Showing posts with label Orange UK. Show all posts
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February 23, 2010
Clearance for T-Mobile & Orange mobile to Merge

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The European Commission is expected to fast-track the deal after the two companies offered key concessions to ease the concerns of competition and industry watchdogs in the UK. The tie-up between the British arm of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile, and Orange UK, a subsidiary of France Telecom. The two plan to form a joint venture with some 30 million customers, allowing it to overtake O2 as Britain’s biggest player  with 37% of the market Share.

The deal met with opposition from the Office of Fair Trading, the competition regulator, Ofcom, the industry watchdog, and rival mobile-phone operators. This month the OFT requested that it be granted the right to rule on the merger. Orange and TMobile have agreed to give up some bandwidth, prompting both the OFT and Ofcom to tell the European Commission. The commission has until March 1 to decide whether to refer the inquiry to the UK authorities, but the behind-the-scenes deal now makes this unlikely. One key concession concerns 3, Britain’s smallest mobile operator, and its network-sharing agreement with T-Mobile. Another concession has seen the two companies offer to relinquish up to a quarter of the valuable 1,800MHz bandwidth. If the merger goes ahead, the enlarged group is expected to continue using both the Orange and T-Mobile brands. Phone charges could fall as a result of the deal.

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January 8, 2010
Orange dumps Nokia N97 Mini due to high Return Report

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The reason is reported to be the handset's high return rate of 20% due to alledged problems with the device. Orange however, is not giving a reason for the move.
"We can confirm that Orange UK will no longer continue to range the N97 Mini as part of its existing handset portfolio", an Orange spokesperson told Pocket-lint.
"We remain committed to supporting the device for existing customers and look forward to working with Nokia in the future".

Return rates have reached 20%, according to Mobile News, and they reported Orange as stating: “We can confirm that Orange UK will no longer continue to range the N97 Mini as part of its existing handset portfolio.”

 

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December 31, 2009
HD Voice Calls to UK in 2010 by Orange

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The mobile telephone industry is joining the HD wave as Orange announces today that it will make high definition calls available in 2010.
The HD voice service, which will require customers to buy new handsets, promises to make callers feel as if they are in the same room. France Telecom-owned Orange is the first mobile phone company to announce a British HD voice service and it hopes the clearer calls will usher in a new standard throughout the industry.
"HD Voice really does inject a level of innovation into mobile phone calls, making it sound as if callers are actually in the same room. Once people have tried it, they won't want to go back," said Tom Alexander, Orange UK chief executive .
Orange plans HD voice trials in the new year and a nationwide introduction later in 2010. It is working with handset manufacturers to develop devices that can support the new service.
HD voice provides better audio quality thanks to a wider speech bandwidth. Explaining the service, Orange says: "High definition voice doubles the spectrum devoted to the spoken voice, making it possible to transmit all the nuances of the human voice." It also fades background noise to provide clearer conversations and even if only one of the two phones in a conversation is HD-enabled, the sound quality will still be significantly better than it is now, the company claims.
The Orange announcement comes just days after rival network O2 apologized to customers who could not make phone calls because its London network was overwhelmed by smartphones such as Apple's iPhone.
Analyst Ben Wood, at telecoms consultants CCS Insight, said Orange would be looking to use its HD voice service to tap into reports of customer frustration with O2.
"This underlines our belief that quality and performance will be key battlegrounds among the UK network operators in 2010," he said.
"The iPhone has emerged as the catalyst to a renewed focus on network quality, performance and coverage; HD voice is another tool in that battle. Orange is bound to use this to compete with O2"
Orange launched the world's first high definition voice service for mobile phones in Moldova in September.Prices for its HD calls have yet to be set and it is not yet known whether they will cost more than standard calls or if Orange will use the higher quality promise to differentiate itself from rivals. In Moldova the cost of calls did not change when the HD service launched.

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