HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) arrested six people in Scotland during early morning raids last month as part of an investigation into a suspected 20 million pounds VAT fraud.

London dealership Chatterbox.com said last week it had paid 6.5 million pounds of its 7.5 million pounds cashback debt to customers, but wanted further funding from 3 to pay the remainder.

An Avenir dealer is understood to have fraudulently migrated 46 ‘imaginary’ customers from prepay to high-paying contracts, temporarily costing Avenir’s entire dealer base its T-Mobile connector codes.

Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff last week called the lack of information available about cashback-affected customers and businesses a “conspiracy of silence”.

Midlands dealership Phonebox has expanded its board of directors on the back of it national B2B rollout last year.

Fone Logistics has signed a deal with OpenHand to make two versions of its email software available through its B2B base.

Total connections up 11 per cent

In this week’s Mobile News podcast Mainline business channel marketing manager Stephen Spillett talks about Mainline’s new marketing Blueprint for its affiliated dealers.

Motorola has announced the launch of the MOTO Z10, an upgrade to its Z8.