Orange UK Named Best Entertainment Operator in Europe

Orange UK has been named “Best Entertainment Operator” in Europe at the Mobile Entertainment Awards in Cannes. Fighting off fierce competition from across the European mobile industry, Orange mobile phones bagged the top award of the night following innovative multimedia deals with the likes of social networking site Bebo and leading record labels.

Orange UK also won “Best Multimedia Marketing Campaign” for “Frank TV” – its mobile TV channel hosted by and starring Chelsea and England football star Frank Lampard. The awards come after Orange revealed a dramatic rise in non-voice revenues in its first quarter results announced earlier this week (07/05/08). Data now accounts for 23.6% of Orange UK network revenues.

For the first time, Orange’s year-on-year rise in ARPU (annual revenue per user, or the amount a customer spends per year) was fuelled by customers spending more on data rather than voice. Orange UK’s total ARPU was at £268 in the first quarter of this year – up £11 on the same time last year. £6 of that came solely from data services, while the other £5 from voice.
Source : http://www.3g.co.uk/

Orange plan mobile phone mast on Penwortham grass verge

Mobile phone giant Orange has applied to South Ribble Borough Council for permission to build a phone mast on a Penwortham grass verge.

The company is seeking permission to build the 15m high slimline column on a grass verge in Millbrook Way, Penwortham, near Preston.The plan also includes three antennas and a microwave dish with associated equipment cabinets.The plan has yet to be considered by the council's planning team.

Source : http://www.prestoncitizen.co.uk

Orange come last in mobile phone provider survey

ORANGE are the UK's worst mobile phone providers, according to a consumer survey. In the UK Mobile Study of pre-pay and contract customers, Tesco and Virgin were the best phone firms.

The survey asked 3340 mobile phone users throughout the UK to rate their providers on image, cost, call quality, promotions, handsets and customer service. The companies were then given an overall consumer satisfaction score. Researchers JD Power found that 20 per cent of contract customers intended to switch provider, compared with 10 per cent of pre-pay customers.

The research, carried out during February, also revealed that companies' environmental credentials are becoming more important to mobile customers. Caspar Tearle, director of service industries research at JD Power, said: "Being green is an increasingly important requirement of today's mobile telephone service providers. "It will be interesting to track how customer expectations for greater environmental friendliness will shape the industry within the coming years."
Source : http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk

HTC Touch : Jam-packed with stunning features

The elegant HTC Touch mobile phone is jam-packed with stunning features and advanced technology. It supports a TFT Touchscreen, which unfurls 65k colours at 240 x 320 pixels high image resolution. The touchscreen has many wonderful features too like, touch FLO finger swipe navigation, handwriting recognition and 5 way navigation.

The lovely and stylish HTC Touch mobile phone comes with 128/56MB ROM memory including 1GB card and a microSD card slot to expand the memory of the handset. The Bluetooth™ features provides wireless connectivity and the users can connect their handset to any wireless device. The battery of the handset is empowered with Li-Ion 1100 mAh, which can stand by up to 200 hours and provides you talk time up to 5 hours.

The HTC Touch handset comes with Microsoft windows mobile 6.0 professional. The users can avail lots of messaging features in the handset including SMS, MMS, Emails and instant messaging. The latest handset is available in many striking colours like, soft black, wasabi green, white and burgundy. The wap browser ensures the users to access the internet in no time.

The handset offers a 2 mega pixel camera, which is also capable of video recording. The users can shoot the pictures, as well as the videos. HTC Touch mobile phone is a pocket office handset, which offers word, excel, outlook and PDF viewer. The integrated music player provides all time entertainment for the users. The users can watch the audio and video album while listening to them. Thus, the handset has everything what the users search in a handset.

Cheap mobile phones are too in the market

Now-a-days, mobile market is flooded away with the latest mobile phones from various service providers. To bring into notice some mobile phones are high in range whereas others satisfy the users pocket with lower rates. With a great range of the latest Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, LG, and Sony Ericsson models to choose from, you can avail various models at superb bargain prices i.e. with great discount packages offering free texts, talk time, headsets and even free gifts, with that user can save hundreds of pounds. Some bargain for the mobile phones other follow the smart move by getting the high-end mobile under some deal.

Leading mobile manufacturers offer its user with the cheap mobile phones like Nokia offers 1100, 1108, 6230i; like this Samsung, Sony Ericsson and others offer great bargain on their entry level mobiles. Moreover, users can avail cheap mobile phones at clearance period.

Well, if you are looking for high-end mobile phones then various deals offers subsidized rates with easy monthly rental plans. Mobile phone deals entails mobile phone user to possess latest mobile phone with advanced technology at cheaper prices. To brief about deals service providers have contract deal, pay as you go deal, 12 month free rental deal, and so on. Like in contract mobile phone deal allures the attention of user who needs larger talktime and attractive mobile handsets. With a little difference 12 month free line rental is benefited for those users who are looking for 12 month free line rental contract. Some users focusing on the budget can opt for pay monthly mobile phone deal where the mobile bills are paid monthly with fixed monthly rental and variable user charges. Other than that in pay as you go deal users concentrate on the amount so that they can easily track their requirement of talktime.