Orange has opened its new flagship store in Cardiff. The network claims the shop will set a new benchmark for Orange retail in terms of both service and its range of offerings.

Former MoCo distribution head Bill Wilson has joined Fone Logistics as national sales manager.

MoCo has signed up two more IT agencies to boost mobile data sales by 10 per cent.

O2 launched three flat-rate data packages for contract and prepay customers last month.

Vodafone has agreed a deal to buy Tele2’s Spanish and Italian assets for $1.9 billion.

Carphone Warehouse has reported a slowdown in level of connections to its broadband services.

New advertising-funded youth MVNO Blyk will invite 250,000 new university students to join the network as Freshers’ Week rolls out across the country.

Telecom companies will now have to keep phone call logs for a year as a result of the Data Retention (EC) Regulations that came into effect on October 1.

Vodafone and O2’s networks would not be compromised if they were to hand some of their 900MHz spectrum back to Ofcom, an industry body spokesman said last week.

Telecoms distributor Rocom is pitching a new range of dualmode Bluetooth headsets from Plantronics and GN.