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New Huawei Honour phone exclusive to dealer market

Data Select and 20:20 Mobile launch Â£250 Android handset from manufacturer this week

A1 Comms looks to repair dented confidence in Go Mobile stores

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

Carphone chairman Dunstone knighted

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

EE and Nokia Siemens team up to offer ‘smart’ vending

Innovative solutions to vending machine companies include contactless payment and remote management of stock

Phones 4u unveils new £10m advertising campaign

New campaign launches tomorrow night to promote smartphone upgrades with the retailer

Carphone Warehouse posts 5.5pc drop in revenues

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

Free O2 Wi-Fi to be installed in UK Debenhams stores

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

Alternative Networks announces 33pc profit increase

B2B provider’s half-yearly financial results show slight drop in turnover but rise in profits and mobile subscriber base

Six Degrees Group adds to management team

Acquisitive managed data services provider creates new group business operations director role for industry veteran Mike Ing

Daisy Group launches new Cloud product

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

Wireless Logic eyes one million M2M SIM sales by end of 2012

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

Excalibur strengthens team with new arrivals

Five staff recruited as Vodafone platinum partner looks to appoint a sales director and further four sales people in the coming weeks

Student gang get 62 years for violent phone store robberies

‘Well-off’ university students who stole Â£175k of cash and handsets from 19 retail stores jailed

A1 Comms to more than double turnover after Go Mobile buy

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

HSC rebrands as Carphone Warehouse Business

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

Carphone selling Lumia 710 for under £100

Second handset in the Lumia range goes on sale at the retailer for one week only

Galaxy S III is biggest selling handset of 2012 at Phones 4U

Latest high-end Galaxy handset from Samsung becomes retailer’s best selling of the year, based on pre-orders and first day sales

O2 and Jasper Wireless sign M2M platform deal

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

BrightPoint freezes Go Mobile accounts

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

Phones 4U reveals Galaxy S III is most pre-ordered handset ever

Retailer joins Carphone Warehouse in revealing new handset has broken pre-order records as it goes on sale today

Carphone sets up pop-up internet cafe for Samsung Galaxy S III

Customers given the chance to try the new handset before its release at the retailer’s flagship store on Oxford Street

Daisy Group signs £25m finance deal with RBS

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

Carphone to sell Norton Mobile Security in its stores

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

Carphone says Galaxy S III is fastest selling pre-order of 2012

Retailer says thousands placed a pre-order with it within 24 hours of the high-end smartphone being unveiled

Shebang to launch contract MVNO on Three’s network

MVNO to go live in Go Mobile shops and via the Go Mobile Network website in July, following the prepay variant launched by the company last October

Six Degrees continues acquisition push with purchase of Datahop

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

Mobile Fun recruits manager for Italian website

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

Dealers exceed sales targets during Mainline promotion

High-performers rewarded with vouchers for luxury sports car driving, golfing days and hot air balloon rides

Carphone Warehouse makes further drop in iPad 2 price

Price of iPad 2 reduced by a further Â£30-Â£50 at Carphone Warehouse

Retailer partners to get Galaxy S III before May 30 release date

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

Six Degrees acquires two more companies

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

Daisy spends £1m on bomb proof data centre in Manchester

Unified communications provider opens new facility within a former Bank of England bullion vault

EU votes to slash roaming charges

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

Fonehouse launching revamped website

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

Virgin Media to get Galaxy S III from the summer

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

Samsung Galaxy SIII named official handset for 2012 Olympic Games

Samsung and Visa announce limited edition NFC ready Galaxy SIII for the London 2012 Olympic Games

Carphone to stock Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0)

Latest addition to Samsung’s Galaxy tablet range to go on sale at the retailer later this month in silver and white

HSC to be rebranded Carphone Warehouse Business in June

HSC to be rebranded as Carphone Warehouse Business on June 1 in a move that will give the retailer the widest reach in the UK B2B market under a single brand

Intercity to go before tribunal over claims it forced out whistleblower

Business development manager claims breach of contract and says he was forced out after trying to expose attempts by the company to “massage” customer contracts

Major retailers and networks confirm Galaxy S III

Carphone Warehouse giving away a 10-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab and accessories to the first 1,000 customers that pre-order the new smartphone

BrightPoint profits down 71 per cent to £1.63m

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

O2 dealer Aerial rebrands in bid to dominate UC space

Company now known as Aerial Business Communications, splitting into four sub-brands to better communicate to customers the products and services it provides

Phones 4U to be first European retailer to stock Lumia 900

Retailer will sell both the black and white variants when the Nokia handset goes on sale on May 14, over two weeks later than previously announced

Union fears more job losses at EE as retail restructure confirmed

Prospect thinks more job losses are inevitable after 92-page confidential document reveals plans to overhaul retail operations

New giant dealer emerges from Premier Mobile/Phonebox sale

PMGC Technology inherits 54,000 connections and Â£10 million revenue stream to become UK’s second largest independent mobile dealer

Daisy buys Worldwide Group for £28m

Telecoms provider acquired audio-conferencing company as COO Gareth Kirkwood departs after two-and-a-half years

Tesco the first retailer to sell white Motorola Motoluxe

Retailer now ranging a white variant of the Android-powered handset, available for free on Â£20 a month contracts

Consumers wasting £5bn a year by being on the wrong tariffs

Research from Carphone Warehouse reveals the extent to which consumers are losing money by choosing the wrong mobile contract, with lack of awareness on what uses data cited as a key issue