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The past couple of years have not been kind to Vodafone in the UK. O2 and Orange are formidable competitors that seem to have outsmarted Vodafone at almost every turn and have won some major victories in the battle for the consumer. Vodafone's shown significant improvements in recent months, but there's still some way to go.
Vodafone's strength has always... Read more

I woke up on Monday morning excited at the prospect of going to the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris. As well as going to the event for the first time, I'd been promised a peek behind the scenes at Orange's efforts to broadcast matches in 3D.
For the Roland Garros event Orange has teamed up with national broadcaster France Televisions to broadcast... Read more

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 furt... Read more

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, people will be able to update their status an... Read more

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 of ... Read more