www.WirelessFederation.com/news:

  • Orange to offer mobile broadband and a free dongle for under £5 per month
  • ‘Early Bird’ price plans introduced offering unlimited mobile broadband between midnight and 9am daily
  • New user controls developed to ensure Orange mobile broadband customers can monitor their download usage more effectively
  • Orange price promise on out of bundle UK data usage introduced

Orange has today expanded its mobile broadband portfolio with a selection of new price plans which includes a new offer of mobile broadband for less than £5 a month for existing Orange customers – the lowest pay monthly mobile broadband price plan on the market. This builds on Orange’s commitment to offer UK customers greater choice and value, making it even easier for UK consumers to get online and get the content they want.

Monthly Tariff for Under £5

For only £4.89 per month, all existing Orange mobile (pay monthly and pay as you go) and home broadband customers can enjoy the Orange Internet Everywhere service. Available on an 18 month contract, this great value package comes with a usage allowance of 500 Mb per month .. (more…)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange UK receives exclusive rights for the Toshiba TG01, a Windows Mobile handset. Orange will reportedly offer the handset across UK from today, for free of charge on select tariff plans.
Orange’s Toshiba TG01 comes with an 8GB MicroSD card, and it’s pre-loaded with a “GI Joe” trailer, which should make good use of the phone’s 4.1 inch WVGA display and its 1GHz Snapdragon chipset.
Part of Orange’s Signature Series, Toshiba TG01 features quick links and shortcuts to Orange TV & Video, Orange Maps and Orange World.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news:The highly anticipated Palm Pre will be launched in UK next week, and will be sold exclusively by O2. O2 has managed to grab the exclusive rights for the handset for several other markets.
According to a media report, O2 fought for the GSM Pre with Orange, and eventually won as it promised Palm a higher revenue share.
The price of the handset is not yet unveiled by the operator, though it wants to offer it for free on slect and expensive tariff plans.
O2’s exclusive rights for iPhone3G S and now Palm Pre in UK will surely help the operator to see a growth in its position in the British mobile market.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobistar, the Belgian mobile operator, will reportedly launch the apple iPhone 3G S across the nation on 26 June. The Apple device will be offered in two versions: a 16 GB model for 575 Euro and a 32 GB for 675 Euro.  The price  of the  current 8 GB iPhone3G. The  price  of 8 GB iPhone3G will drop to 475 Euro.  The prices for the My for iPhone tariff plans  remain unchanged  and also have integrated  MMS since 17 June.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: True Move, the Thai mobile operator, has introduced the BlackBerry Bold smartphone with three new tariff plans. The operator at first will target the corporate subscribers and will later expand the service to all its subscribers.
The three plans that True offers are:
The THB 499 plan – includes 30 MB of data, excluding Wi-Fi
The THB 599 plan – includes unlimited mobile data
The THB 899 plan – includes unlimited mobile data and unlimited data via W-Fi, as well as free on-net calls

All the plans come with voice calls to all networks at a flat rate of THB 1.25/minute, SMS for THB 1.25 and MMS for THB 5.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Portugal will roll-out the iPhone 3G ‘Speed’ smartphone in July. The device comes with the new iPhone OS 3.0 and is faster than the iPhone 3G. The pricing details and the tariff plans will be released over the next few weeks.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica has reportedly announced that the operator will launch the iPhone 3G ‘Speed’ smartphone in the Spanish mobile market on 19 June. The iPhone 3G S features the new iPhone OS 3.0, along with longer battery life. The device further comes with a 3 megapixel autofocus camera, compass and GPS, and a voice control feature. The voice control feature offers hands free operation for both iPhone and iPod functions. Telefonica will soon release pricing details and tariff plans for the device.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telenor, the Norwegian mobile operator, has reportedly announced that it will launch the Apple iPhone 3G S, the most fastest and powerful iPhone on 9 July’09. The operator will soon release the pricing and tariff plans.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Base, the Belgian mobile operator, has introduced new portfolio of products and tariffs, which are simpler and transparent. The new portfolio will offer five tariff plans: prepaid solution “prepaid”, and four postpaid solutions “postpaid 0″,”postpaid 1″, “postpaid 3″, and “postpaid 5″. The new tariff plans will come into effect from today. Base spokesperson Bart Vandesompele said on this day, the site will also be refreshed and new plans revealed.

Tata Teleservices Limited unveiled VoiceSMS offer powered by partnerships with world leaders Kirusa and Qualcomm. It will allow all Tata Indicom subscribers nationwide to send VoiceSMS’ directly from their stored contacts in the phonebook, cutting out the need to remember any number and key in complicated numbers prefixed by a star. Therefore, no star (asterisk) is needed. Just select the number to which you wish to send the VoiceSMS, select the VoiceSMS option, speak and send the message.
The procedure is similar to sending a text SMS, except that subscribers won’t need to type in the text of SMS but speak in your own voice. It’s simple, intimate and personal. Listening to a VoiceSMS has also been made very easy, so that even users who cannot read SMS messages can listen to the VoiceSMS.
The new VoiceSMS offer will enable Tata Indicom’s pre-paid and post-paid subscribers to send voice messages to any Tata mobile, landline, Walky or any other network’s mobile number in India. This enhanced VoiceSMS feature has been made available with technology expertise from Qualcomm and Kirusa.
Commenting on this new service, Pankaj Sethi , President (Corporate Services), Tata Teleservices Limited, said: “This launch is part of our strategy to provide Next-Gen value-added services to subscribers in both the pre-paid and post-paid segments. By introducing this service, we have extended a user-friendly and cost-effective mode of communication to our customers so that they can communicate with their loved ones with ease.”
On the choice of Kirusa as the technology partner for this service, Sethi added: “We chose Kirusa because of its proven ability to implement and deploy the VoiceSMS feature on our network. I am confident that this service will see a huge uptake and also considerably increase ARPUs.”
The new exciting service comes coupled with an attractive tariff plan—with each sent Voice SMS message being chargeable at Rs 0.80 only. Also, Tata subscribers will be able to listen to a new incoming VoiceSMS at no cost. Listening to any old VoiceSMS will cost only Rs. 0.30 per message. The BREW application is available free of charge. Non-Tata Indicom users pay normal call charges to listen to a VoiceSMS, as levied by their carrier networks.
To implement the VoiceSMS solution, Kirusa has integrated its VoiceSMS platform, with the Dialogic Vision Server, and Qualcomm’s BREW technology, into the Tata Telecom network.