As well as being Online Editor for this spiffing website Mark Sennett also has the pleasure of being reporter for our sister publication Fone and not a day goes by without dealers tipping him off about another handset fault

Recent news from 20:20 Mobile, old stalwart of the UK distribution channel, has made grim reading.

The great Motorola split is looming. After less than three months in the job, Motorola chief executive Greg Brown has said he will divide the company into separately quoted businesses next year.

It would seem T-Mobile is at it again.

Jon Corke’s first experience with mobile phones came way back in 1992 when, as a student, he had a part-time job in my local Currys electrical store

Read it and weep, Allera

“The UK remains the blank spot on the map. It is extremely attractive to us still. We want to enter the UK market, but the timing has to be right.”

New 20:20 chief executive Meinie Oldersma assumed the reins early last month amid pressure from owners Doughty Hanson to stabilise the company’s finances within a three-month deadline.

Thief messes with wrong mobile.

Iain Graham has interviewed many people on the weekly Mobile News Podcast, and customer service of one sort or another often rears its much-maligned head