Vodafone announced its 1Q10 results on Friday and they make very interesting reading. The figures are always a useful guide to how the mobile industry’s faring and Vodafone pointed to many areas of its business that are improving after a couple of indifferent years. Turkey, India and South Africa all improved dramatically in the first [...]
Posted By Shaun Collins On July 27th, 2010
Vodafone’s signed a distribution deal with Warner Music, making it one of the first mobile operators to offer DRM-free music from all the major record labels. The operator’s already signed up Universal Music, Sony Music and EMI.
Although the agreement with Warner Music isn’t earth-shattering, the removal of restrictions from Vodafone’s catalogue is a further step [...]
Posted By Paolo Pescatore On October 2nd, 2009
Looking through the news today, I saw that Orange in the UK has announced a new service called Social Life. This will be a site on the operator’s Orange World portal that allows people to access multiple social networking accounts from one place. This is made by possible by a single log-in.
As I understand it, [...]
Posted By Paolo Pescatore On August 19th, 2009
Watching the Vodafone quarterly results Webcast this week, a few things fell into place for me. The announcement that Vodafone was to scrap roaming charges in some countries for three months started to make more sense.
Initially, I thought including roaming calls in ordinary bundled minutes was a smart reaction to regulators’ complaints about the cost [...]
Posted By Shaun Collins On May 22nd, 2009
It’s day three of Mobile World Congress, and I thought I’d highlight a few of the devices on display. If you’re in Barcelona, you might want to go and take a look at them. For everyone else, we’ve produced short video clips of the products.
I’ve seen plenty of interesting phones from the big names, including [...]
Posted By Ben Wood On February 18th, 2009
Looking at the list of the 14 new members that joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) this month, what struck me was the speed at which the OHA’s Android platform has gathered support since the launch of the T-Mobile G1 phone in October 2008. Although the OHA announced a wide range of members when it [...]
Posted By Geoff Blaber On December 22nd, 2008
Watching market developments over recent weeks I can’t help thinking that the prepaid segment will be the one that makes or breaks the fortunes of mobile device manufacturers and network operators in Western Europe in 2008.
We saw a similar turn of events last year, with the prepaid market seeing renewed impetus as growth in the [...]
Posted By Geoff Blaber On September 11th, 2008
Today Vodafone announced it will offer the iPhone in 10 new countries. The deal gives Apple a much-needed shot in the arm at a time when its international strategy seemed to be faltering.
Vodafone will sell the iPhone “later this year” in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and [...]
Posted By Ben Wood On May 6th, 2008
I predict 2008 will have a very distinct soundtrack, as another company announces a mobile music download service.
The launch today, 1 April 2008, of a music service by Danish mobile network operator TDC adds to similar announcements by operators and other companies hoping to get into this market. TDC’s service is called Play; it [...]
Posted By Paolo Pescatore On April 1st, 2008
