Vodafone Portugal launches ‘web phone for Facebook’ service
Vodafone Portugal has launched ‘Vodafone web phone for Facebook’ service.
This service allows user to make and receive voice and video calls, as well as send and receive SMS and MMS with their Vodafone phone number, from the Facebook social network.
To use the service, customers need to access Vodafone Portugal’s Facebook page and select the Vodafone web phone tab. The application is available for use on PCs and Macs. The Vodafone web phone can also be installed from the operator’s website.
Voice calls, video calls and chats between Vodafone web phone users are free of charge. Voice calls, video calls, SMS and MMS to mobile and fixed networks are charged in accordance with the customer’s price plan. To mark the service launch, Vodafone has launched a ‘Happy Hours’ promotion, offering free calls to any Vodafone Portugal mobile phone from the Vodafone web phone. The Web Phone for Facebook service has been developed in partnership with Portuguese company WIT Software.
Vodafone Portugal begins Nexus S pre-registration
Vodafone Portugal is inviting customers to pre-register for the Samsung Nexus S smartphone.
The Nexus S will be available in Portugal in February. Designed by Samsung, the Nexus S runs the latest version of the Android OS, Gingerbread.
Customers can pre-register at the Vodafone Portugal website. Pricing details will be revealed later.
Vodafone Portugal eyes LTE
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Portugal has expressed its desire to implement LTE services by the end of 2011. The announcement was made by Capelas Fernandes, head of technology at Vodafone Portugal during a demonstration of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in Porta.
According to Fernandes, the deployment of LTE depends on the national communications authority ANACOM, releasing more radio spectrum. A public consultation on rights of use of frequencies in the 2.6GHz band had been launched by ANACOM in December 2008.
Vodafone Portugal introduces video calls for hearing impaired
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Now, deaf and hearing impaired people in Portugal can have access to video-interpreter service run by the Portuguese Association of the Deaf by dialing 12472 introduced by Vodafone Portugal.
The cost of the call would be 1.1 cents per minute and the number will set up a video call to a mobile phone for an interpreter in Portuguese Sign Language.
This service will allow the user to request various services such as call a taxi, arrange a medical consultation, request repairs services from home and others.
Vodafone Portugal to launch 43Mbps mobile broadband by year-end
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Deployment of HSPA+ Release 8 technology will be completed by Vodafone Portugal across its network by May 2010 with an aim to commercially launch the upgrade by year-end. The announcement was made after the successful demonstration of peak download speeds of 43Mbps, while claiming that upload speeds of up to 11Mbps will be available.
Currently, the deployment is carried out in partnership with Qualcomm and Ericsson. Although the completion of the up gradation is expected to be in the second quarter of 2010, the first compatible USB devices will be commercially available only until year-end 2010. The launch of the first handset can extend up to mid-2011.
FTTH jv agreement signed by Soneacom & Vodafone
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Sonaecom and Vodafone Portugal, Portuguese telecommunications operators joined hand to share, construct, manage, maintain and operate the next generation fibre optic network (NGN) in the main urban centers.
A new company owned equally by Sonaecom and Vodafone Portugal will look after the implementation of the agreement. The company also foresees the possibility of the NGN being available to other interested operators.
The agreement improves the economic rationale for investment in NGNs, with clear benefits to customers, besides maintaining the competition between the two companies and their commercial independence of action.
Vodafone Portugal calls on regulator to block PT takeover
Vodafone Portugal has issued a statement outlining its arguments against regulatory approval for a takeover of Portugal Telecom (PT) by Sonaecom. The company feels that measures presented by the competition authority (AdC) are unlikely to minimise the risk of distortion to competition. Notwithstanding the possible application of “remedies” by the AdC, the bid as it stands would reinforce dominance in several markets, giving the combined entity an over 60 percent market share. A move from three mobile operators to one large one and (possibly) two smaller ones would prejudice the smaller ones in a market where there a few new customers. Portugal’s present levels of accessibility, diversity, price and quality of services are at risk, Vodafone says, as the mobile operator resulting from the bid, part of a powerful commercial group, would hold a “hegemonic” position “unique in European markets”.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
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