Staff Reporter

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

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

Distributor Comm Sense will look to expand significantly in 2008 with managing director Barry Moore confident the business has now stabilised following the demise of European Telecom (ET).

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Bristol-based mobile retailer Smart Talk will launch a web business next year, which it reckons can treble its revenue.