Vodafone has signed a multi-year partnership with Superstruct Entertainment to be official connectivity partner of the Boardmasters music festival held in Cornwall in August

O2 stores will be offering free O2 data, texts and calls for up to a year to homeless people and those in povert who meet the qualifying criteria.

Telefonica MVNO, giffgaff is providing street newspaper the Big Issue with 250 refurbished smart phones which will be given to new sellers to enable them to generate cashless sales.  This is Big Issue’s first partnership with a mobile network, and the first time that Big Issue sellers have smartphones with NFC technology, The Giff Gaff supplied-phones

Mobile marketplace platform Mozillion has been certified by TikTok Shop as an approved refurbished mobile tech provider.

Xiaomi’s third quarter profit up 182.9 per cent hit a two-year peak.  Eurpoean smartphone market share now 23.3 per cent.

IT technology distributor TD SYNNEX has been appointed as a distributor for Allied Telesis in the UK and Ireland. Allied Telesis provides wired and wireless networking solutions tailored for harsh or demanding environments. The UK and Ireland distribution agreement builds on the established relationship between Allied Telesis and TD SYNNEX in the EMEA and North

Secondary market startup Reboxed has secured £1.6 million in seed funding from venture capitalist ACF Investors to develop its retail partner programs and Reboxed for Business service.

Leading re-commerce company Magpie is in takeover talks with both BT and pan-European alternative investment firm Aurelius Group A statement from musicMagpie said: “Discussions between the parties are ongoing and remain at a very early stage. Accordingly, there can be no certainty that any offer for the Company will be made from either of the

Over The Top business messaging traffic will surge to 375 billion messages by 2028, up from the 100 billion messages recorded so far 2023 according to Juniper Research. 

GlobalIT consultancy Accenture has invested £130 million in a minority stake of a joint venture with Vodafone to implement AI-driven technology in Vodafone’s Intelligent Services (VOIS).

Vodafone and unified comms managed service provider Onecom have agreed on a five-year deal for Onecom to deliver more Vodafone airtime, 5G, IoT and digital connectivity solutions to Onecom’s 70,000 business customers.??

Three’s proposed merger with Vodafone is now ‘vital’ to enable the required investment scale, said Three CEO Robert Finnegan. The network today revealed its Q3 results which showed total revenue of £1.8bn, an increase of two per cent over the same period last year. Three now has 10.7 million active customers, an increase of four per

An unusually high number of new iPhone 15 models are being traded for £500 to £1000 in just over a month after its release says secondary market provider Mazuma.

Virgin Media O2’s mobile contract base put on 50,000 new users in the third quarter of the year to a total of 16.1 million with monthly consumer contract churn remaining low at one per cent. 

Ofcom is holding a consultation over its plan to overhaul the licensing and configuration regulations governing customer-installed indoor mobile phone boosters.

The Mobile Phone Museum has partnered with the PK Porthcurno, Museum of Global Communications in a new exhibition on the 40-year history of the mobile phone.

BT Mobile was the most complained-about mobile operator between April and June, according to Ofcom.

The Unite trade union has attacked the proposed Vodafone and Three merger saying it is a threat to national security and will cost consumers £300 a year.

Apple could next year seize greater control of the used iPhone market as the popularity of refurbished iPhones chips away at sales of the brand-new models according to analysts CCS Insight. As part of its annual ‘Predictions for 2024 and Beyond’ event CCS Insight reckons, Apple will take direct action to dominate the secondary market

IT products and services distributor TD Synnex has promoted Simon Bennett, Senior Director of Enterprise Software and Cloud for the UK and Ireland to Managing Director of Advanced Solutions for the same region. Matt Child, (main pic) the current head of Advanced Solutions, becomes Senior Vice President of Digital for Europe, taking over from Andy

Just as you’re trying to get your head around the possibilities of 5G comes the news that Nokia has opened a 6G Lab in Bangalore, India.

Cellhire is to offer connectivity to more than 220 destinations with 700 network operators, following its latest partnership with the wholesale arm of Orange. Global telecoms provider Cellhire has worked with Orange since 1997 and is an MVNO on the Orange Wholesale France network, It will now introduce a “light MVNO” for voice and data

Nokia has launched a range of rugged 5G devices for use in environments such as ports, mines, chemical plants, and offshore oil platforms.

TalkTalk Group says it expects some redundancies in corporate functions as it demerges its main operating businesses into three standalone companies. These will be the B2B Wholesale Platform, TalkTalk Consumer, and TalkTalk Business Direct. The new companies will become operationally separate on November 1, and legally separate from March 1, 2024. Each division will be