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August 10, 2010

VoIP pushes industry to HD voice

Call duration rises with voice quality, VoIP, HD voiceVoIP players are setting new standards in voice quality with HD codecs.

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July 1, 2010

EC blasts operators over roaming rates

Neelie Kroes, the European Commission’s top digital business official, has chastised EU operators for failing to do more to reduce roaming rates, and suggested that competition is still not strong enough.
   
The EC-mandated roaming rate caps have led to a 60-70% reduction in call and SMS rates since 2005, but

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May 20, 2010

Orange, SFR win France’s last 3G spectrum

Orange and SFR have snapped up the last of France’s 3G spectrum, leaving Iliad’s Free Mobile in the cold.
 
All three had been vying for two blocks of spectrum, one of 5MHz, and one of an awkward-to-use 4.8MHz.
 

March 3, 2010

Green light for Orange, T-Mobile UK merger

Orange and T-Mobile are clear to merge their UK businesses, but only after agreeing to give up 25% of their combined 1800MHz spectrum in the country.
 
The EC approved the merger yesterday, after the carriers agreed to the spectrum reduction to tackle EC fears the combined company would dominate the UK’s LTE market in the medium-term.
 

February 5, 2010

GSMA unveils first industry-standard metrics for m-ads

The GSM Association, in partnership with marketing research firm ComScore, has released the industry’s first industry-standard metrics for mobile advertising.
 
The metrics are based on anonymized browsing data gathered from all five UK operators’ – O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 3UK – subscriber bases.
 
The monthly met

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January 21, 2010

71.1 mln mobile phone users predicted in France by 2014

Filed under: ARPU,Bouygues Telecom,EBITDA,Europe,France,MVNO,Mobile,Orange — Editor @ 7:14 pm

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a latest prediction by a Canadian research company, France may have 71.1 million mobile phone subscribers in 2014 and Orange will surpass its competitors, SFR and Bouygues Telecom over the next five years in the EBITDA margins.
29 million mobile subscribers could be added by Orange in 2014 with a fall of almost [...]

January 19, 2010

FASTTAKES: Tinet, Ericsson, Google, Orange, Telstra, BSNL

Tinet, previously Tiscali’s international carrier arm, has signed up as a partner with China Telecom to provide international Ethernet private line service to businesses customers.

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January 16, 2010

DWDM backbone launched by Orange Business

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 3,500km dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) backbone network will be launched by Orange Business Services to provide services to Orange corporate customers. The network will stretch 8,500km, extend[Content protected for Silver members only]

Shanghai Expo to be broadcasted by Orange in Europe

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A deal has been signed between France Telecom’s Orange and Shanghai Media Group to broadcast content from this year’s World Expo in Shanghai on phones across Europe. Orange will work with BesTV, [Content protected for Silver members only]

January 15, 2010

Fibre co-investment to be tested by Orange France & SFR

Filed under: Bondy,Europe,France,Mobile,Orange,Palaiseau,Paris,RIM,SFR,operator — Editor @ 6:53 pm

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Test of the co-investment in fibre deployment in two towns in the Paris area will be done by Orange France and SFR, together. By rolling out fibre to sharing points in the municipalities of Bondy and Palaise[Content protected for Silver members only]

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