclusively for Vodafone
Option recently announced that it has started shipping a new wireless broadband ExpressCard exclusively developed for Vodafone. The new ExpressCard is designed to achieve peak HSDPA download speeds of 7.2 Mbps with HSUPA uploads at up to 5.76 Mbps. First shipments have been delivered to Elisa, the Vodafone partner network in Finland and the world’s…
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 “coming soon” to Vodafone
We’ve already reported the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 will be hitting United Kingdom in October. Now we have the real proof to show you. Actually, we don’t know the exact release date, but Vodafone’s coming soon section has a page dedicated to the Sony Ericsson’s super smartphone, suggesting we’ll have more to report about this…
iPhone 3G coming to India for $700 on August 22!
And you thought you paid a lot for your launch-day iPhone 8GB? Think again. As expected, Apple is bringing the iPhone 3G to India, through Vodafone and Airtel, with an ginormous price-tag of approximately $700 for the 8GB iPhone 3G or about $825 for the 16GB iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G will launch in India…
Vodafone completes the acquisition of 70% in Ghana Telecom
Another market is conquered as far as Vodafone is concerned. Following their announcement that they will acquire 70% of Ghana Telecom, the Big Red carrier has announced that the deal is done. Ghanaian Parliament cleared the papers and Vodafone agreed to pay $900 million (483 million GBP). The deal is done on a debt-free, cash-free…