Unity partners will be given a gold silver or bronze status based on their quarterly performance and will be given unity benefits according to their level.

HSC business manager Bob Sweetlove said: Those dealers who are already part of the unity programme will continue to benefit as they always have but for those dealers who fall short of the historical criteria it will provide additional benefits to help improve their business.

We want to reward our partners for their hard work which is why the top tier of partners will receive even more from unity.

Recently the unity programme has seen the introduction of benefits such as car-kit installation services TalkTalk TomTom WORK and b2b marketing services.

HSC project manager Sophie Vincent said: The benefits are constantly updated to reflect the current business needs of the dealers. By introducing the new look unity programme we are supporting our valued partners and securing long-term business.

Customers who receive a scratch card stand a chance of winning tickets to see the UK premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum on 15th August including travel to London and hotel accommodation.

The MOTO Z8 includes new technology that displays video at 30 frames per second through a 16 million colour large QVA TFT screen which provides users with crystal clear viewing and sound when watching television.

Motorola has also signed a deal with BSkyB to allow its customers to download Skys Mobile content. Subscribers to the service will be able to watch an archive of sport entertainment and movies on demand. The service also offers customers the option of programming their Sky + box directly from their handset.

The MOTO Z8 is available from free on selected contracts from Vodafone O2 Phones4U or Carphone Warehouse.

The service can be activated via the Downloads option on selected Eseries devices initially the E61 and E65. Users must have a data package in their mobile tariff as ROK TV requires 10Mb of GPRS data per hour of streaming.

Two packages will be offered a five channel Strictly Business package for £5 a month with a strong emphasis on business news channels such as Bloomberg CNBC Europe Euro News and regional news channels presented in nine languages.

There will also be the 10-channel ROK All for £10 a month containing all the live business news channels as well as sports news music videos and comedy channels.

Customers can trial both packages free for the first two weeks.

Nokia business development manager for enterprise solution David King said: Nokia Eseries users tend to be professional people who seek instant information and entertainment so it is a logical step to offer our customers a business-orientated mobile TV service.

ROK chairman Jonathan Kendrick added: Were absolutely delighted to be working with Nokia on this exciting deployment of mobile TV.

We know there is a huge and as yet untapped market for live and instantly-available business and financial news amongst mobile TV customers.

The decision means that Vodafone must now consult with Connect over the pay hours and holidays of its workforce located in the Midlands North of England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is the first time that the network has recognised a union in the UK.

Todays announcement comes after months of fruitless negotiations between Connect and Vodafone that led to the union issuing legal proceeding. The union has also submitted an application to the court for recognition that would cover Vodafone employees in the South of England.

Connect general secretary Adrian Askew said: This is a landmark victory for our members in Vodafone and it is a tribute to how they have come together to demand a say in their working lives.

Vodafone workers are calling loud and clear for a voice at work that is independent and professional. Our membership growth in the company has shown that even in the biggest of blue-chip companies employees understand that trade unions are still the only way to secure a truly independent voice.

The G600 is a slim-line slider handset containing a 5.0 mega-pixel camera 2.2 inch LCD screen with 16 million colours and full Bluetooth v.2 connectivity.

Samsung director Mark Mitchinson said: We know customers will love having advanced functionality and digital camera features in one compelling device. Additional benefits such as creative shot modes microSD external memory and the Image Editor will make the Samsung G600 a digital must have.

The G600 will hit stores nationwide in August.

HST already bills for fixed-line voice and mobile broadband. Its wholesale airtime deal will enable it to bill for mobile voice minutes. It will offer mobile voice and date billing to resellers as a white label service.

Hugh Symons Telecom managing director Hugh Roper said: We are in discussion with the networks now and will launch a wholesale airtime deal in the next quarter.

We want to provide for resellers that want to sell a converged solution not from a standard mobile price book but as a combination of hardware and services and billed minutes both fixed and mobile said Roper.

He added: We are doing this from a billing point of view because our product portfolio targets the fixed-mobile convergence space.

Mobile is a key part of the convergence proposition. With a wholesale airtime deal we can bill for the whole converged package fixed line mobile and internet.

All met stringent targets on new connections data sales 24-month contracts secondary devices and retention rates. They join already qualified Avenir in gaining access to an online marketing toolkit marketing funding O2 solution selling training and demonstration devices.

MoCo managing director Ian Robinson said: A few people probably wrote us off at the beginning and we are extremely pleased. It is a marker in the sand.

Fone Logistics marketing director Julien Parven said: It is recognition of the hard work and commitment we have shown O2.

Azzurri meanwhile is the first to join both its Advance and Data Centre of Excellence programmes after qualifying for the latter last week.

O₂ head of indirect partners and business mobilisation David Plumb said: Azzurri is a big player in convergence and a really important partner for us. O₂ is now training Azzurri sales people to sell data applications and solutions. This is a huge investment for us.

Its UK-based parent company Xebra which owns the brand licence to MVNO Extreme Mobile holds a 61.25 per cent share of Advantage Cellulars equity.

In April Warsaw-based company Centernet a subsidiary of Polish listed investment fund MFI Midas acquired 80 per of the shares of Xebra. Advantage Cellular is already connecting business customers direct.

The announcement comes three months after Telefonica sold the group to two Macquarie-managed investment funds.

Airwave CEO Richard Bobbett has revealed that the re-branding is an essential part of the companys expansion plans. Bobbett said:

We are now entering a new phase in Airwaves development as we refine and expand the existing service both in Great Britain and abroad.

In todays environment where the emergency services and public safety organisations are responding rapidly to ever-changing circumstances our ability to provide a trusted communications solution is more important than ever.