With a Vodafone Iceland prepaid SIM card, visitors can travel in Iceland with their own mobile phone or smartphone, and make local calls without paying expensive roaming charges. Users can then top-up anytime and stay connected through the entirety of their trip.
Vodafone Iceland offers a basic starter pack, whereby users will be giving a SIM card with ISK 1000 credit. Travellers then also have the opportunity to use ISK 500 of the included credit to buy 300 MB worth of data for their smartphone.
In addition, users will also be given a local Icelandic phone number, international roaming capabilities, be able to receive incoming calls for free, and also use their existing phone (if unlocked).
Furthermore, in order to access 3G Internet in Iceland via smartphones, Vodafone’s prepaid plan gives users 5 MB of data per day at a small cost of ISK 90. If users exceed those 5 MB in one day, another ISK 90 is withdrawn from the account and users are then good for another 5 MB of data transfer.
The Vodafone Group, in co-operation with Vodafone Iceland, is one of the largest and most dynamic mobile operators in the world, ensuring its customers quality telecommunication services throughout the world.
For more information regarding prepaid SIM cards in Iceland, visit http://www.vodafone.is/en/prepaid. Also, to find out more about prepaid 3G with Vodafone Iceland, visit http://www.vodafone.is/en/getonline.
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Vodafone jumps into bed with Three in Ireland - The Register
Vodafone jumps into bed with Three in Ireland
Pair get a little place in Dublin
Posted in Mobile, 16th July 2012 08:21 GMT
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Vodafone and Three will be sharing cell sites and support infrastructure in Ireland, reducing costs to both parties while each operator maintains its network independence.
The operators aren't sharing networks, only the supporting infrastructure, but that's how Vodafone and O2 started in the UK before finally taking the plunge into cohabitation three years later. Three UK isn't so coy having jumped into bed with T-Mobile in 2008, and barely flinched when Orange was invited to join the fun a year later.
But in Ireland, Three will be taking a more cautious approach, setting up a Dublin-based joint venture to take control of the infrastructure on behalf of both companies, staffed with 60 bodies pulled out of the network operators.
Network sharing is all the rage these days, primarily because the days of competing on network coverage are past us. In most western countries, network coverage is all but ubiquitous, and the places without coverage don't generate enough revenue to be worth bothering with, so having separate networks increasingly looks like pointless replication.
In the UK we're moving towards having only have two physical networks, one shared between EE and Three, the other between Vodafone and O2. Some would push for further consolidation – a single network wholesaled to all the operators – but others contend that competition is still needed to drive deployment.
Certainly there will be more consolidation around the world, and this deal is likely to be the first step towards Vodafone and Three integrating their Irish networks further over the next few years. ®
Wobbly Chinese telecom giant 'may sack 12,000', shares nosedive - The Register
Wobbly Chinese telecom giant 'may sack 12,000', shares nosedive
ZTE struggle to get feds off its ass, cash in the door
Posted in Financial News, 16th July 2012 11:03 GMT
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Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE is in for a rough ride: its shares fell to a three-year low on Monday amid a profit warning and rumours that it may axe up to 12,000 workers.
The firm, second in the domestic market for telecoms equipment behind Huawei, warned last week that its net profits for the first half of 2012 could fall by as much as 80 per cent year-on-year. Its stock slumped by more than 17 per cent in Hong Kong this morning.
Beijing-based IT consultancy Marbridge Consulting published rumours on Friday that ZTE may be preparing to jettison about 12,000 staff this year, with overseas workers particularly at risk.
It said that there had already been three rounds of employee recalls and lay-offs in overseas offices since the Chinese New Year on the back of sliding market share. It added that cash-flow problems have intensified in some markets where big contracts have led to long delays before payment.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, ZTE has been rocked by a series of probes into shady business practices.
The European Commission is investigating ZTE and and Shenzhen neighbour Huawei over allegations that the Chinese government illegally subsidised the firms, enabling them to offer their kit to customers at below cost, a process known as "dumping".
In addition, news emerged last week that the FBI is looking into allegations that the firm illegally sold US technology to Iran and then tried to cover up its dealings when exposed by journalists.
The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee is also on the case, investigating the firms’ ties with the Chinese government and accusations that their kit may pose a national security risk.
Meanwhile, executives from both firms were sentenced in their absence to serious bribery offences in Algeria.
Back in December analysts voiced concerns about ZTE, with Gartner downgrading its evaluation of the firm's strategy from "positive" to "promising":
In 2011 ZTE added enterprise telecom solutions and cloud computing to its portfolio, further expanding its product line. However, this market expansion had a negative impact on the company's cash flow in 1H11. As a cost leader in the market, aggressive expansion could put its financial status at risk.
ZTE did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the rumour of mass lay-offs. ®
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