Hugh Symons Communication (HSC) has launched its BlackBerry Partner Programme which it said was the UK’s first official BlackBerry distributor channel partner programme.

Unlockers were angry last week at the speed with which Apple is releasing software updates for the iPhone, rendering their work useless.

Orange has signed a deal with sports broadcaster Setanta to be the first mobile operator in the UK to broadcast Setanta Sports 1, 2 and Setanta Golf on its mobile TV portal.

Southwest retail chain JAG will undergo significant expansion in January after it completed its move to its new headquarters in Perranporth, Cornwall.

T-Mobile has released a new 40 pounds Flext tariff across all channels, giving dealers 10 pounds more commission per connection than on Flext 35.

Hugh Symons Communications (HSC) has released Orange’s home broadband propositions, Home Starter and Home Max, to the dealer channel.

O2 has questioned the new mobile number porting (MNP) regulation that industry regulator Ofcom laid down this month. Ofcom has set the deadline for MNP to be cut from five days to two hours by September 1, 2009.

In this week’s festive edition of the Mobile News podcast the team takes a look back at their predictions for 2007 and make new ones for the year ahead.

Telefonica has announced that Julio Linares has been promoted to chief operating officer.

O2 sales director Mark Stansfeld is leaving O2 in January although he will serve as a non-executive director on the O2 board.