Staff Reporter

Alcatel has teamed up with Italian fashion brand Mandarina Duck to reveal its latest handset range.

Dealers last week called for a common network database of bad connectors to rid the channel of them for good.

Phones 4U has appointed Brendan Sweeney to a newly-created managing director role to free up Phones 4U chief executive Tim Whiting to focus on more “strategic issues”.

Brightstar has struck a deal to supply Tesco with around 3,000 Motorola RAZR V3s ahead of the Christmas rush.

Data Select has appointed six new account managers to bolster its growing retail division.

T-Mobile and 3 have confirmed they could be sharing parts of their networks by the end of the year.

Handset buy-back scheme Mobile Phone Xchange (MPX) has signed a deal with Phones 4U to provide a secondhand phone trade-in service.

Nokia went further in its bid to recast itself as a content provider last week with the acquisition of US-based mobile advertising specialist Enpocket.

20:20 Logistics has secured an order preventing former sales chief Richard Baxendale working for rival distributor Brightstar Europe.

O2 has announced that it will launch its own broadband service in the UK on October 15.