New Orange/T-Mobile joint venture to result in closures of 120 retail outlets across the UK, saving both companies £85 million per year in operating and distribution costs

3 UK performs last-minute u-turn on onerous clawback terms for resellers connecting business contracts

Call centre and customer service departments to keep maximum number of staff as Orange/T-Mobile joint venture aims to look after 38 million customers

Ofcom appoints Hyacinth Nwana as spectrum policy group leader and Steve Unger as new chief technology officer

GSMA partners with European Commission to rollout eCall emergency service that allows vehicles to contact emergency services via an embedded SIM

Vodafone follows up corporate unified communications proposition with SME version, available via its direct channels, its mobile dealer partners and a range of new IT reseller partners

Ethnic market MVNO Lycamobile hits ambitious first-year target of 1.2 million prepay customers

Anthony Riley joins the board from Daisy Group subsidiary Daisy Communications and takes over from Stewart Porter

T-Mobile UK sales and customer service director Gordon Ballantyne falls foul of new boss Richard Moat’s new T-Mobile regime; consumer sales head Mark Duncan promoted to the role