GlobalIT consultancy Accenture has invested £130 million in a minority stake of a joint venture with Vodafone to implement AI-driven technology in Vodafone’s Intelligent Services (VOIS).

Iridium and Qualcomm’s dream of covering the world’s surface with an emergency texting service accessible through Snapdragon satellite-chip Android smartphones is over.

Three’s proposed merger with Vodafone is now ‘vital’ to enable the required investment scale, said Three CEO Robert Finnegan. The network today revealed its Q3 results which showed total revenue of £1.8bn, an increase of two per cent over the same period last year. Three now has 10.7 million active customers, an increase of four per

Vodafone has teamed up with the Jason Robinson Foundation and prominent charity Sported to support community sports clubs.

Virgin Media O2’s mobile contract base put on 50,000 new users in the third quarter of the year to a total of 16.1 million with monthly consumer contract churn remaining low at one per cent. 

Virgin Media O2 is selling a 16.7 per cent stake in mobile tower joint venture Cornerstone to infrastructure fund GLIL Infrastructure for about £360 million.

The Mobile Phone Museum has partnered with the PK Porthcurno, Museum of Global Communications in a new exhibition on the 40-year history of the mobile phone.

Nokia is to slash up to 14,000 jobs by 2026 to reduce cost base by up to €1.2bn million and increase operational efficiency

The Unite trade union has attacked the proposed Vodafone and Three merger saying it is a threat to national security and will cost consumers £300 a year.

EE is being relaunched as ‘New EE’ with the biggest marketing campaign since the brand’s launch in 2012. As part of a new raft of services and products, EE has partnered with Apple to launch a new TV streaming service called ‘EE TV.’ The new TV service will offer flexible TV packages accessed from an

IT products and services distributor TD Synnex has promoted Simon Bennett, Senior Director of Enterprise Software and Cloud for the UK and Ireland to Managing Director of Advanced Solutions for the same region. Matt Child, (main pic) the current head of Advanced Solutions, becomes Senior Vice President of Digital for Europe, taking over from Andy

Virgin Media O2 and Ericsson are to provide a 5G standalone private network to venues hosting a national BBC Children in Need charity games tournament

Cellhire is to offer connectivity to more than 220 destinations with 700 network operators, following its latest partnership with the wholesale arm of Orange. Global telecoms provider Cellhire has worked with Orange since 1997 and is an MVNO on the Orange Wholesale France network, It will now introduce a “light MVNO” for voice and data

HMD Global has begun producing Nokia-branded 5G smartphones in Europe. The first device, the 5G XR21, is now available and aimed at business users while the 302 limited edition versions are for consumers. The Nokia XR21 is designed to withstand dust, heat, impact, and water and uses recycled aluminium for the phone’s chassis. It is

TalkTalk Group says it expects some redundancies in corporate functions as it demerges its main operating businesses into three standalone companies. These will be the B2B Wholesale Platform, TalkTalk Consumer, and TalkTalk Business Direct. The new companies will become operationally separate on November 1, and legally separate from March 1, 2024. Each division will be

Andy Morris has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Likewize Europe to replace Gerry O’Keefe who is retiring from the business.

Some Tesco Mobile customers who pre-ordered a new iPhone 15 or 15 Pro from were left disappointed and angry by a system glitch that prevented them from finalising their orders. A Tesco Mobile spokesperson said: “We are aware of an issue fulfilling a small proportion of Apple iPhone 15 and our team is working hard

Virgin Media O2 is trialling a rural project to help farmers protect their and other property from theft as well as monitor livestock movements and whether gates are open or closed.

EE has boosted 4G coverage in the southern Lake District following the upgrade of two masts. 

Around 14.4 million iPhone Lightning cables could end up in landfills following the iPhone’s transition to USB-C, according to circular economy pioneer Music Magpie.

Apple is expected to sell over 150 million units of its new iPhone 15 lineup within the first 12 months of release, according to research firm IDC.

Apple’s new iPhone 15 range will cost more or less the same as the iPhone 14 range a year ago. The ’15’ prices range as high as £1,599 for the top-spec Pro Max with 1TB storage down to £799 for the base 15 with 128BGB. Apple is offering £600 trade-in for a 128GB iPhone Pro

SIM and calling card distributor GK Telecom is launching an eSIM data-only service on Monday (9/11) that will allow its subscribers in 210 countries to earn unlimited commissions simply by sending their friends and followers a unique invitation QR code.

Virgin Media O2 will start a phased 3G shutdown in 2025 in line with Government and industry edicts that all networks have to shut down 3G by 2033.