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Orange Libon adds picture messaging to iOS app

by Mike Schramm (Apr 15th, 2013)

Libon is a messaging app backed by the European cell provider Orange that's making its way over to Android today, offering free calls, messaging and visual voicemail to smartphones on that side of the platform fence. But there's important news for us iOS users as well, as the app has also added ...

Faulty iPhone reportedly generated £19,000 bill

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 8th, 2013)

According to a report by the BBC, a faulty iPhone is to blame for a £19,000 (US$30,000) bill sent to UK resident Chris Bovis over the holiday season. Bovis claims Orange sent him the whopping bill for his usage during the months of October and November. Bovis said his regular bill is ...

iPhone 5 contract prices for UK phone networks published

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 14th, 2012)

The US isn't the only country whose residents are up early pre-ordering the iPhone 5 today. Other countries like the UK are also kicking off sales of the next generation iPhone. In the UK, customers have a variety of carriers, several different price points and even multiple retail stores from ...

Everything Everywhere, Explained: the UK gets LTE

by Richard Gaywood (Sep 11th, 2012)

Following the recent regulatory approval, UK telecoms operator Everything Everywhere today announced its new LTE service under the new EE brand name. The network is currently running in engineer testing mode in four cities (Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and London). With few users to congest the ...

Apple may become the new sponsor of the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 12th, 2012)

The Orange Prize for Fiction is a prestigious literary award in the UK that goes to one outstanding female writer every year. Until this past May the award, officially called the Women's Prize for Fiction, has been sponsored by UK telecoms provider Orange. However, after T-Mobile's merger with ...

iPad subsidy offers lure student customers in France

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 17th, 2011)

France telecom operator Orange has teamed up with France's Ministry for Higher Education to offer subsidized iPads to French university students for €1 a day. The deal comes at a time when iPads are becoming recognized as a boon to students in the classroom partly due to the educational ...

Orange CEO suggests iPhone 5 to launch in France on Oct. 15

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 14th, 2011)

Here's another iPhone 5 rumor to brighten your day. According to HardMac, Stéphane Richard, CEO of wireless carrier France Telecom-Orange, confirmed during an interview that the iPhone 5 will launch in France on October 15th. Richard said Orange has received information from Apple about ...

France Telecom CEO talks SIM cards, next iPhone, apps and more

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 23rd, 2011)

The CEO of France Telecom, Stephane Richard, recently spoke to Ina Fried at AllThingsD and spilled some juicy tidbits about how Orange (a global brand owned by France Telecom, which currently sells the iPhone in 15 countries) has worked with Apple. He also made some interesting comments about ...

UK carriers discount iPads

by Dana Franklin (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Orange and T-Mobile in the UK slashed prices for iPad models with 3G connectivity to as low as GB£99 with a 24-month contract. In addition to boosting new business for these popular mobile carriers, the "limited time" offers appear to be a strategy for clearing inventory ahead of the highly ...

Three will carry iPhone 4 in the UK, O2 cuts off unlimited data

by Dave Caolo (Jun 10th, 2010)

While American iPhone users are limited to a single carrier, the UK offers plenty of choice to customers. Three has announced that they will carry iPhone 4, with pre-orders beginning on June 15th. O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone were all confirmed on the 7th. Even poor math students will notice ...

Vodafone sells 100K iPhones in 7 days

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th, 2010)

Last September, Vodafone announced their intention to sell the iPhone in the UK and Ireland "...in early 2010." They spent most of 2009 prepping their networks for the traffic that the iPhone would bring. Now they've finally thrown the switch and sold 100,000 iPhones in just seven days. Vodafone ...

VP for France Telecom verifies Apple tablet on the way?

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2010)

French tech blog Nowhereelse.fr had a scoop of sorts this morning. It turns out that Stéphane Richard, VP of France Telecom, was interviewed by Europe 1's Jean Pierre Elkabbach today. During the interview, Elkabbach made a comment to Richard: "According to the weekly Le Point, (in) a few ...

Vodafone UK to start iPhone sales Jan. 14, 2010

by Ken Ray (Dec 21st, 2009)

Vodafone announced in September that it would start iPhone sales in the UK in early 2010. Two weeks into the new year is pretty early. The BBC says Vodafone will start its UK iPhone sales January 14, 2010. Vodafone UK CEO Guy Laurence says his company has been prepping its network for the ...

UK to get 4th carrier for iPhone

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 25th, 2009)

When I visited Liverpool last month, I saw that Tesco was everywhere -- as big box store, as a gas station, in smaller markets, and even Tesco Mobile, a joint venture with O2. So, it's no surprise to me to hear that Tesco is planning to offer the iPhone at its stores in the UK. A spokesperson ...

British carrier O2 to unlock out-of-contract iPhones

by Dave Caolo (Nov 9th, 2009)

In an interview with Times Online, Matthew Key, head of O2, shared his company's plans to allow users of out-of-contract iPhones to switch to other providers: "Once the iPhone becomes available on other UK networks, we will allow O2 customers to unlock their iPhones, although of course they will ...