Archive for the ‘Vodafone’ Category
Monday, May 9th, 2011
SMS JustTextGiving launched
Vodafone just made donating money to charity all that more straight forward by partnering with Just Giving to launch JustTextGiving - the UK’s first free text donation service.
Charities will be able to set up a personalised 6 digit VIC code, that generous texters can then use to make ...
Posted in Other News, Vodafone |
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Mobile payment systems may be gaining only gradual steam in the US, but over on the other side of the pond, Vodafone UK has launched a broad new campaign to integrate smartphone technology where Londoners may need it most -- in the back of taxis. As of today, many cab ...
Posted in Other News, Vodafone |
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Vodafone Europe has confirmed that, for the first time, mobile internet revenue for the carrier has exceeded SMS revenues. The news marks a significant milestone in the European mobile segment, which has historically seen particularly strong SMS revenues.
The data revenue news was revealed at the launch of the HTC Sensation, HTC’s newest Android ...
Posted in 3G, Android, HTC, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Internet, Smartphones, Vodafone |
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Sells off French assets to Vivendi
Vodafone is selling its minority shareholding in French operator SFR, netting €7.95bn by flogging 44 per cent of SFR and giving Vivendi complete ownership.
Vivendi already owns 56 per cent of mobile, fixed-line, broadband and TV supplier SFR, which boasts 20 million customers, but once the ...
Posted in Other News, Vodafone |
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Ofcom, the UK version of the FCC, is currently sitting on two fat bands of prime 4G spectrum, at 800MHz and 2.6GHz, but it won't be doing so for long. This morning has seen an announcement from the independent regulator that it's looking to sell off those airwaves to the ...
Posted in 3 / Three, 3G, 4G, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone |
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Silicon Corridor loses mobile coverage
Millions of Vodafone customers were disconnected this morning after an overnight break-in. Calls, text and data are intermittent west of London with a fix in progress.
The failures seem only to be affecting areas just west of London, in the so-called Silicon Corridor. Wales ...
Posted in Vodafone |
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Party like it's 1990
Vodafone believes the time is right for an internet-on-TV box, undaunted by the fact that everyone else has been trying to do the same thing for decades.
Vodafone's new Webbox squeezes the technology into a battery-powered, keyboard-sized device, with an RCA connector and Opera Mini ...
Posted in HI-FI, Internet, Vodafone |
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
CoolSmartPhone have got hold of some exclusive pricing information from Vodafone UK which is based around the network offering 12 month contracts again to customers both on new connections and those who want to upgrade.
This is some exclusive news which has not hit the website yet, and could ...
Posted in Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Vodafone |
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Winds up 2010 on a high
Vodafone ended 2010 on a high note, with an end-of-year profit prediction pushed to £12bn by growth in India and Turkey.
This is only an interim statement, covering the last three months of 2010, but shows that Vodafone is holding its own in Europe (where ...
Posted in Financial, Vodafone |
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Vodafone has said it will make it cheaper for UK customers to use their smartphones when travelling in Europe.
UK customers who travel occasionally can take their domestic data plan abroad for £2 a day.
Frequent travellers can take a price plan that includes data roaming within their existing monthly package, ...
Posted in Vodafone |
