Mobile operator 3 has unveiled a phone designed for accessing web 2.0 services such as Facebook; and it'll hit Australia before Christmas.
The chief exec of the UK arm of mobile operator 3 said the company is set to heavily promote IP telephony and instant messaging on its network.
Internode managing director Simon Hackett must have spent the past few months laughing quietly to himself as he watched rival telcos finally bring ADSL2+ broadband to the market.
Hutchison's jovial Australian chief executive officer, Kevin Russell, will in the new year take on the deputy CEO spot at the mobile carrier's UK operation.
Mobile carrier Hutchison wants to start providing data speeds of up to 3.6Mbps on the back of its third-generation (3G) mobile phone network from March or April next year.
Like many reporters engaged in the shady business of covering the Australian telecommunications sector, I spent Friday, 6 October, at Telstra's mammoth eight hour investor briefing in Sydney.
Japanese electronics maker NEC unveiled a mobile video phone to coincide with the launch of Hutchison's third-generation (3G) high-speed cellular data service that offers video.
Hutchison launched its '3' mobile service in Australia today, unveiling an aggressive pricing scheme which could possibly lead to a price war.
Hutchison Telecoms, which owns Orange, has outsourced the operation of its Australian mobile networks to Ericsson Australia in a seven-year deal that is expected to save the telco over AU$40 million.
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