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Officially announced last February during the exhibition Mobile World Congress and originally scheduled for the third quarter of 2008, finally both the Orange and Vodafone in UK will release The Nokia N96 on 1st October, at least in Britain. At the time, the advertised price is $1250 or €800, excluding subscription, no new information so [...]

Vodafone Group PLC is teaming up with social networking site MySpace to create an interactive music platform. Vodafone said Monday the service will make available footage from Vodafone-sponsored music events to MySpace users in Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain. Financial details were not disclosed.

Verizon Communications has reiterated its long standing desire to buy out Vodafone’s share in their joint venture mobile network, Verizon Wireless. Speaking to the Financial Times, Verizon CEO, Ivan Seidenberg confirmed that he still wanted total ownership of the wireless division, although he warned that he doesn’t expect Vodafone to sell in the near term.
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Vodafone Group iPhone 3G available to customers in Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal on Jul. 11, and in the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, South Africa and Turkey later this year. The iPhone 3G is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone, Vodafone Group said.

Vodacom CEO, Alan Knott-Craig has confirmed reports that he plans to step down from the company in September, but will  remain as a consulting CEO until the end of the 2009 financial year. No sucessor has been named, although Vodacom chairman Oyama Mabandla says this should happen shortly. It could be that the new CEO [...]

Vodafone is alleged to have spied on its own directors during the boardroom dispute over the strategy being pursued by Arun Sarin in 2006 which lead to the departure of chairman Lord MacLaurin and the resignation of former chief executive Sir Chris Gent from his role as life president.
The UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper is [...]

Samsung today has announced a new handset ” Samsung Steel” in the UK exclusively to Vodafone. This new Samsung Steel has been designed for the “style-conscious user” who is keen to own the very latest in mobile design. The phone will sport a 2.2-inch screen capable of 262K colours, HSDPA connectivity and a 3-megapixel camera. [...]

Vodafone unveiled that it has acquired 100% of German fixed-line carrier Arcor. Vodafone coughed up 474 million Euro to get the 26.4% interest from Deutsche Bank AM and Deutsche Bahn AG
Speaking about the acquisition, Arun Sarin, Vodafone’s Chief Executive said, “This deal is consistent with our total communications strategy. By taking full control of Arcor [...]

Vodafone have revealed that they have agreed to acquire 100% of Denmark based ZYB for 31.5 million Euros. ZYB is a social network and online management tool that lets mobile phone users back-up and share their calendar information and phone contacts online.

Under the terms of the deal, ZYB will remain based in Denmark and upon [...]

UK is expanding its HSPA coverage for mobile broadband t o6 new cities - Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. This will provide users with downlink speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s and up to 1.8 Mb/s uplink speeds. At the moment, HSPA is only available in London and major UK airports.
The mobile broadband market [...]

After Canada, Vodafone have issued a press release unveiling the fact that they have managed to secure a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to 10 other countries.
iPhone loving Vodafone subscribers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to get their hands [...]

Three behemoths in the mobile business – Vodafone, Softbank and China Mobile – have come together to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) in order to “promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services.”
The JIL will work mainly on the quickly expanding sectors of mobile internet services, like mobile widgets. In the beginning, [...]

UK carrier Vodafone is offering a monthly discount of £10 on two of their tariffs (£35/month and £40/month) if and when customers sign up for a 18 month deal. In fact, Vodafone has actually researched it to show why it’s that necessary. From a survey it appears that 52% of all Brits have on at [...]

It seems that Vodafone are looking to acquire Tiscali, the Anglo-Italian ISP.
According to The Guardian, Tiscali’s board would prefer to sell both its Italian and UK subsidiaries together rather than separately.
Besides Vodafone a whole stable of other companies are also interested in Tiscali - including Telecom Italia, Sky Italia, Fastweb, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, BskyB - [...]

This would make Amoi the third company that supplies Vodafone with WinMo devices, with the other two being HTC and Asustek.
Amoi will begin shipping the Amoi 6711 in the third quarter of 2008. Right now that very device is offered by two other carriers, AT&T and Orange, who are rebranding it as the SMT5700 [...]

Reports suggest that the iPhone could be making its way to India by September. While people in America and Europe are waiting for the worldwide launch of the 3G iPhone, Vodafone India users will get the chance to pick up an iPhone 8GB a few months later. The 8GB iPhone is set to be launched [...]

It seems that Vodafone were not content with offering just the Samsung F700, the snazzy slider with a QWERTY keyboard. They are now offering the F490. The phone is basically an F700 without the keyboard. For that sacrifice you get a better 5 megapixel camera and a whole host of other the other standard features. [...]

Found this pictures of the new Nokia 612o color over at the S60 Inside blog. Nokia 612o is called Limited Internet Edition and is available exclusively fron Vodafone Spain. It really does look a lot better then the Orange version which is scheduled to launch on Japanese market a seek ago. The specs are the same and the [...]

Madonna is turning 50 this year, yet somehow she still manages to keep herself and her fake british accent in the spotlight. Now she, like many others are turning to technology for marketing. Seven tracks from her upcoming album, Hard Candy, will be available to Vodafone customers before it’s April 28 release. According to the [...]

The LG KF510 is to launch at The Carphone Warehouse in “Sunset Red”. The LG KF510 is a sleek slider, the LG KF510 boasts 10mm depth and a metal frame with a resilient tempered glass finish. The LG KF510’s control keys are touch sensitive and when the phone slides open it features “retro lighting” effects. [...]