Arun Sarin (Vodafone CEO ) has said any content providers wishing to launch D2C (direct to consumer) services will always have to work with Vodafone. Apparently, speaking to the Financial Times, Sarin stated that the 'unique gift' of billing secures it and other operators against becoming "dumb pipe" for data - for examples from those such [...]

Following "the Canada announcement," Vodafone issued a press release saying it scored a deal with Apple to introduce iPhone to ten other countries: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, [...]

Three giants — China Mobile, Softbank, and Vodafone — have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to "promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services." The JIL will focus on the rapidly growing areas of mobile internet services, such as mobile widgets. Initially, the JIL plans to develop a platform for mobile [...]

Vodafone UK is offering a £10/month discount on two of their tariffs (£35/month and £40/month) when customers sign up for 18 months - they have even done a bit of research to show why this is so important! Apparently, 52% of us Brits say that on at least one occasion, £10 had made a significant difference [...]

In a recent release, Vodafone announced that by 2020 it will reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% against its 2006/7 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. In addition, the Big Red mobile operator will be focusing on developing products and services which will help customers limit their own emissions. The idea here is to leverage improvements in [...]

A new service is to be added to Swisscom's mobile TV menu - Bluewin TV mobile will available on the new DVB-H network that is being rolled out, giving a quality that is claimed to be as good as home TV sets, with customer having access to 20 channels! Swisscom already has a pedigree in mobile [...]

According to sources in Taiwan's handset industry, China-based Amoi Electronics has landed orders to make Windows Mobile smartphones for Vodafone. The move will make the Chinese company the third supplier of Windows Mobile-based mobile devices for the UK-based telecom giant, which at the moment purchases such devices from HTC and Asustek. Amoi will start shipping the [...]

Verizon and Vodafone announced that they've teamed up with Madonna, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake to deliver the "mobile underground remix" of Madonna's highly-anticipated debut single "4 Minutes" from her upcoming album "HARD CANDY." Starting today, the underground version of the song is available to Verizon Wireless customers through V CAST Music as a full-song download, ringtone [...]

At least that's what folks supposedly in-the-know are saying. While the US the Europe are waiting eagerly for the 3G iPhone to make its global debut, Indians on Vodafone could have an iPhone 8GB to look forward to later this year. More specifically, the 8GB iPhone is purportedly slated to drop on Vodafone India in [...]

The near-term future of GSM-based mobile broadband is LTE (Long Term Evolution). With LTE in tow, GSM carriers can stay on top of the wireless data-game by offering 4G data access to its customers. Unfortunately, the world's largest wireless operator, Vodafone, has announced that it does not intend to make haste in bringing LTE to [...]