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RSS vodafone in newsVirgin Trains passengers to chatter for longer
News The train operator has joined forced with Vodafone UK to boost mobile coverage within carriages so fewer calls are dropped. A survey of more than 2,000 mobile users commissioned by Vodafone has found more than 70 per cent of workers talk business... [07 Apr 2008]
'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi
News The disparity between HSDPA - part of the HSPA family - and EV-DO networks has led to a situation where, despite data-roaming agreements between companies such as Vodafone (in the UK) and Verizon (in the US), a subscriber to either operator is... [07 Apr 2008]
LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival
News More than 30 mobile-phone companies are members of LiMo, including heavyweights Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Vodafone and newest member Texas Instruments. Google's Android may get all the attention, but there's more than one industry consortium... [31 Mar 2008]
Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…
News AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which is owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone, have already said they plan to use technology known as LTE (Long Term Evolution) for their 4G network. Wireless from A to Z [26 Mar 2008]
New mobile masts to be drastically reduced
News Hartmut Kremling, the chief technology officer of Vodafone Germany, said: "Site acquisition [for deploying base stations] is more difficult these days. Leading mobile operators have said they want to drastically cut down on the number of new base... [07 Mar 2008]
Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...
News The new new thing in our industry is internet on the mobile…" So said Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, addressing delegates at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona last month. The Vodafone chief said despite years of talking... [04 Mar 2008]
T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells
News Several operators, including T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone, are reportedly trialling femtocell technology with a view to launching it commercially by the end of this year. T-Mobile has invested in the UK-based femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys. [04 Mar 2008]
3G operators must learn to share
News Analysys said recent network sharing deals - for instance, between the likes of 3 and T-Mobile and Orange and Vodafone in the UK - indicate the mobile market is coming round to the benefits of pooling resources. [29 Feb 2008]
Ofcom threatens O2 over 3G coverage failure
News The other four licence holders are H3G, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has threatened to shave months off O2's 3G licence term after the mobile operator failed to meet a coverage deadline. [27 Feb 2008]
Vodafone boosts apprenticeship scheme
News Mobile giant Vodafone has committed to boosting its involvement in an apprenticeship scheme to help young people gain qualifications while learning on the job. By 2009 Vodafone UK has committed to having 2,000 apprenticeships up and running - with... [25 Feb 2008]
Google climbs to top of UK brand pile
News Apple and Vodafone both dropped out of the top 10 over the course of the past 12 months. Other tech companies that made the top 100 include Apple (11), Nokia (18), Vodafone (25), IBM (27), HP (32) Intel (42), eBay (43), Cisco Systems (58) and... [25 Feb 2008]
The mobile industry in its own words
News Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - took place earlier this month in Barcelona. Here's a flavour of the topics on the minds of some of the industry's... [22 Feb 2008]
O2 bags massive Network Rail BlackBerry deal
News The rail company's previous mobile provider was Vodafone. Mobile operator O2 has won a contract to provide 23,000 Network Rail staff with voice, BlackBerry and other mobile data services - its largest corporate customer win to-date. [21 Feb 2008]
Vodafone and Orange get cosy on mobile masts
News Mobile operators Orange and Vodafone have agreed to share network resources. Orange and Vodafone said the deal to share 2G and 3G mobile masts in the UK, which will start to be implemented this year, will see more customers benefit from better... [20 Feb 2008]
Orange and T-Mobile join forces on mobile TV
News TDtv was successfully trialled in Bristol in 2007 by Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone and 3UK. Orange and T-Mobile will jointly trial a mobile TV service in West London during the second half of 2008. The service will include 24 TV channels and ten... [13 Feb 2008]
