Apple has now proposed a smaller standardized SIM card than is currently used, allowing its iOS devices to be marginally thinner.
UK carrier Orange seems to support the proposal:
We were quite happy to see last week that Apple has submitted a new requirement to (European telecoms standards body) ETSI for a smaller SIM form factor — smaller than the one that goes in iPhone 4 and iPad.
They have done that through the standardization route, through ETSI, with the sponsorship of some major mobile operators, Orange being one of them.
Processing would take some time, but thew first devices using those SIM cards could be out next year.
Result for: orange
Vodafone, Orange and O2 have all priced their iPad 3G data plans, with each offering micro-SIM cards, now.
O2 offers the following price tiers:
500MB per day- £2.00
1GB per month- £10.00
3GB per month- £15.00
Orange offers the following pricing:
200MB per day- £2.00
1GB per week- £7.50
3GB per month- £15.00
10GB per month- £25.00
Vodafone is the only to offer unlimited, and offers the following:
1GB per month- £10.00
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Result for: orange
The European Commission has cleared the proposed merger of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, a deal that would create the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom. The Commission cleared the merger after Orange and T-Mobile agreed to make changes to ensure competition in the market and to give up some of the wireless spectrum that would be allocated to the new company.
“I am happy that we managed to resolve the competition issues in this case quickly in close cooperation with the Member State concerned,” European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement. The Commission had raised concerns about the merger, in particular what effect it would have on 3UK, owned by Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.
“With the merger… there will be only four players in the UK, hence the concerns about the fate of 3UK,” it said,” the commission said.
“In order to address the competition concerns… the parties concluded a revised agreement with 3UK which will secure its position as a competitive force on the market. The Commission concluded that the commitments offered by the parties remedy the identified competition concerns.”
