Vodafone and O2 recently announced that they’ll launch the third of LG’s black label series of devices, the KF750 also known as the Secret in the British market. The 5 megapixel camera equipped device has a slider form factor, and among other things sports the QVGA screen, HSDPA, Bluetooth, media player and a microSD memory…
Vodafone now owns 100% of German fixed-line carrier Arcor
Vodafone announced that it now owns 100% of German fixed-line carrier Arcor. The Big Red giant paid 474 million EUR in cash to get the 26.4% interest from Deutsche Bahn AG and Deutsche Bank AG. With full ownership of Arcor, the leading alternative fixed-line carrier in Germany with 2.6 million DSL lines, representing 14% market…
Vodafone acquires ZYB; Proves it’s not a dumb pipe?
Vodafone announced that it has agreed to acquire 100% of Denmark-based ZYB for 31.5 million EUR. We’ve already wrote about ZYB in the past– to recap, it’s a social network and an online management tool that enables mobile phone users to back-up and share their phone contact and calendar information online. The acquisition of ZYB…
UK: Vodafone outreaches mobile broadband network
Vodafone UK is extending it’s HSPA coverage for mobile broadband to 6 new cities – Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. This will give users downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mb/s, with up to 1.8 Mb/s on the uplink. Right now, HSPA is only available in London and major UK airports, so it’s…
Vodafone Chief: VF not a dumb pipe
Arun Sarin (Vodafone CEO ) has said any content providers wishing to launch D2C (direct to consumer) services will always have to work with Vodafone. Apparently, speaking to the Financial Times, Sarin stated that the ‘unique gift’ of billing secures it and other operators against becoming “dumb pipe” for data – for examples from those…
Vodafone to offer iPhone in ten markets: Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey
Following “the Canada announcement,” Vodafone issued a press release saying it scored a deal with Apple to introduce iPhone to ten other countries: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic,…
China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone team up to establish Joint Innovation Lab
Three giants — China Mobile, Softbank, and Vodafone — have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to “promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services.” The JIL will focus on the rapidly growing areas of mobile internet services, such as mobile widgets. Initially, the JIL plans to develop a platform for…
UK: Vodafone: knocks 10 squid off tariffs…
Vodafone UK is offering a £10/month discount on two of their tariffs (£35/month and £40/month) when customers sign up for 18 months – they have even done a bit of research to show why this is so important! Apparently, 52% of us Brits say that on at least one occasion, £10 had made a significant…
Vodafone to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2020
In a recent release, Vodafone announced that by 2020 it will reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% against its 2006/7 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. In addition, the Big Red mobile operator will be focusing on developing products and services which will help customers limit their own emissions. The idea here is to leverage improvements…
Swiss to get access to more TV channels
A new service is to be added to Swisscom’s mobile TV menu – Bluewin TV mobile will available on the new DVB-H network that is being rolled out, giving a quality that is claimed to be as good as home TV sets, with customer having access to 20 channels! Swisscom already has a pedigree in…