Vodafone Italia launches new service enabling top-up via Facebook (Italy)
Vodafone Italia, the second largest mobile network operator in the country, has reportedly launched a service enabling users to recharge their mobile via social networking site, Facebook. With an increasing number of consumers using their mobile phone to access a wide range of services, the operator has offered its users a more easy and convenient way of recharging their account, irrespective of their location.
As per sources, the new app enables users to top-up their number via their profile page on Facebook. Further, it has been reported that they can also recharge the number of their friends or their acquaintance. Presently, the operator has permitted recharge amounts of US$ 6.6, 13.3, 19.9, 33.3, 66.6, 106.6, 133.3 and 200, payable through credit cards including Visa, Mastercard, Maestro and VPay.
AgCom speeds up mobile spectrum auction (Italy)
AgCom Italys’ Communications Authority has redecided to speed up the auction of the new frequencies to be allocated to mobile operators.
The Authority has adopted a draft regulation of the auction which will now be subject to public consultation. On the market, will be eventually offered 300 MHz of new frequencies, a significant portion of the band, that the regulator plans to make available to Telecom Italia, Vodafone Italia, Wind, 3 Italia and also to any new entrants.
The frequencies being auctioned will come from the so-called digital dividend i.e. frequencies to be vacated by 2012 by local TV channels.
Vodafone Italia introduces socially responsible web portal (Italy)
Vodafone Italia has launched a portal ‘infamiglia.vodafone.it’ which is intended to help parents, grandparents and children use new technologies and mobile phones in a conscious and responsible way.
The portal will allow adults to join discussions in which they can share their experiences with new media as well contact a team of experts on new technologies.
In addition, children can watch educational videos and join a forum where they can exchange their views and experiences. A video called ‘Posta con la testa (Publish using your head)’ on the subject ‘socially responsible publishing of online content’ is also available on the portal.
Vodafone Italia expects more smartphone sales
Vodafone Italia Chief Executive Paolo Bertoluzzo sees sales of smartphones to grow in future months supported by the launch of products at competitive prices.
Vodafone Italia, a unit of Vodafone Group PLC, has recently started to sell Ideos phones at US$131.08. According to the CEO, it is a competitive price that will allow more customers to use the internet in a different and fast way.
Bertoluzzo also reiterated that the company will invest US$1.3 billion in the next three years in broadband infrastructure and plans to cover one municipality per day.
Italy telcos ink MOU for High-Speed broadband infrastructure company
As per Industry Minister, Paolo Romani, Italian telecoms operators have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the formation of a new company to build a high-speed broadband infrastructure.
According to Romani, the new company will be responsible for building a basic fiber-optic infrastructure, avoiding duplications and coordinating investments by Italy’s seven leading operators. The companies include Italy’s largest operator Telecom Italia SpA, Fastweb SpA, Wind SpA, Vodafone Italia, Tiscali SpA, BT Group PLC’s Italian unit, and 3 Italia.
The new company, which will be based on both public and private funds, will have an executive committee chaired by the Industry ministry and will include one representative from each of the seven telecoms operators. The committee will be in charge of defining the new company’s governance and business plan within the next three months.
Romani confirmed that state-controlled fund Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) will play a role in the new broadband infrastructure company, providing the company’s capital or loans.
Telecom Italia , Chief Executive Franco Bernabe has welcomed the agreement among the operators stating that it will contribute to the re-launch of broadband in Italy.
According to Fastweb’s board member Stefano Parisi, the new company was an important step forward, but added its success will be influenced by the action of Italy’s telecoms regulator AGCOM, which will have to set clear rules.
Legambiente and Vodafone Italia: Together in Ivrea to “Clean up the World”
Ivrea, 20 September – Legambiente and Vodafone Italia are devoting a day to clearing the Olivetti architectural areas in Ivrea as part of the “Clean Up the World” initiative supported by Vodafone for the second year running with the voluntary contribution of its staff.
Over 20 employees from the Ivrea offices, together with Legambiente, schools and any local people who wish to join in, are once again committed to removing waste paper and weeds from the areas around the Olivetti social services centre in Via Jervis (opposite the caretaker’s lodge) and the overlooking parking lot.
Given the historic significance of these areas for Ivrea’s inhabitants, Legambiente and Vodafone Italia have decided to select them as the first phase of the project. Further evidence of Vodafone’s close link with the region is the fact that it has almost entirely funded and is now completing a conservative restoration of the ICO Workshops, supervised by the architect Giacopelli and the Benini studio.
Vodafone Italia’s commitment is in keeping with its decision to be an environmentally responsible company and undertake a Corporate Social Responsibility programme. Following its commitment to Corporate Responsibility, since 2001 it has issued a Corporate Responsibility Report for each financial year.
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