Vodafone to enter UK fixed-line broadband market
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group   confirmed on Monday its plan to enter Britain's  cut-throat fixed-line broadband Internet market via a deal with  the wholesale arm of telecoms firm BT Group .
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Vodafone Group Plc has selected the former UK incumbent, BT Group Plc, as its fixed-line partner as the world's largest mobile operator catches up with its rivals and starts to offer its UK consumer base a broadband offering.
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By HUGO DUNCAN Daily Post Correspondent  MOBILE phone giant Vodafone said yesterday that it will offer its millions of UK customers high-speed internet connections in the home.
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(InfoWorld) - After testing the waters with consumers for more than a year, BT Group plans to extend its converged fixed-mobile communications service to businesses early next year. The move follows a successful field test with a government organization. BT Corporate Fusion, announced Thursday, combines Wi-Fi and mobile phone service for voice calls, using VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) technology when calls are made over a wireless network to lower phone costs. The service will be rolled out initially in the U.K. and Italy early next year, with Germany, France, Spain, and the Benelux countries to follow. The operator plans to announce handset deals in the coming weeks. The new service works like this: Calls made from dual-mode Wi-Fi-GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phones within an office building are connected through Wi-Fi access points and routed over existing fixed-line infrastructure. Using VOIP technology to route those calls saves money. Outside corporate premises, the dual-mode phone operates like a mobile phone, providing ubiquitous coverage and global roaming. These calls, however, are more expensive because they are carried over mobile phone networks. The Leeds City Council has been testing the new converged service at two locations. Several operators, including Deutsche Telekom and the Danish subsidiary of Sweden's TeliaSonera, have launchedÂ new converged fixed-mobile servicesÂ but these offerings areÂ targeted at consumers, largely in a move to keep customers from abandoning traditional fixed-line telephone service. On Thursday, BT also said the group expects to more than double revenue from networking services for enterprises in the U.S., Japan, China, and India. The company did not pen a number to its predication.
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By Edited by STEVE HAWKES  BRITAIN'S biggest mobile phone firm plans to launch a high-speed internet service for the home.   Vodafone Broadband will be available before the end of the year.
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Vodafone has confirmed that it will launch its 3G service in the UK in November. The announcement came hot on the heals of the operators announcement of the handsets it will be making available for the launch.
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Cell phone giant Vodafone Group PLC, which has spent years struggling to recoup billions spent on 3G licences, finally launched the cutting-edge service Wednesday in much of Europe and introduced or beefed up its operation in a dozen other countries.
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Facebook took a new step into the mobile realm on Thursday, launching a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.Vodafone is the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the U.K. and Germany, said Jed Stremel, Facebook&#39;s director of mobile division. Vodafone will soon expand the program to Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal.The platform involves giving operators a set of technical specifications intended to resolve some of frustrating hang-ups when using Facebook on a mobile phone rather than a PC, such as smoothing out login problems and opening up other features, Stremel said.The move by Facebook, which ranks next to MySpace as one of the most popular social networking sites, is intended to grow its user base, which the company estimates at 64 million users. So far, the company says it has 6 million users of Facebook Mobile, an unsupported mobile version of the Web site that will now get full support, Stremel said.At the moment the mobile site does not have any advertising. Stremel would not reveal the financial details of Facebook&#39;s deal with Vodafone, although he said operators will be able to generate revenue from data services as their subscribers access Facebook.The long-term hope for social networking sites is&#160;rich online advertising revenue. Facebook, which has an&#160;exclusive deal with Microsoft to place ads on the site, also did not say when it would put advertising on the mobile site.The company is hoping to lure more operators by the simplicity with which they can enable Facebook, Stremel said.Facebook has created special Web pages with instructions on how operators can set up their systems, he said. The instructions, for example, let operators add system settings that will let their subscribers send MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) with photos or video to their Facebook profiles, Stremel said.The platform also includes other specifications designed to stop abuse of Facebook, such as spamming, Stremel said. When someone sends their first MMS with a photo to their profile, the user is sent back a confirmation message with a code or a link. That confirmation then links that person&#39;s phone with their Facebook account, Stremel said.&#160;
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C'mere you Vodafone is to be the first operator to make use of Facebook's new Mobile Operators Platform, and has also signed a deal with dating site Match.com.â¦
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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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The UK could face a new 3G licence auction after Ofcom on Thursday announced plans to take some of the radio spectrum held by mobile phone operators Vodafone and  O2, and use it for higher speed services.
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After a four-year wait, billions of pounds spent on licences and numerous delays, Vodafone finally rolled out mass-market third-generation (3G) mobile telephone services on Wednesday.
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Italian broadband company Fastweb   and the Italian unit of mobile phone giant Vodafone   on Friday will announce a commercial agreement, sources  familiar with the deal told Reuters.
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British operator Vodafone announced Monday at the industry's annual trade show in Barcelona that it would launch a money transfer service in Afghanistan after the successful introduction of a similar initiative in Kenya.
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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&#39;s profits from voice services.
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British telecom company Vodafone said it would provide Google Maps services for its mobile phone customers with the assistance of the US Internet search giant.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone has agreed to buy an 11-billion-dollar controlling stake in India's Hutchison Essar in an attempt to move into the world's fastest-growing mobile phone market.