Monthly Archives: October 2007

Orange an Official Sponsor of the Rugby World Cup 2007

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Rob

I’m currently on a conf call and the speaker just reminded us that Orange is the sponsor of the Rugby world cup and thanked the team as all was going great so far.

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Orange considers Christmas without the iPhone of APPLE

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Rob

It looks like France won’t see the iPhone before the key christmas trading period. The stumbling block appears to be France Telecom’s group fear that Apple can’t lock the device correctly to thier network. So it’s pretty clear that Orange … Continue reading →

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IBM outsources remaining network team to AT&T

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Rob

This is a really interesting story as I worked in this team about four months back, before leaving to join Orange. Back in 1998, about 90% of IBM’s networking was sold to AT&T, only the Local Area Network teams around … Continue reading →

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The new roaming SMS

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Rob

Following the update to the roaming pricing in Europe, you now get a text message telling you the cost of calls and SMS. Here’s the one I got two days back;

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