A FUTURE cellphone data service from Britain’s Orange network will not be
accessible in France—despite the fact that Orange was last week acquired
by France Telecom in a £25 billion deal.
Orange confirmed last week that it will not be adopting General Packet Radio
Service (GPRS), a fast Internet delivery format that the rest of the
industry—including Orange’s new parent company—has embraced.
Instead, it is pressing ahead with plans to use a different standard, called
High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD), to increase the speed at which its
users receive WAP pages and e-mails. France Telecom says…
