LG Mobile has appointed former Benefon and Siemens marketing director Jeremy Newing as head of marketing for UK and Ireland.

Samsung Mobile has appointed Gary Twohig as its new country manger for Ireland, with a brief to sell 500,000 handsets in the Irish market next year.

20:20 has appointed IT man Meinie Oldersma as its new chief executive.

LG UK sales director John Barton said demand for its Viewty handset had taken LG by surprise.

Asda Mobile is giving away the Nokia 2310 when a customer buys 20 pounds of airtime for the handset as it attempts to gain prepay market share over Christmas.

Orange has found that mobile data services have generated nearly 22 per cent of network revenue in the last nine months.

A consortium lead by Vodafone has won the second mobile license in Qatar ending the last Arab telecom monopoly.

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Brightstar UK managing director Christina Meade has quit the company.

IGB, parent company of Unique Distribution, is developing a UK-based global MVNO targeting international business travellers.