Orange has launched a range of new home broadband price plans. The operator said the move is the first in a home broadband evolution roadmap planned for the service over the next 18 months under newly appointed vice president of home Bruno Duarte.

‘Broadband & Off Peak Calls’ costs £7.50 per month and offers Orange mobile customers up to 20Mbps speeds and inclusive evening and weekend landline calls.

‘Broadband & Anytime Calls’ costs £10 per month  and offers Orange mobile customers up to 20Mbps speeds on their home broadband and inclusive anytime landline calls.

‘Simply Broadband’ is aimed at those that just want to take advantage of Orange’s up to 20Mbps wireless broadband for £10 per month.

Customers signing up for Orange’s ‘Broadband & Off Peak Calls’ or ‘Broadband & Anytime Calls’ package can also benefit from unlimited landline calls to over 30 countries for an additional £4 per month.

Orange has also introduced a new ‘Peace of Mind’ promise for straightforward set up – promising all new customers will be up and running within 10 working days, and if they’re not, they can end their contract within the month without charge.

Three new home broadband introduced as well as a new anytime international calling bundle

Orange has launched a range of new home broadband price plans. The operator said the move is the first in a home broadband evolution roadmap planned for the service over the next 18 months under newly appointed vice president of home Bruno Duarte.

‘Broadband & Off Peak Calls’ costs £7.50 per month and offers Orange mobile customers up to 20Mbps speeds and inclusive evening and weekend landline calls.

‘Broadband & Anytime Calls’ costs £10 per month  and offers Orange mobile customers up to 20Mbps speeds on their home broadband and inclusive anytime landline calls.

‘Simply Broadband’ is aimed at those that just want to take advantage of Orange’s up to 20Mbps wireless broadband for £10 per month.

Customers signing up for Orange’s ‘Broadband & Off Peak Calls’ or ‘Broadband & Anytime Calls’ package can also benefit from unlimited landline calls to over 30 countries for an additional £4 per month.

Orange has also introduced a new ‘Peace of Mind’ promise for straightforward set up – promising all new customers will be up and running within 10 working days, and if they’re not, they can end their contract within the month without charge.

Three new home broadband introduced as well as a new anytime international calling bundle

Orange has launched a range of new home broadband price plans. The operator said the move is the first in a home broadband evolution roadmap planned for the service over the next 18 months under newly appointed vice president of home Bruno Duarte.

‘Broadband & Off Peak Calls’ costs £7.50 per month and offers Orange mobile customers up to 20Mbps speeds and inclusive evening and weekend landline calls.

‘Broadband & Anytime Calls’ costs £10 per month  and offers Orange mobile customers up to 20Mbps speeds on their home broadband and inclusive anytime landline calls.

‘Simply Broadband’ is aimed at those that just want to take advantage of Orange’s up to 20Mbps wireless broadband for £10 per month.

Customers signing up for Orange’s ‘Broadband & Off Peak Calls’ or ‘Broadband & Anytime Calls’ package can also benefit from unlimited landline calls to over 30 countries for an additional £4 per month.

Orange has also introduced a new ‘Peace of Mind’ promise for straightforward set up – promising all new customers will be up and running within 10 working days, and if they’re not, they can end their contract within the month without charge.

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Halcrow has claimed that its imminent launch of Vodafone One, the operator’s unified communications service, will save the company an estimated £1 million over the next five years in communications costs.

Vodafone One brings fixed, mobile and PC based communications together so employees are contactable via one number on their mobile, fixed phone or PC. Halcrow, which is headquartered in the UK with over 7,000 employees across 80 offices, said this would revolutionise collaborative working for all it’s UK employees.

Halcrow said that Vodafone One’s PC features such as desktop conferencing, instant messaging and presence will integrate with video conferencing facilities to allow it to promote faster and more efficient team working.

Halcrow group IT director Chris Farmer said: “Vodafone One will support our adoption of a global delivery model and fundamentally improve the way we work, which will ultimately help us design and deliver better solutions for our customers. It will enhance our competitive advantage, as well as our agility to be more responsive to customer demands and new business opportunities

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The CEO of O2 UK, Ronan Dunne, has apologised for the poor performance of its mobile data network since the summer, especially in London. Dunne admits that the operator’s network was simply unable to cope with the surge in data usage by Mobile Broadband and iPhone users, though improvements are already working their way into the system.

Mr Dunne told the Financial Times:

“Where we haven’t met our own high standards then there’s no question, we apologise to customers for that fact. But it would be wrong to say that O2 has failed its customers en masse.”

No mobile operator is immune from capacity problems, with recent Mobile Broadband benchmarks indicating that most have enough trouble achieving a stable average speed of 1Mbps let alone the dizzy heights of 3.6Mbps to 7.2Mbps promoted by some.

