Orange UK is launching three new retail formats in the UK: franchises, community stores and multimedia stores.These will operate alongside its existing high-street stores and its concessions in HMV outlets.
Ten new Orange franchises are expected to open by the end of 2009, with the first franchisee opening a shop in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, this summer.
	 
	
	
		
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		Voice-to-text service SpinVox has been criticised following a report from BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. He’s been told that most of the company’s messages aren’t converted by technology but by call centre staff. Now, to many people in the mobile industry, this isn’t much of a surprise. But what’s causing particular concern now is an apparent breach of UK Data Protection rules.
	 
	
	
		
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