Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei Technologies has been awarded a four-year contract to upgrade the Orange and T-Mobile networks operated by Everything Everywhere.
The work will improve reception, expand HD voice calling and will also prepare for a move to 4G LTE technology.
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Everything Everywhere, which runs the Orange and T-Mobile UK networks, has released outline results for the first quarter of 2011. It says mobile service revenue was up 1.6% year-on-year, although overall turnover was down 1.7%. (Both figures exclude the effects of regulation).
Orange and T-Mobile now have 27.7 million customers between them.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast covers text message donations, network partnerships, mobile payments and the latest innovations. There's also a look back at a feature from 2006 in which we discussed the still-current topic of voicemail hacking.
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Mobile messaging media company Blyk has been appointed to manage all elements of Orange UK's media sales program.
The two companies started working together on Blyk's MVNO in 2007. Blyk is now building a media sales function dedicated to the 'Orange Shots' mobile advertising service in the UK.
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Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom - which already work in partnership as Everything Everywhere and recently announced plans to cooperate in other business areas - are now going shopping together.
They've agreed to combine their procurement activities for customer equipment, network equipment, service platforms and IT Infrastructure.
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