“How do you avoid user dissatisfaction and regulatory intervention? Can the actors in the ICT chain collaborate?”

News that Nokia is to close its flagship store in London’s Regent Street is symbolic and may have been doomed from the start

Sometimes in this industry, it really is a case that you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t

“Like the beaches in the Outer Hebrides, I have no idea if he has seven As or a Masters in Advanced Mathematics. He is friendly, outgoing and bright; he takes a common sense approach and is still succeeding when many others are failing”

“Business comes in waves. And it’s the inability to manage simple things in the good times that costs business in the slow times”

Dealer Jez Harris trumpets the need for networks to come up with data back up services for customers and claims the HTC HD2 tops the iPhone

Brightpoint’s distribution deal with Nokia, a coup for the US supplier’s British unit when it was signed in October last year, appears close to being terminated

Kondor managing director Rob Haycock: “The deal-clincher, the contract winner and the retention tool. Plus, they deliver the real enjoyment factor”

Orange and T-Mobile are not in the mood to cede ground to regulators that have yet to approve the merger of the their British mobile phone operations

“It is not looking to get involved in plain old copper wire, unless it represents a means to new customer solutions”