He will hand over reins to Chief Operating Officer Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete after 16 years running Spain’s biggest mobile operator and O2 owner

The Middlesex-based manufacturer’s device will be stocked by South African retailer Ackermans

MTS in Greece claims Vodafone has acted in contrary to European competition laws across its European network

The network claims KPN abused its dominant market position in the Dutch telecoms market

Xiaomi and Huawei both sold more smartphones in world’s biggest market than iPhone maker during Q2

BMW, Mercedes and Audi parent Daimler close to agreeing purchase of HERE (formerly Nokia Maps) as part of their connected car strategy

He joins from global gaming and lottery company GTECH and succeeds Marcelo Claure, who left to become CEO of Sprint Communications in August

Research from Ovum predicts communication companies will spend $2 trillion on capital expenditure between 2014-2019

Internet activity now costs 16p per megabyte, with the cost of making calls falling 21 per cent to and sending a text by 25 per cent to 5p per message

Brendan Eich lasts just two weeks in job after it emerged he donated to Californian anti-gay marriage campaign

The car manufacturer will deploy the devices across its offices in France and Spain

The rise of over-the-top messaging applications is behind the drop in SMS revenues, which will be largest in Asia Pacific and Italy

The EU’s competition authority, the European Commission, has given Vodafone unconditional clearance to complete its acquisition of the German cable company

The European Commission has proposed banning incoming call charges within the EU from July 2014

Vodafone’s acquisition of the cable company will bring its number of mobile customers in the country to 32.4 million

Tech Data Mobile president Rod Millar will continue president role from US office. 

US operator AT&T is set to drop HTC First handset according to news sources in the country

National Mobile Phone Crime Unit to begin looking into issue next month as it seeks to clarify ‘low-level’ information it has received

Vote means from July 1 roaming charges will be capped at 24p per minute for calls, 7p per minute for texts and 58p per megabyte for data

Competitive and economic pressures on vendor partners and customers blamed for steep profit drop, despite revenue jump

GSMA is in talks with local authorities to ensure a proposed transport strike during MWC is called off but claims to have contingency plans in place should these fail

Former Three CEO Kevin Russel has been appointed chief operating officer of Australian operator Optus, taking charge of SME division amongst others

Another 3,500 jobs to go, with Nokia’s manufacturing plant in Cluj, Romania as well as offices in the US and Germany due to shut

New director general Anne Bouverot appointed to head up programmes and initiatives on behalf of association’s members