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O2UK makes keeping your number easier

Published on February 21, 2010 in O2 and Services. 0 Comments

O2UK makes keeping your number easierO2UK makes it easier for you to keep your number, whether you are joining O2 or moving within O2.

We’re changing all that with www.o2.co.uk/keepmynumber. It’s a new online page that contains everything you need to know about how to keep your number. You’ll still need to get a PAC if you’re moving to O2 – it helps make sure no-one transfers your number without your say so – but it contains step-by-step instructions about what you need to do and what we’ll do for you. Continue reading ‘O2UK makes keeping your number easier’

HTC SMART is Brew MP smartphone with Sense UI

Published on February 19, 2010 in Brew, HTC, O2 and SmartPhone. 0 Comments

HTC SMART is Brew MP smartphone with Sense UIHTC and Telefónica have announced exclusive partnership to sell the HTC Smart, an affordable and easy-to-use smartphone in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The HTC Smart is a new type of smartphone that offers easy-to-use widgets, browsing and connectivity at an affordable price.

The HTC Smart embodies HTC Sense, HTC’s unique design philosophy that focuses the mobile experience on people. The HTC Smart’s compact touch design integrates the pillars of HTC Sense – Make It Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected – to deliver a user-friendly user experience. People can customise their own, personal HTC Smart experience using a variety of widgets for quick access to contacts, photos, music, weather and more. People are able to follow their friends’ status updates using HTC Friend Stream, an application that seamlessly aggregates all of your social communication including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised flow of updates. This simple aggregation makes it easier than ever to focus on what friends are doing as well as the images and links that they share.

HTC Smart utilises Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP), a powerful and popular mobile operating system that enables HTC to deliver the HTC Sense experience on more affordable smartphones. By pioneering a new era of mass-market smartphones, Brew MP also provides the HTC Smart with a mass-market opportunity for new applications and services from software developers worldwide.

In addition to being exclusively available through O2 in Germany, Ireland and the UK in April, the HTC Smart will also be available in Italy with Telecom Italia, Norway with Netcom and across Europe through the direct channel.

O2 and Azzurri create strategic relationship

Published on February 4, 2010 in O2 and Partnerships. 0 Comments

O2 and Azzurri create strategic relationshipO2 announces that Azzurri Communications, a leading independent managed service provider has become a strategic partner. Azzurri will help to deliver services to customers as part of 02’s Centre of Excellence programme. Established in 2000, Azzurri Communications has rapidly become the UK’s leading managed service company offering integrated voice, data, and mobile services. Continue reading ‘O2 and Azzurri create strategic relationship’

O2 Home Phone is coming

Published on January 16, 2010 in O2 and Services. 0 Comments

O2 Home Phone is coming

O2 has announced that it will offer home phone to new and existing home broadband customers in March. Two home phone packages will be available to O2 Home Broadband customers. ‘Evening & Weekend’ costs just £9.50 per month and offers unlimited calls to UK homes on evenings and weekends. ‘Anytime’ is available for £12.50 per month and offers any time, unlimited calls to UK homes, 0845/0870 numbers and landlines in over 20 international countries*. Together O2 Home Broadband and home phone will offer some of the most competitive pricing in the UK. O2 mobile customers will be able to get O2’s Standard broadband package and Evening & Weekend phone package for just £17 per month, including line rental.

For more information, you should head over to www.o2.co.uk/homephone.

O2 UK + Huawei trial live LTE services, 150Mbps achieved

Published on December 15, 2009 in Huawei, LTE and O2. 0 Comments

O2 UK Huawei trial live LTE servicesHuawei has announced a successful live trial of LTE (Long Term Evolution) with Telefónica O2 UK, the first fully operational operator LTE trial in the UK. During the trial, a cell peak downlink rate of 150Mbps was achieved in the Slough area, the headquarters of O2 in the UK. Continue reading ‘O2 UK + Huawei trial live LTE services, 150Mbps achieved’

GSA confirms 51 LTE network commitments in 24 countries, 19 LTE networks to be in commercial service in 2010

Published on December 11, 2009 in AT&T, Bell Mobility, China Mobile, DoCoMo, KDDI, LTE, MetroPCS, O2, Orange, Rogers, Softbank, T-Mobile, Telstra, Telus, Three, Verizon and Vodafone. 0 Comments

Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) confirms there are 51 LTE network commitments in 24 countries (Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, USA, and Uzbekistan), an increase of 96% over the past 8 months. With the first commercial LTE network launches just around the corner, GSA also anticipates that up to 19 LTE networks will be in commercial service by end 2010. 36 LTE networks are expected to be in service by end 2012. Continue reading ‘GSA confirms 51 LTE network commitments in 24 countries, 19 LTE networks to be in commercial service in 2010′

HTC HD2 available in the UK via O2

Published on November 23, 2009 in HTC and O2. 0 Comments

HTC HD2 available in the UK via O2.jpgO2 has announced that that the HTC HD2 is on sale in-store this week in the UK. HTC HD2 comes with a 4.3-inch touch screen, 1Ghz processor, Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC Sense, built in Wi-Fi, GPS, FM radio, camera with LED flash, a microSD card slot, a standard 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth, microUSB charging port, and more. The 11mm thick smartphone has also YouTube, Facebook and Twitter integration.

The HTC HD2 will be available in-store and over the phone. To find your nearest O2 retail store, visit http://www.o2.co.uk/shop/retailstores.

Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Global telecom companies announce a standards based solution for voice and SMS services over LTE

Published on November 4, 2009 in 4G, AT&T, LTE, Mobile VoIP, Nokia, O2, Orange, Sony Ericsson, Verizon and Vodafone. 0 Comments

AT&T, Orange, Telefonica (O2), TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have defined the preferred way to ensure the smooth introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks worldwide. They have jointly developed a technical profile for LTE voice and SMS services, also known as the One Voice initiative. The profile defines an optimal set of existing 3GPP-specified functionalities that all industry stakeholders, including network vendors, service providers and handset manufacturers, can use to offer compatible LTE voice solutions.

Open collaborative discussions have concluded that the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based solution, as defined by 3GPP, is the most applicable approach to meeting the consumers’ expectations for service quality, reliability and availability when moving from existing circuit switched telephony services to IP-based LTE services. This approach will also open the path to service convergence, as IMS is able to simultaneously serve broadband wireline and LTE wireless networks.

By following the jointly defined technical profile, the industry can help guarantee international roaming and interoperability for LTE voice and SMS services, ensuring subscribers continuity of these vital services – all while offering service providers a smooth and well-defined path to LTE.

The objective of the initiative is to ensure the widest possible ecosystem for LTE and to avoid fragmentation of technical solutions. LTE will, with this initiative, not only serve as a broadband access for increasing data traffic, but also for continuing voice and SMS services. Network operators will be able to more quickly develop their customized LTE ecosystem in collaboration with both network equipment vendors and device manufacturers. In addition, the reassurance of global interoperability in an LTE voice landscape and the ability to offer both broadband access and telephony services over LTE will create strong foundations for future business.

The profile for the initial solution has been finalized and is available through the companies associated with this press release. The objective is to hand over the profile and continuing work to existing industry forums.

(via nokia)