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Travel with Vodafone?
If you are planning on travelling around Europe this summer and you are a bit worried about the costs of staying in touch with your family back home then Vodafone have released the answer for you! They are dropping their roaming charges for a number of regions around the globe, but don’t [...]
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Google saves the day and the handbag…
If you thought that Google weren’t looking out for your best interests then I’m afraid to say that you are so very wrong! Google’s Latitude service managed to help the police in the United States find their way straight to a stolen purse in a matter of minutes.
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Vodafone cuts 500 jobs…
Well, it’s happened – Vodafone have indeed announced their move to make 500 job cuts in an attempt to save around a billion pounds in the face of the current economic downturn and the added issues of troubled profits.
Rumours of the cuts were circling the web-waves yesterday, although Vodafone were refusing to [...]
Vodafone and 3 take on the competition together.
In a move that is sparking the imagination of the world, one of the world’s most successful telecom providers, Vodafone, has teamed up with Hutchison Telecommunications, who brings 3 mobile services, in Australia.
The plan to merge the two companies together in Australia will see them reach around 95 [...]
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And the winner is…
The results are in and the country’s fastest Mobile Broadband provider has finally been revealed. An independent survey has found that T-Mobile is the fastest provider of the mobile technology, news I’m sure they’ll appreciate.
The tests on the services in Britain were made in the final quarter of 2008 by the [...]
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Vodafone have made the news as they have moved into the satellite navigation market with their acquisition of the Swedish sat nav software provider Wayfinder. The move comes after a proposal was made by Vodafone back in December 2008 for 98 per cent of the sat nav provider leaving the remaining 2 per cent [...]
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It is being rumoured that BT are planning on making a comeback to the mobile phone market. The telecoms company are being rumoured to be in talks with the likes of T-Mobile and the 3 network in what appears to be an attempt to break up the massive market hold enjoyed by the Big [...]
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It’s a tough blow when even your sponsor has had enough of you. English cricket must say goodbye to their sponsor, Vodafone, as their four year deal will come to an end after a tour of South Africa January 2010. The sponsorship deal, worth a grand total of £4 million a year, will [...]
Entrepreneur Richard Branson’s Virgin Media, is to cut 2,200 jobs – around 15 percent of the company’s employees.
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