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Mobile Data Boost for Three and Everything Everywhere
Customers of Everything Everywhere and Three are set for a boost to their mobile data speeds, following a £100 million plus agreement with Virgin Media Business. The involves Mobile Broadband Network Limited, (MBNL), a 50/50 joint venture set up in 2007, between T-Mobile and Three to manage and deliver the combined 3G networks of each company. The tie-up between Orange and T-Mobile now involves each of those networks under the umbrella of Everything Everywhere. The deal agreed with Virgin Media...
Orange App Lets Dog Walkers Help Keep Streets Clean
Today Orange has launched the latest volunteering action on its Do Some Good app, allowing people to snap and geotag everything from dog waste to graffiti and litter on their mobile phones, helping to keep the streets of Britain clean. In the UK the number of dog owners has surpassed the number of cat owners for the first time, with some estimated 8.3 million dogs living in UK households. Whilst these days it is more common to see dog owners...
Orange Offers Free Thursday Movies on iTunes
Orange has launched another movie service giving customers the chance to download a free movie every week, via iTunes. The new service, called Film To Go lets users access a free movie after obtaining a code by texting FILMTOGO to the shortcode 85060. The text itself does cost 35p, however it entitles a free film download from iTunes, which can be viewed on the PC, or on an iPhone or iPad. The free film remains valid for 30 days, however...
Orange Launches Daily EU Mobile Data Package
Orange has launched a data package for customers travelling to destinations within the European Union, giving a daily allowance for just £3 per day. The daily allowance offers 30 MB of data for a 24 hour period, and is only charged if a customer uses a data service within that 24 hour time-frame. According to Orange, a 30 MB daily bundle is more than adequate for 99.5% of customers. There are other options available, though, with a 30MB bundle to...
Orange Launch Three Own Brand Android Devices
Orange has launched three Android based smartphones, that will be branded with Orange shortcuts and services, with two devices available to purchase straight away. The devices are the Orange Barcelona, Orange Stockholm and the Orange Monte Carlo. Orange Barcelona The Barcelona sports a traditional QWERTY style keypad, that should appeal to those who find themselves attracted to BlackBerry style devices. Running Android 2.2, the handset also has a capacitive touchscreen, a 3.2 Megapixel camera, and WiFi. Support is included for...
Orange Launch Orange Helpers Page on Facebook
Social networks are not just for keeping in touch with friends, as companies are also regularly using them to create closer connection to their customers. Orange UK have now launched a customer services page on Facebook, called Orange Helpers. The Orange Helpers page will offer Orange customers the an alternative method of contacting customer services. We've all had an experience of contacting a company by phone, and due to high call demand being kept in a queue listening to the...
Glastonbury Stats Detail High Level Smartphone Usage
The official app for the Glastonbury Festival was supplied by Orange, and stats collated by the network detail just how much smartphones have become an essential everyday accessory. The official app was downloaded over 100,000 times, and was available to users of Android handsets, the Apple iPhone and Nokia Symbian devices. The figures collated by Orange show that data usage across the festival was up by an incredible 377% year on year, with over 630 GB of data being sent...
Orange and Vodafone PAYG Call Charges Increase
Both Orange and Vodafone are introducing increased call charges across their Pay As You Go services, due in part to changes made by OfCom earlier in the year which reduced income from the Mobile Termination Rate. Mobile Termination Rate is the cost levied by one network to another for terminating the call on its network. The rate was cut from 4.18p to 2.66p per minute, and the plan is for this to be reduced even further. In response to the...
Orange Unveil Sound Charge T-Shirt
Orange has announced its innovation for keeping your mobile phone charged up at this year's Glastonbury festival, with the unveiling of the Sound Charge T-Shirt, which uses noise responsive technology to offer a quick top up to the mobile. Keeping a mobile phone charged up at a festival is one of the perennial problems for festival goers. In the middle of a large field, electrical supply points tend to be in short supply. Many modern day smartphones tend to offer...
UK Networks Unite for Mobile Payments Services
UK networks have announced the launch of a new combined venture designed to help bring mobile payment services such as NFC to the greater mobile using public. The initiative brings together Everything Everywhere, (Orange and T-Mobile) Telefonica (O2) and Vodafone, aims to deliver an open platform for businesses to deliver NFC payment services. The venture, which is as yet unnamed, will allow faster adoption of NFC, bringing to wider use services that can be purchased via an NFC enabled device,...
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