Farnborough-based Mobix reckons its smartphone teleconferencing application is a crucial service for business people, enabling a simple smartphone call to be like a 120-seater conference hall

Independent dealers facing cashback problems pointed the finger at 3 last month. They claimed 3 account managers had encouraged the uptake of a 40 per cent redemption model, either in writing or verbally.

Ask most people in the industry what last year was like and you’ll get a response along the lines of: “It’s been an extremely tough year %u2013 a real roller-coaster, and surely 2008 can%u2019t get any worse.”

Visionary, straight talker, speed freak; the epithets applied to Yes Telecom founder Keith Curran, who quit earlier this month, are numerous and varied, but all complimentary.

Competition in the mobile broadband space is hotting up.

Avenir Telecom overhauled its business last year to adhere to the network message on business sales. Its turnover is down, its volumes are down, but it profits are up as a result. Managing director Tanny Price tells James Blackman about the upside of business

Following the end of a turbulent financial year, mobile industry veteran John Barton discusses how LG Mobile, and the rest of the industry, will make a success of 2009, from handset innovation to distribution and beyond

Attempting to ‘redefine the internet’ is a bold objective, even by Nokia’s standards, but just how realistic is it? Michael Garwood was at Nokia World 2008 in Barcelona to see if this really is the dawning of a new internet age

Big, expensive and slick: Brightstar Europe’s distribution centre in Magna Park is central to its claim it can undercut the market on price. James Blackman speaks to its European president Rod Millar about a new-era in mobile phone distribution

Motorola’s sales volumes, market share and profits have eroded dramatically this year. But UK and Ireland general manager Jim Michel claims its customers are rooting for the US underdog. James Blackman listens to the plan for Moto’s rising.