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Released: 2006-02-14
Vodafone and Google team to create innovative mobile search experience
for mobile phone users
Vodafone today announced that it is collaborating with Google to
develop innovative mobile search services for its customers.
Vodafone will integrate Google's search capability into its consumer
service, Vodafone live!, providing customers with the most relevant
information, wherever they are and whatever time of day it is.
Google's search results will be delivered through Vodafone's high speed
data networks. Combining Vodafone's mobile expertise with Google's
search capability will ensure that customers can quickly and easily
find what's relevant to them. The new service will offer simultaneous
search both on Vodafone live! and the wider Web.
Vodafone's integration of Google search will take the mobile internet
to a new level. Vodafone live! was the first mobile service to make
data services easily accessible to mobile customers. Whether checking
the weather, looking for a restaurant or getting the most up-to-date
news, consumers want search services that meet their everyday needs.
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Orange and Vodafone to link mobile Instant Messaging communities
13 February 2006, 3GSM World Congress, Barcelona. Orange Group and
Vodafone Group ("the companies") today announced they are finalising an
agreement to be the first multi-national mobile operators to launch
Instant Messaging interoperability, with the intention to link Instant
Messaging communities using the familiar "calling party pays" principle.
Working under the open standard interoperability principles,
established by the GSM Association, Orange and Vodafone customers will be able to
send and receive Instant Messages to friends and family seamlessly
across each others' mobile networks.
"As we have seen over the last few years, service interoperability has
unlocked the true potential for mobile. While we, as mobile operators,
need to compete at the retail level, we must also continue to work
together at the service interoperability level in order to stimulate
customer demand and to continue to grow our industry," said Arun Sarin, Chief
Executive at Vodafone. "With the support of the GSM Association, we
hope to encourage all mobile operators to adopt this open, interoperable
approach to instant messaging services, to ensure our customers benefit
from seamless services in an environment they trust."
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Vodafone signs strategic 3G handset partnership with Huawei
Vodafone Group and Huawei Technologies announced today a landmark
agreement that will see the Chinese manufacturer supply exclusive
Vodafone-branded consumer 3G handsets for Vodafone across 21 countries
for at least 5 years.
The handsets will only carry the Vodafone name, the first time the
company has offered devices branded in this way for the consumer
market. The agreement demonstrates Vodafone's ability to utilise its
scale to deliver increasing value to its customers.
The agreement marks Huawei's first significant entry into the European
handset market. Vodafone anticipates offering the first
Vodafone-branded, Huawei-manufactured handset, a 3G model, in September
2006.

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