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Archive for December, 2007

The Company

Virgin Network is UK’s leading virtual mobile network operator with over 4 million customers. This was the world’s first Mobile Virtual Network Operator that was launched in 1999. Virgin Mobile Phone UK is a subsidiary of Virgin Media. Virgin Mobile brand is used by several mobile phone service providers operating all over the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa and France. This was first formed as a joint venture between T-Mobile and the Virgin Group. The brand’s wide appeal among the UK population has earned the recognition as the most admired brand in the UK according to HPI Research. Its customers that are you were named as the most satisfied mobile consumers in the pre-pay sector for two consecutive years in 2004 and 2005 by the J.D.Power and Associates. It is also featured as one of the 100 Best companies to work for list of the year 2005.

Products and Services

The Virgin Mobile Phone network offers a broad range of products and services such as mobile voice and non voice services, 3G, SMS, MMS, and other entertainment services for you through the Virgin Mobile portal. Other services include information, music services, games and international roaming are made available to you through the 5000 outlets in the UK.

Virgin Mobile USA

This is a joint venture between Virgin Group and Sprint Nextel. It is a cellular telephone company and is one the first companies in the US to offer Pre-Paid cellular service since its operations since 2002. It uses Sprint’s CDMA based Personal Communication Service, PCS Network. It has its headquarters in Warren, New Jersey. The company has offices in New York City and its IT offices are located in Walnut Creek, California. Many home agents based in several other cities throughout the US are contracted through West Corporation. Customer support is provided by ICT group in many cities. The company’s website and various other retail outlets sell the handsets and airtime. The retail outlets include Wal-Mart, Best Buy, RadioShack, Target, Sprint Store etc., in addition to grocery and drug store chains like Safeway, Kroger, Walgreens, Meijer, Rite Aid etc. Virgin Mobile USA has no retail outlets of its own.

UK based Virgin group started Virgin Mobile, the virtual mobile communication network company in 1999. It enjoys the recognition of having the most satisfied customers and is among the 100 best companies to work for. This speaks volumes about the Virgin Mobile Contract, its products and why are those satisfied customers.

O2 Mobile Network is a leading provider of mobile communication services throughout Europe to 35 million active mobile users. O2 Asia Pacific is a member of the O2 group that caters to consumers like you in Asia Pacific and Middle East providing premium mobile services and data devices. These services contribute to enhance business solutions and fulfill lifestyle needs. Headquartered in Singapore, this network has offices in Malaysia, Korea and Australia with a sister company in Hong Kong.

O2 Connect

O2 Network (Connect) can be accessed through GPRS, ActiveSync or Wireless LAN. On being connected you can sync the information into your mobile phone to read it offline later on. Its exclusive applications can enhance usage of your handset. Other applications are incorporated to do many more things using the device.

O2 Plus

Here the application manager lets the user control the entire applications with a wealth of information about the Today screen and the names of applications currently running such as call divert status, alarms, sound profile, tasks and appointment status etc. It has provision for an addition of 7 custom items into the Today screen. It supports the display of network operator’s name and all call -divert profiles. It shows you the name of the last caller and the phone number. The meters can display the remaining battery power, available memory space in the main storage and storage card. It shows your appointments for the next 10 days and the number of display lines can be determined. It guides you through the short cuts to applications.

This dialer application makes both local and overseas calling a simple and fast for you. These devices have reduced the steps and keystrokes needed for you to make phone calls and its special editor allows you to edit the phone numbers. The enhanced dialing facility intuitively filters the contacts to increase the dialing speed. You can store the IDD prefixes and the card dial sequences can be added to it prior to making a call eliminating the need to carry the calling cards along. It also allows you to block unwanted calls.

A mobile phone from the network: O2 Xda Atom

This is a compact light weight and has a pleasing and Stylish Mobile Phone weighing 140 grams. It is highly ergonomic and brilliantly colored QVGA TFT LCD touch panel-enabled display. Complete with stereo speakers, omni-directional mono microphone and it is very easy for you to navigate because of the user friendly buttons.

O2 Mobile Phone network is a European major providing premium mobile service and data devices and caters to the entire Asia Pacific region and Australia. O2 network services and applications makes your mobile phone a real smart companion as it offers several user friendly applications to make your life easy.

The way you use your mobiles keeps changing more frequently than ever. The advancement in technology and changes in business environment taking place all over the world make it possible to innovate and do things better for a better life. For example, Orange Network mixes voice, text and international data usage and harnesses any other services to get the job done. Orange network designs the new plans for you letting you choose the best values for your specific business needs. A sole trader, small business, medium or large enterprise, Orange packages ably complement the convergence of business and lifestyle.

Orange Solo

Orange Solo from the Orange Mobile Phone network includes everything that is expected of Orange plus orange Care to ensure that your lost, stolen or faulty handsets is replaced immediately. There are three simple plans priced at £30, £35 and £40 ranging from 400 to 800 minutes that come with 50 percent extra minutes with a 24 month contract for you. The promotional offer gives you unlimited calls to landline phones and unlimited text fro businesses that may need to sue mobile email and mobile Internet.

