Get Up to Speed at Home With Vodafone
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone is to offer its millions of UK customers high-speed internet connections in the home.   Vodafone said it will enter the fixed-line broadband market "before the end of the year" after striking a deal with BT.
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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.
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4G or not to be 3GSM Mobile carriers risk been leapfrogged by new entrants unless they work together to speed up the development of technologies such as mobile payments, according to Vodafone chief exec Arun Sarin.â¦
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Joy at data revenues leap Vodafone stuck to its outlook guns this morning when it released a trading statement that showed data revenue growth far outstripping the increase in dreary old voice.â¦
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When is a mobile company not a mobile company? Vodafone has acquired Aspective and Isis Telecommunications Management; two UK-based consultancies that specialise in the mobilisation of customer relationship management and sales force applications, as well as providing telecommunications services to small and medium businesses.â¦
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Forget sticking a toe in the water, Vodafone&#39;s done a cannonball -- unveiling 10 handsets it&#39;s got lined up for the November launch of its 3G consumer services in the UK.
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Vodafone has flicked the switch for the start of its &#39;Vodafone live! With 3G&#39; service. Its portal of mobile services has had a 3G makeover for UMTS-based (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) video
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MOBILE phones giant Vodafone is expected to announce this week that it has struck a deal with BT allowing it to sell residential broadband access to its British customers.   BT will supply fixed-line broadband access wholesale to Vodafone, which will then repackage it under its own brand.
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Vodafone is to cut costs by Â£2.5bn per year by March 2008. It will do this a combination of Â£1.4bn through cost-saving measures and Â£1.
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Broadband mass migration to Telefonica UK
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Vodafone&#39;s new Text Centre service allows users to send text messages from PCs, just like sending an e-mail. Text messages can be sent to a single recipient or to a broader list, and the sender
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, October 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Following an agreement between Vodafone UK, Starhome and General Wireless, Vodafone&#39;s business customers can now send and receive text messages (SMS) in their MS-Outlook and Lotus Notes.
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Thanks to Vodafone's global size, it is now cheaper for Vodafone Sweden's business customers to work mobile while on business trips abroad and easier to manage the costs.
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London-based Vodafone has finally rolled out its mass-market third-generation (or 3G) mobile telephone services after a four-year wait, billions of pounds spent on licences and numerous delays.
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Check balances, transfer money and even pay bills on a handset.
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VODAFONE, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone network, launched its third-generation services in 13 countries today, including the UK.
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Vodafone Group Plc plans to lure more than 10 million customers to the company&#39;s high-speed mobile- phone services by March 2006, the first indication of how it plans to generate sales from licenses that cost $20 billion.