Vodafone 3G plans now start from Rs 25 for 25 MB data usage and go up to Rs 1,599 for 12 GB data usage. Under the pay-as-you-go for pre-paid customers, the rate has been cut by 80 per cent to 2 paise per 10kb.
With reduction in tariffs, Vodafone also announced there will be no additional charges for roaming on data usage. "Additionally, Vodafone will now allow its customers to use data from their bundle package while on-net roaming across any location in India without any additional charge," a company statement said.
Last month, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications had reduced tariffs for its third generation (3G) high speed internet services.
"With the introduction of these plans, we aim at establishing a foundation for providing a 3G data plan for everyone, making it affordable to the masses in the country," Vodafone India Chief Commercial Officer Sanjoy Mukerji said in a statement.
The 3G tariff war is happening at a time when most of the operators are up in arms against the high reserve price of spectrum proposed by sectoral regulators Trai. The government is likely to take a decision on spectrum price in the Empowered group of Ministers meeting on July 21.
The operators have warned that mobile bills could increase by up to 100 per cent in certain circles if the proposals are accepted. According to industry experts, the price war in 3G tariffs may be an effort to cash huge investments made by telecom operators.
The government had received over Rs 67,000 crore from the 3G auctions held in 2010. With operators taking huge loans to pay for the 3G licences, experts say operators are under pressure to recover the investment.
Spotify brings streaming radio to iPhone, iPad app - YAHOO!
Spotify Launches Free Mobile Radio in the US
Latest update for iOS app includes radio you can save
Starting today, Spotify users in the US can play for free on iPhone and iPad. The latest update to Spotify’s iOS app includes the new radio feature, giving free users in the US access to an unlimited amount of music on the move. The update is now available for download in the App Store.
The new radio feature for iOS is seamlessly integrated into the Spotify service, creating an unmatched user experience of listening, discovering, saving and sharing music, from a catalog of more than 16 million songs.
Spotify users on iPhone and iPad can now:
- Create limitless streaming radio stations from single songs, playlists, albums or artists
- Create an unlimited number of stations and listen as long as they like
- Save tracks to Spotify playlists – any song that users “like” will be saved, so they can find the songs later
- Personalize stations in real time by “liking” tracks to hear similar music
- Browse friends’ playlists and create radio stations based on their tastes
- Hear great new songs from Spotify’s state-of-the-art recommendation engine, based on what millions of real people are listening to
- Access a catalog of over 16 million tracks
“Our focus has always been on creating an amazing user experience,” said Charlie Hellman, VP, Product at Spotify. “The radio feature we’ve added to our iPhone and iPad apps gives users the ability to discover, listen and save what they like on the go – all within one app – for free.”
Premium users of the Spotify iOS app will continue to have an ad-free experience. Free users in the US will hear advertisements from the following launch partners: Chevrolet, Durex, Heineken, Red Stag by Jim Beam, Lipton Iced Tea, Macy’s, McDonalds, Progressive, Red Bull, Taco Bell, Verizon Wireless, and Warner Bros – all of which are current Spotify advertisers.
The new Spotify radio feature will also be available to Premium users outside of the United States.
Cable & Wireless shareholders approve $1.67bn Vodafone buyout - ZDNet
Cable & Wireless Worldwide shareholders have overwhelmingly agreed to a takeover worth £1.04 billion ($1.67bn) in cash by mobile phone giant Vodafone.
The cable behemoth operates a series of high-speed networks to police and governments, along with owning a vast array of more than 400,000 kilometers of undersea cables connecting around 150 countries.
The mobile phone giant is now the second-largest telecoms company in the U.K. after British Telecom.
It also operates the largest fibre network in the U.K.; one of the reasons Vodafone wanted to buy the company in the first place.
The move allows Vodafone to break away from BT’s infrastructure, which it had heavily relied on before the deal.
But the deal was close to being vetoed by a major shareholder that believed the company could be worth more.
Bermuda-based Orbis, which owns 19 percent of Cable & Wireless Worldwide, caved into the bid at the eleventh-hour after admitting the deal would likely go ahead sooner or later.
The major shareholder had threatened not to pass the deal claiming 38p ($0.62) a share undervalued the company. But Orbis wanted something in the region of 40–45p ($0.62–$0.70) per share.
Vodafone actually bumped the figure from its 32p ($0.51) a share at market close on April 23 to sweeten the deal. Having said that, Vodafone is paying around 2 percent less than what Cable & Wireless Worldwide was worth on average during the past 12-months.
Vodafone needed 75 percent of the shareholder vote, but only managed 58.8 percent before the vote. But only 60 percent of shareholders were able to vote in the emergency meeting.
Orbis would have knocked the total over the magic mark. In the end, the tally reached a majority of 78.7 percent share — but Orbis threw its weight behind the bid to round up to a firm 99.1 percent.
Both Cable & Wireless Worldwide and Vodafone were up at market close.
Image credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET.
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The iPhone Turns Five Next Friday - Forbes
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The iPhone turns five on June 29th. This isn’t something I have marked on my personal calendar by the way–I am not that far gone about the device–it was brought to my attention courtesy Gazelle, a consumer electronics trade-in site when it reported on the findings of a recent survey.
So these surveys tend to be a bit self-serving and, not to pick on Gazelle or the gadget community, are common to just about every industry. In other words, take the following with a dash or two of salt.
Gazelle found that the majority of respondents (65%) cannot live without their iPhones, while only one percent say the same about Facebook. (Here I must digress to note that Facebook has been getting panned in a number of surveys lately to the point of piling on. Best example: two days before Facebook’s IPO, AP and CNBC released a survey that found that half of Americans see the social network as a fad).