Orange Venture

Orange Venture also from the Orange network is suitable for small ventures consisting of up to 10 employees by business owners like you who are always on the move and need a single plan to manage both your business and personal work and lives. This simple plan has 7 price points for you to choose priced at £28 to £165 per month with 275 to 3400 minutes. It includes unlimited calls between your sharing partners and the mid contract review puts you on the best plan. The promotional offer gives you 40 percent extra minutes and unlimited off peak calls to UK landline phones and Orange Phones for the subscribers of 24 month contracts.

Orange Momentum

Larger enterprises can go for Orange Momentum from the Orange network that allows your employees to work in the way they need to. This plan has nine price points that range from £155 for 2,500 minutes to £3,000 for usage of 45,000 minutes. It includes unlimited calls and texts between your sharing partners that facilitate free communication between your colleagues. This has a three -month promotional offer of up to 25 per cent or unlimited calls to Orange mobiles that is available with long time contracts.

Business Advance

To eliminate this headache, Orange network has launched Business Advance that is specially designed for you to reduce the hassle of managing the Business Mobile Phone usage.

As the way conducting businesses are changing frequently, the need for more helpful features in their communication devices and services have been exclusively provided by the Orange network to your who are its mobile users. Orange mixes voice, text and other services to make it convenient for the user to manage business and life better.

Vodafone Group Plc is a mobile network operator headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, England, and UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about £84.7 billion (July 2007). Vodafone currently has equity interests in 27 countries and Partner Networks (networks in which it has no equity stake) in a further 40 countries. The name Vodafone comes from Voice data fone, chosen by the company to “reflect the provision of voice and data services over Mobile Phones.

Racal Electronics plc’s subsidiary Racal Strategic Radio Ltd. won one of two UK cellular telephone network licenses. The Vodafone network, known as Racal Vodafone was 80% owned by Racal, with Millicom and the Hambros Technology Trust owning 15% and 5% respectively. Vodafone was launched on 1 January 1985. Racal Strategic Radio was renamed Racal Telecommunications Group Limited in 1985. On 29 December 1986 Racal Electronics bought out the minority shareholders of Vodafone for GB£110 million. In the United States, Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, the country’s second largest mobile carrier.

The company has 241 million customers worldwide in 27 markets across 5 continents. This makes them the second largest mobile network in the world behind mobile China.

The Company’s ordinary shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Company’s American Depositary Shares (’ADSs’) are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company had a total market capitalization of approximately £88 billion at 3 July 2007.

The company believes in providing a seamless cost effective service to its customers by providing a competitive advantage. Vodafone Mobile Phone network provides quality products supported by excellent service anytime, anywhere and at a price that is affordable.

The company has also now moved into integrated mobile and PC communication services. The Vodafone Network provide the service wirelessly through 3G and HSDPA (High-Speed Download Packet Access), and also using fixed line broadband services like DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). They have also extended their reach into the office by delivering richer business applications and integrated fixed and mobile services, such as higher speed internet access.

They recently introduced the Vodafone live! On the on-handset communications and multimedia portal, which gives you access to services like games, ring tones, news, sports and information. It is at present available in 28 countries.

3 Mobile works under the company name Hutchison 3G UK Limited. It is the largest 3G mobile phone network in the UK and Europe and concentrate in providing the latest 3G mobile phones. 3 are at a significant moment in the history of communications and media. They have formed a different type of business by defining a new category which fuses together information, communication, media and entertainment in to a single mobile device. This is a network that is known for bringing the new form of communication into existence with the kind of service that it offered to the Mobile Phone users all over the world.

In 2003, 3 launched the UK’s first video mobile network to bring new and better services to the mobile media market. Given 3G was a new technology, 3 undertook one of the fastest network rollouts in UK history and met their license regulatory requirements three years ahead of schedule.

Today they have 10 million customers world wide. In UK alone they have around 3.5 million subscribers as the company delivers much more than any other mobile phone network.

The company specializes in 3 core areas communication, media and entertainment and information services. Communication includes all forms of personal communications, voice and video calling; text picture and video messaging; and mobile blogging. Media and entertainment concentrates on areas like television, sport, music audio and video, user-generated content, computer games and media publishing. Providing wireless web, access to the best of the internet and a range of news and other information services falls under the information service sector.

A 3G Mobile Network is dissimilar to current networks because it’s able to deliver excellent, media-rich substance including audio and video, to a mobile handset. It facilitates you to see and hear video clips, and send and receive multimedia content and information many times faster than is possible over today’s current networks.

The company also has the facility to deliver information, entertainment and communication on the go. It recently introduced the HSDPA (High Speed Data Packet Application) and ISHO (Inter-System Call Handover) both which improve the quality of service that the customers receive. HSDPA allows content to be downloaded 3 times faster than current 3G speeds while ISHO lets calls cross seamlessly between 3G and 2G networks.