From knocking on doors to dirty tricks campaigns, you’re kept on your toes in the MVNO migrant market. James Blackman talks to IDT Mobile marketing manager Dennis Cowles about selling international SIM cards in the UK

As Barcelona gets back to normal after being descended upon by a who’s who, and what’s what, of mobile, MaryLou Costa picks through the pieces of the biggest industry event in the calendar.

It was a massive leap for Mark Finlayson, managing director of B2B dealership Next Communications. He went from Convoy to communications; from CB to B2B; and against all the odds, the former lorry driver has made a good fist of it since he started the firm back in February 1988.

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