Telecoms

  • T-Mobile and Orange to create joint venture

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    The owners of UK mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange have announced they’re in exclusive negotiations to combine the two operations in a new 50:50 joint venture. The resulting entity will have around 37% of the UK market with more than 28 million customers.

  • HTC Touch2 coming October 2009

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    HTC yesterday unveiled their newest Windows phone, the Touch2 which includes Windows Mobile 6.5® and new services like Microsoft My Phone and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The touch-based handset includes a variety of HTC enhancements including TouchFLO, an enhanced user interface that includes integrated weather updates and quick touch access to a variety of the…

  • Virgin Trains to offer Wi-Fi access

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    Virgin’s West Coast Main Line Pendolino trains are to offer high speed wireless internet access after the company reached a deal with T-Mobile to deploy their Wi-Fi HotSpot service.

  • Vodafone starts HTC Magic pre-ordering

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    Vodafone has opened pre-ordering of the HTC Magic – the second Google Android powered smartphone to be available to UK customers. The handset’s release follows T-Mobile’s success with the HTC-produced G1.

  • 15GB for £15 – 3's new mobile internet offering

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    3 has announced a 15GB for £15 mobile broadband package which it says will take the worry out of mobile surfing. The company says the allowance is the equivalent of 15,000 emails, 150 hours of web surfing, 10 half hour video downloads and 480 four minute music tracks.

  • New Android phone from Vodafone and HTC

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    Vodafone has announced it is to offer the HTC Dream, the second mobile powered by the Android operating system from Google, exclusively across Europe. The phone is described as a “tablet-style device” will be available in white in the UK, Spain and France, black in Germany and in both colours in Italy.