Vodafone fined for Greek wire-taps
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Greece fines mobile phone operator Vodafone Â£51m over its failure to guard its network against phone snoopers.
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Vodafone says some UK users have been temporarily cut off after a text message service upgrade went wrong.
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Trojan horse Greece's privacy watchdog has fined Vodafone â¬76m ($100m) over a wiretapping scandal that saw the illegal monitoring of the mobile calls of top government officials including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.â¦
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Vodafone, the world&#039;s biggest mobile phone company, reported annual losses totalling 21.92 billion pounds during 2005-06, a record for the company.
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Vodafone Group PLC launched high-speed Internet services for mobile phones across much of Europe on Wednesday, ending a wait of several years since the world's biggest cell phone company spent billions for new wireless licenses at the height of the technology bubble.
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The company that ran phone competitions for GMTV is fined a record Â£250,000 after viewers lost an estimated Â£20m.
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Â· Charity donations take total bill to Â£2.5mÂ· Broadcaster to sue telephone services firm
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The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation's ban on spam.
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Txt 0907 RIP OFF Vodafone has been charging its pay as you go customers an extra 12p for texting premium rate numbers.â¦
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The BBC was fined 50,000 pounds on Monday for a phone-in scandal in which a young studio guest posed as a phony competition winner on one of Britain&#39;s best loved children&#39;s shows.
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The European Commission fines Spain's Telefonica for stifling competition in the broadband market.
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The company behind the Richard and Judy premium rate telephone quiz scandal is fined Â£150,000.
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Â£40m next generation deal Vodafone has agreed to pay Cable and Wireless Â£40m over two years to help it migrate its backend and enterprise functions to an IP-based network.â¦
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Olympics-gate dissected More details have emerged on how Vodafone's Greek network was bugged three years ago to spy on top government officials.â¦
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The Financial Services Authority said Thursday it had fined the Bank of Ireland for breaching regulations intended to prevent money laundering.
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Late last month, the Court of First Instance in Brussels issued a decision ordering Scarlet, one of Belgium&#39;s leading ISPs, to begin blocking copyrighted material that passes through its servers. The court gave the ISP six months to implement one or more technologies recommended by a court-appointed expert, and threatened the company with fines of up to 2,500 euros per day (roughly US$3,400) if it fails to comply.
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone has begun offering new fees and features to stir demand for mobile Internet services as competition hits the company's profits from voice services. Two of the group's largest subsidiaries, Germany's Vodafone D2 GmbH and Vodafone Ltd. in the U.K., announced new mobile data offerings on Wednesday with subsidiaries in several other markets planning customized packages of their own, according to Vodafone Group spokesman Mark Street. "Pricing for these new mobile Internet services will be on a market by market basis, and it will be up to each market to decide on features," Street said. "But what I can say is that as a group, we're looking at prices that are predictable and transparent and services that offer value for their money." The move comes as Vodafone, which has been facing tough competition from low-cost mobile phone operators, seeks new revenue streams to offset falling prices from its traditional cash-cow voice service. It has also been prompted by mobile Internet services, such as T-Mobile International AG's Web n' Walk, designed for quick, easy, and competitively priced mobile phone surfing. As of July 15, Vodafone customers in Germany can subscribe to the new mobile Internet service, called "Handy 2.0," available for a flat monthly fee of â¬9.95 ($13.44) . The service uses the open-source Opera mobile phone browser, which formats content for easy viewing on small displays, according to Vodafone D2 spokeswoman Bettina Donges. "Handy 2.0 will be like a PC experience," Donges said. "You'll be able to surf all around the Net with your mobile phone, the pages will be compiled fast, and they'll be easy to read." The new flat-rate Internet offering, however, doesn't apply to VoIPÂ applications, according to Donges. Vodafone will not support mobile VoIP service until it can guarantee quality service, Street said. In addition, Vodafone has struck Internet partnerships with eBay, Google, YouTube, and MySpace.com to provide services specially tailored for mobile phones. Customers access the Internet service through the Vodafone Live mobile portal. The portal service is included in the various bundled minute packages available from the German operator. Initially, several handsets, including the Nokia N73 and N95, the Motorola V3 and V980, and the Samsung Zv60 and D900i, will support the Handy 2.0 service, but other phones will be added over time. In the U.K., Vodafone is launching a similar service that takes Web pages designed for PCs and makes them easy to read on handsets. The Vodafone Mobile Internet offerings also includes partnerships with eBay, Google, YouTube, and MySpace as well as Yahoo. Analysts see a couple of advantages to the partnerships. By collaborating with these brands, Vodafone not only gives customers a better experience of using their Internet services on their phones but will also benefit from advertising revenue opportunities, according to John Delaney, principal analyst at Ovum Ltd. One slight difference between the German and U.K. offering is the price: U.K. customers who sign up for a data pack pay Â£7.50 ($14.90 ) per month for 120MB of data, which is equivalent to four hours of viewing YouTube or up to 160 mobile Internet pages every day for a month. Other customers are charged per kilobyte, up to a Â£1 per day for 500KB, with no additional charge unless the day's usage exceeds 15MB.