Nearly 15% of Gazelle’s respondents also say they would rather give up sex than go without their iPhone for a weekend, which makes me wonder about some of my fellow iPhone owners (although to be fair the survey is unclear–does it mean no sex forever, or just none for the weekend in question?).
Changing Manners
Where the survey does ring very true is its observations about how the iPhone has changed manners and social expectations. Actually this can be attributed to all handhelds now, but since the iPhone was the first wildly popular consumer smartphone it gets the honors.
It found that more than 25% of survey respondents “almost always” use their iPhone in a social setting such as during a meal or while at a party and a combined 58% of respondents say they use their iPhone in a social setting either “usually” or “occasionally”.
BYOD Meets the iPhone at a Client Lunch
Here’s my question: as BYOD becomes more a matter of practice and not just a trend, how much will our love affair with the iPhone and other devices change business etiquette as well?
We’re already surreptitiously peeking at our phones during staff meetings (guilty), conferences (heck yes) and webinars our editors insist we watch (that goes without saying).
Is the day coming when we whip out our devices during lunch with a client or a sales prospect? A brief pause during a job interview maybe? My guess is that day is not too far off. I recently interviewed someone who told me he has actually seen some prospective job candidates get antsy when they learn they may not be able to use their own devices at work.
I can understand kicking up a fuss over a no-frills health insurance policy, but come on people. I wonder what we will be like when the iPhone turns ten.
iPhone bedding will keep you comfy - Phones Review
One for the iOS faithful today that simply must have everything Apple, so they can show their undying lover of Apple’s iOS smartphone, and their ultimate devotion to Apple, a three-piece iPhone bedding set to keep you warm and comfy when you hit the sack, so you can dream of all things iOS.
The iPhone three-piece bedding set is brought to our attention by the guys over at Ubergizmo by way of Inventor Spot, and enables the iPhone lover to curl up under a large sized touch screen display for possibly about a twin size bed, a matching iPhone pillow case, and a small iPhone cushion.
Unfortunately though there isn’t a great deal known about this three-piece iPhone bedding set, and even the person who originally posted the images of the set over on Baidu didn’t bother to say where the set can be purchase or what price tag the iPhone bedding set might command.
Obviously just for the lover of the iPhone, and not for rival Android fans, who no doubt would also love a bedding set sporting their little green robot, but for now at least it would appear the person simply isn’t letting on where you can get it.
However, if you are such a devoted iOS fan and simply much be able to go to sleep wrapped up in the likeness of your favourite smartphone, you can always head on over to eBay where you can place a bid for a single iPhone bedding set. Would you love to own an iPhone bedding set?
Vodafone cuts 3G tariffs by up to 80% - Economic Times
Vodafone 3G plans now start from Rs 25 for 25 MB data usage and go up to Rs 1,599 for 12 GB data usage. Under the pay-as-you-go for pre-paid customers, the rate has been cut by 80 per cent to 2 paise per 10kb.
With reduction in tariffs, Vodafone also announced there will be no additional charges for roaming on data usage. "Additionally, Vodafone will now allow its customers to use data from their bundle package while on-net roaming across any location in India without any additional charge," a company statement said.
Last month, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications had reduced tariffs for its third generation (3G) high speed internet services.
"With the introduction of these plans, we aim at establishing a foundation for providing a 3G data plan for everyone, making it affordable to the masses in the country," Vodafone India Chief Commercial Officer Sanjoy Mukerji said in a statement.
The 3G tariff war is happening at a time when most of the operators are up in arms against the high reserve price of spectrum proposed by sectoral regulators Trai. The government is likely to take a decision on spectrum price in the Empowered group of Ministers meeting on July 21.
The operators have warned that mobile bills could increase by up to 100 per cent in certain circles if the proposals are accepted. According to industry experts, the price war in 3G tariffs may be an effort to cash huge investments made by telecom operators.
The government had received over Rs 67,000 crore from the 3G auctions held in 2010. With operators taking huge loans to pay for the 3G licences, experts say operators are under pressure to recover the investment.
Vodafone cuts 3G rates by up to 80% - rediff.com
Vodafone on Tuesday slashed 3G tariffs by up to 80 per cent, becoming the fourth telecom service provider to reduce rates after Bharti Airtel [ Get Quote ], Idea Celluar and Reliance communication.
Vodafone 3G plans now start from Rs 25 for 25 MB data usage and go up to Rs 1,599 for 12 GB data usage.
Under the pay-as-you-go for pre-paid customers, the rate has been cut by 80 per cent to 2 paise per 10kb.
With reduction in tariffs, Vodafone also announced there will be no additional charges for roaming on data usage.
"Additionally, Vodafone will now allow its customers to use data from their bundle package while on-net roaming across any location in India [ Images ] without any additional charge," a company statement said.
Last month, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular [ Get Quote ] and Reliance Communications [ Get Quote ] had reduced tariffs for its third generation high speed Internet services.
"With the introduction of these plans, we aim at establishing a foundation for providing a 3G data plan for everyone, making it affordable to the masses in the country,"Vodafone India Chief Commercial Officer Sanjoy Mukerji said.
The 3G tariff war is happening at a time when most of the operators are up in arms against the high reserve price of spectrum proposed by sectoral regulators Trai.
The government is likely to take a decision on spectrum price in the Empowered group of Ministers meeting on July 21.
The operators have warned that mobile bills could increase by up to 100 per cent in certain circles if the proposals are accepted.
According to industry experts, the price war in 3G tariffs may be an effort to cash huge investments made by telecom operators.
The government had received over Rs 67,000 crore (Rs 670 billion) from the 3G auctions held in 2010.
With operators taking huge loans to pay for the 3G licences, experts say operators are under pressure to recover the investment.
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