CCS Mobile, One Point Comms, Pescado, Unified World and Totility move up to the top tier of operator’s dealer programme

Phones 4u blames 2011 full year profit dip on increasing cost of paying out on insurance claims on more costly smartphones, but says that its retail business is healthy and growing

Guest Motors deal takes Pure’s number of connections to over 7,000

Communications director of dealer sales moves to development role

Former Computer 2000 employee Jodie Way appointed in mobile accessories team

European financiers invest in cloud services company to help it hit £100m revenues by 2015

Firm looks to boost revenues by £30m by re-entering the high street

Birthday honours list recognises Carphone Warehouse founder for services to the mobile phone industry and charity

Overall profits rise, but sales revenues effected by lack of value pre-pay smartphones  

Chain’s 167 stores will be fitted out with free Wi-Fi so smartphone users can use the company’s app to help their shopping experience

Unified business communications provider CloudSelect to run off its own via its own network and UK data centres 

Machine-to-machine provider on course to increase number of M2M-connected contracts it sells in the UK and Europe by 41 per cent year-on-year

B2B dealer projecting sales of £120 million this year following its purchase of Shebang’s Go Mobile Purple Partnership franchise programme

Distributor rebrands today, giving it access to a host of services provided by the high street retailer 

Operator joins up with M2M service provider for the use of a Cloud-based management platform to give users total visibility of SIM cards connected to the network

Shebang’s Go Mobile franchises claim distributor has cut off credit line, leaving them without access to new stock

Royal Bank of Scotland joins unified communications provider’s group of banks, with finance deal to support its acquisition of Worldwide Group

Mobile security product for Android handsets to be available in all of the retailer’s stores from May 28

Managed hosting provider makes third acquisition in a week as it continues to expand its UK network capabilities 

Teresa Gualtieri will train at firm’s Birmingham HQ for six months before returning to Italy to run online retailer’s latest new website in Europe

Latest addition to Samsung’s Galaxy portfolio to be made available to customers the evening before the official release date

Managed data services provider targets top five hosting and cloud provider position in the UK this year following purchases of Firstserv and Serverstream 

Retailer adding features to its redesigned website to increase relationship levels between franchisees and customers, as well as pushing its B2B division

MVNO joins all major mobile retailers and operators in confirming sale of the follow-up to the Galaxy S II