France Telecom’s Orange has reached an agreement with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to take the iPhone to Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and its…

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France Telecom (NYSE: FTE), owner of the Orange network, is in talks with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in other countries, according to the company’s CFO Gervais Pellissier.…

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BT (NYSE: BT) is back with another attempt in the mobile market. The UK’s largest fixed line operator and former incumbent launched a new mobile package today, BT Total Broadband…

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Another handset manufacturer turning to the mobile internet to boost sales. Today, at a splashy launch at the smart Soho Hotel in London, Peter Chou, president and CEO of Taiwanese…

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Orange is dangling free access to Facebook and MySpace to its pre-pay users in hopes of driving up usage at its Orange World portal, reports NMA.co.uk. It has also signed…

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Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…

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FT.com has added Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to the unsubstantiated list of companies interested in buying on-the-block Italian broadband/telco/IPTV group Tiscali, which yesterday set a May 5 sale deadline. Tiscali’s UK…

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Orange UK brand marketing director Justin Billingsley is to be given the added responsibility of the retail side of the business following a restructuring at the British mobile operator, inside…

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-- Orange UK IPTV: They said the same thing last year, but France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) CEO Didier Lombard this morning told MipTV Orange’s much-delayed UK IPTV service will launch…

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Orange France has struck multi-year deals with Warner Brothers International Television, HBO, Gaumont and Fidélité Film, which will provide the content—some of it exclusive--for its new cinéma series, available to…

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-- Orange UK Launches Ad-Funded Music Trial: Mobile operator Orange is launching a three-month long ad-sponsored content trial on its mobile internet platform Orange World. The trial will be offered…

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— The Sun Gets Search: UK tabloid The Sun is launching a mobile search box on its WAP site through a deal with mobile search firm Mobile Commerce. Mobile…

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Advertising is the next big opportunity in mobile—by some estimates released this week, it will be a burgeoning $250 billion industry within two years, but other more conservative estimates predict…

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More UK operators sharing their networks to cut costs and extend their network reach. The Guardian reports that Orange and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) have agreed to a UK network sharing…

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-- Orange UK Appoints New Head of Games, Gambling, Film: Neil Holroyd, former head of games and gambling at T-Mobile UK, has moved to rival operator Orange, where he takes…

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Maybe it’s the Spanish sun but peace (of a kind) has broken out between Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Orange. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on…

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The idle 3G spectrum in UK has been the subject of idle speculation for some time, and mobile TV trials have been promised, and now Orange and T-Mobile UK will…

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The UK’s five largest operators--Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3—are announcing today their intention to work together to develop common measurement standards for mobile advertising. The FT reports…

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Mobile operator global trade group the GSM Association has launched the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content to prevent individuals or organizations from trying to use mobiles to consume…

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"Our intention definitely in 2008 is to drop DRM, so we can have a truly interoperable service linked with network access”, music product development director Brenda O’Connell told mocoNews.net. Orange…

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Can ad-funded mobile games provide the mobile gaming industry with the revenues it’s seeking? Consumers have long been trained on the internet to want content for free, and subsidizing games…

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France’s second largest mobile operator, SFR, jointly owned by Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Vivendi (EPA: VIV), said on Tueday it had signed on 250,000 subscribers to contracts giving them unlimited…

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The UK’s voluntary code for mobile content could be replaced with more stringent rules following an upcoming review by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The Sunday Times reports that following complaints from…

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New Orange CEO Tom Alexander has appointed three of his ex-colleagues from Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM), the MVNO of which he was the founder/CEO and which became the fifth-largest operator…

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France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) CEO Didier Lombard told French radio station BFM today that the iPhone has led to a “very positive commercial result” selling more than 70,000 units since…

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