O2 plans to solve its problems by imposing better Traffic Management, installing 200 additional base stations in London and working more closely with handset manufacturers to help keep usage down. Future LTE technology will also help, but ultimately operators will have to find cash and invest in more capacity.

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I think vodafone are offering the best deals at the minute on the new iphone 3GS you can pre-order for delivery on 15th January and they are offering unlimited texts where as O2 are only 500

due to hit the shops in time for Christmas.

Sony Ericsson describe the Jalou’s shape as a “facet cut jewel form” and although the look is reminiscent of the Nokia 7070 Prism, the Jalou is a much more sophisticated handset.

The “Jalou” and “BeJoo” are two different names for the same device – the phone will be called the “Jalou” worldwide except for France where the “BeJoo” name will be used. The reason? Well, according to Sony Ericsson the “Jalou” name is too close to the French word for “Jealous”, which goes to show that giving products a name rather than a number can be fraught with danger*.

In addition to the standard version of the Jalou, there is also a Dolce & Gabbana variant with gold plating, a rose colouring and exclusive D&G content. Alternatively the standard (and presumably cheaper) Jalou comes in “Deep Amethyst”, “Aquamarine Blue” and “Onyx Black” colour combinations.

The diamond shape is not the only thing that gives the Jalou a distinctive look – it’s also a lot less tall than most clamshell phones, measuring just 73 x 45 x 18mm when closed. Sony Ericsson have gone for this unusual size to make the phone as compact as possible, so it should fit it into the tiniest bag or jacket pocket. The Jalou is also very lightweight, coming in at just 84 grams.

So, what does the Jalou actually do from a technical perspective? Well, it’s a fairly standard 3G phone with a 2″ 240 x 320 pixel display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD expandable memory, stereo Bluetooth and a multimedia player. There’s a semi-concealed external display underneath the glossy casing, and you can also use the Jalou as a mirror to check just how gorgeous you are looking.

In Europe, the Jalou will support 2100 MHz UMTS plus HSDPA downloads, there will also be a US version which supports 900 and 1700 MHz UMTS and has the very useful addition of built-in GPS. We don’t know why there’s no GPS in the European version.. that would have been a pretty cool thing to have in a fashion phone. But, in other words.. the Jalou’s beauty is not just skin deep.

It’s an unashamedly girlie phone – some of the applications on the Jalou include a step counter, zodiac application and of course all the usual features such as a web browser and email client, plus a media player and FM radio. The display might be a little small for web browsing, but the inclusion of 3.5G data does at least mean that it will be quite fast.

There’s no word on pricing, our best guess is that the standard Jalou will retail for about €400 SIM-free. Sony Ericsson say that both the standard and the D&G version should be available during Q4 2009.

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O2 have slashed the price of their pre pay dongle in half.  From now until 6th August it can be purchased at this extremely low price then it will revert back to its original price of 29.35, and because its pre pay there are no monthly contract charges just pay as you use it.

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This promotion will be available on the following handsets: LG KF310,
Skypephone S2, Sony Ericsson
G502, Nokia 6120

Available from Monday 20th July 2009

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The Samsung Jet offers the following:
Free on £25 per month tariff – 400 Mins, Unlimited Texts, 9 Months Half Price! (other deals also available)
Vivid 3.1 inch OLED Touchscreen display!
Lightning quick user interface thanks to 800 MHz processor!
Run multiple applications with the Samsung Jet’s Multi tasking!
5.0 Megapixel camera with auto focus, face detection and smile detection!
DVD-like video capture and TV Out!
HSDPA mobile broadband, Wi-Fi and built-in GPS!

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The unlocking community is expecting new surge in business as crack for O2-tied iPhone 3G S is in the pipe

Dealers are confident the new Apple iPhone 3G S will be an unlocking success, but said it will take time before they can find an appropriate solution.

The new model, released again on the O2 network on June 19, has seen a surge of buyers ask unlockers to free the handset up from O2 tariffs they deem too expensive.

Fone Doctors proprietor Faisal Sheikh said: “We had a few enquiries over the opening weekend but we’re still getting a lot of the old 3G models in for unlocking.

“We have an unlocking solution but the problem is how to load it onto the handset. It may take a few weeks for this to happen and once people realise that this is again possible, the encouraging sales of the iPhone 3G S are likely to get better, fuelling more unlocking requests.”

Phone Tek-Nation store manager Jamie Turner said: “We’re offering an unlock but we’re still to test it and are working out how exactly to use it.

“We’ve had about a dozen requests and are openly advertising that we can unlock the phone. It appears that the unlock could take as little as 30 minutes so once word spreads on that, I’m confident we’ll be flooded with requests.”

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