ORANGE OUTLINES VISION OF MOBILE BROADBAND AND FIRST STEPS IN DELIVERY OF CONVERGED SERVICES orange press - ... their Orange 3G handset, Wanadoo visio and Telecom MaLigne visio.
Orange France will be launching its EDGE network later this year meaning that over 80% of the population will be covered with mobile broadband in 2005. The city of Cannes will be the first to benefit from the high-speed capacity of EDGE as Orange France will be launching the service there shortly.
Orange has continued w ... read more
Vodafone Italy makes first data call with HSDPA vodafone press - ... (HSDPA, High Speed Downlink Packet Access).
Thanks to HSDPA a speed of 1.5 Mbps was reached. In the near future, this will enable Vodafone to provide new services to its customers for mobile phones and fastest internet connections.
"The positive outcome of the first HSDPA data call demonstrates the advanced state of our UMTS technology and confirms Vodafone's leadership and commitment to ... read more
The Haves and the Have Nots o2 press - ... (66%) do not. The survey also paints a stark picture in terms of regional breakdown. 52% of businesses in Dublin have broadband but this falls to 20% in Connacht/Ulster, 26% in the rest of Leinster and 29% in Munster.
"These findings suggest a worrying scenario which was recently highlighted in the Forfas broadband benchmarking study," said Paul Whelan, Chief Financial Officer, O2 Ire ... read more
From 2nd January 2006, France Telecom cuts the price of fixed-line to mobile calls for all its customers france telecom press - ... from:
• 15.2 to 10.9 euro cents at peak times (1) to Orange and SFR mobiles, corresponding to a 28.2% reduction;
• 19.9 to 14.6 euro cents at peak times (1) to Bouygues Telecom mobiles, corresponding to a 26.6 % reduction;
The connection charge remains unchanged at 17.9 euro cents, inclusive of VAT.
A reduction of up to 30.3% in the price per minute with the Atout ... read more