We’ve already featured the new TomTom HD Traffic service a few times (although it’s still not available in the UK), which uses anonimised data from Vodafone’s mobile network to calculate traffic delays on roads.  Well, Orange have announced that the Orange Labs have been working on a similar technology.  They’ve been working on this without a SatNav vendor (like TomTom), and are currently expecting to only provide a B2B (Business 2 Business) service, which may well mean that they are looking to sell this service to the likes of Mio, Garmin etc. for them to brand it as their own service.

Orange have been working on this for a couple of years, and hope to launch their first service in France in 2009, and they have announced plans to then also cover Spain, UK and Belgium, and eventually also covering Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

With companies such as Garmin needing a competitive service to the TomTom HD service, this may well be the answer for them.

Story courtesy of GPS Business News.

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