The latest ABC-audited circulation figure for the period July 1 to December 31 last year now puts the newspaper´s circulation ahead of its main rival and proves it is the most widely-read UK mobile trade publication.

We re pleased he said. The content providers are pleased. We are looking at having 200 sites on i-mode by the end of the year.
O2 is looking for more handsets to add to the current clutch of i-mode-compatible phones the NEC 343i NEC 411i Samsung S500i and Samsung Z320i. The first addition the Samsung S400 is available now.
Griffiths said that the network planned to increase activity within the shopping section as users become more comfortable making transactions using their handsets.

T-Mobile now requires dealers to have their own dealer codes to connect. It wants increased control of its dealer base since the launch of its popular Flext tariffs say distributors.
"The trial was intended to encourage new stockists" said a T-Mobile spokesperson. "We are now reverting to the old system which is slightly more refined and simple. It will only really affect dealers that have become stockists in the past year."
One Avenir dealer said: "T-Mobile wants to regulate its dealers individually. It doesnt want dealers connecting through Avenirs dealer code. It wants them to connect via their own code. That way if dealers are selling its product unscrupulously it can keep an eye on it."
Fone Logistics marketing manager Julian Parven added: "T-Mobile relaxed the rules recently to encourage dealers to trade in its tariffs. But T-Mobile has since prevented dealers hiding behind a universal code. Were in favour of this."
Hugh Symons business manager Bob Sweetlove said: "It is a quality control thing. Most networks say that the risk lies with the distributor. Naturally the risk with a distributor code is that some dealers will put through good value connections and some wont. So there will be an average."

A recent trial on London Underground saw WideRay transmit free Channel 4 documentary clips from a jack point on station platforms to commuters mobile phones.
Johnson said that 151000 people were prompted to opt in to the service during the two-week trial period.
Johnson said the company s aim was to build some 15000 locations across Europe.

The move will set it and Microsoft up against RIM s hugely successful BlackBerry range.
Vodafone s Windows Mobile Email synchronises e-mails and tasks from Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Excel and Word attachments can be viewed edited and returned. Windows Mobile Email integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 software. It incorporates the Messaging and Security Feature Pack.
Vodafone will supply the service with v1240 and v1640 handsets by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. Other handsets will be made available for the UK market.
Vodafone chief marketing officer Peter Bamford said: Mobile e-mail is simple security-enhanced and easy to set up. It enables customers to remain productive and organised when out of the office.
The service will also be available to business and SME customers in other countries during 2006.

Hugh Symons dealer managers have been approaching dealers over the past fortnight to market fulfilment connections via mail order web- and distance sales on a co-branded site together with Vanilla Mobile.
Dealers will receive between 25 and 85 commission depending on the volume and quality of the connections. Vanilla Mobile takes care of the fulfilment process including credit checks dispatch and cashback.
We are talking to dealers admitted a Hugh Symons dealer manager.
It is another plank of our expansion programme he said.
Carphone Warehouse director of indirect distribution Steve Fraser said that a wider dealer initiative went live in January.
Hugh Symons business manager Bob Sweetlove said: It s a Carphone Warehouse product. It s not specific to Hugh Symons Communications.
One dealer who declined to be named said: Hugh Symons is just warming people up at the moment to see who is ready to take it on. You put a web site up under your own brand. The Vanilla Mobile brand also appears. You market it and Vanilla Mobile takes care of all the processes.
Faisal Sheikh of Fone Doctors said: We market it and take a cut depending on the customers we connect. It s such a simple idea and I have heard other distributors talk about it in the past.

Hugh Symons Unity dealers have been able to take advantage of higher O2 and Vodafone commissions which are managed by The Carphone Warehouse since January.
But Hugh Symons opened the offer up to its wider dealer base earlier this month.
We launched this to our Unity dealers initially but we have now opened it up to the entire dealer community said Hugh Symons business manager Bob Sweetlove.
O2 and Vodafone have typically been business networks for independent dealers.
As far as consumer packages are concerned most dealers have always connected Orange T-Mobile and 3 he added. With this however dealers have more reach for their consumer propositions.

Neither Ace Contact nor Fonehouse T-Mobile s other front three dealerships are connecting to other networks online. But T-Mobile s relationship with all its front three solus retailers is under review.
A T-Mobile spokesperson said: Chitter Chatter is stocking other networks. The front three are still very much a part of our distribution strategy but the relationship with them has changed slightly. The terms of the agreement with all of them are being reviewed.
Carphone Warehouse director of indirect distribution Steve Fraser said: The front three are not completely tied into T-Mobile. Vanilla Mobile is doing retail fulfilment for Chitter Chatter.
T-Mobile is expected to make
an announcement about its front three dealerships within the
next month.

Microline MD Jas Singh denied Microline lost its Orange dealer code after a review commissioned by Orange s head of dealer and distribution Chris Hough.
Singh claimed he was still connecting Orange customers.
On Monday I received confirmation from Orange that I would no longer be able to get any more stock from them while it carries out a review into the type of connections it is getting but this is something it is doing with a number of dealers not just us he said.
According to Singh Microline is one of the longest-established direct Orange dealers. The relationship dates from the early 1990s when Orange first launched its indirect sales channel.
Over the past decade we ve contributed significantly towards the network s market acquisition especially within the M25 he said.
Singh added that he still has a large amount of Orange stock and is using his authorised Orange dealer code to put those connections on.
I am still connecting Orange customers in the normal way and will continue to do so until I am told otherwise he said.
One Orange direct dealer who asked not to be named said: Any dealers who focus heavily on cashback are being reviewed Orange has made it clear that it does not like cashback at all.
However Singh defended his use of in-store cashback offers as an attempt to remain competitive.
An Orange spokeswoman refused to confirm or deny Microline s status. She said: We have terminated one direct dealer and one non-direct dealer. They are no longer allowed to connect Orange at all either directly with us or via our authorised distributors. But we are not in the name and shame game and will not be naming them or any others that we terminate now or in the future.

The phones have already started to ship to its dealer channel.
There s been a lot of talk about box-breaking said 3 sales director Marc Allera. It affects all operators. We take it very seriously and this initiative is a leading step to act as a preventative tool.
Allera said 3 had been shipping the treated handsets to its own stores since December and they were rolling out to the distribution channel as Mobile News went to press.
Feedback from the dealers has been positive he claimed.
The handsets affected by the policy are all the new models supplied by ZTE as well as refurbished Motorola C975s.
Allera said he expected significant numbers of the handsets to be sold through the channel. The SIMs are fixed with a bond of epoxy adhesive and the process is carried out in the 3 warehouse.
We ve known what we needed to do for a while so we ve got the staff in place to get the phones out without any hiccup in the chain said Allera.
Allera professed himself unconcerned that consumers would feel they have had an element of choice removed by having the SIMs fixed into the phones.
That s a separate scenario and there are processes in place to deal with that. We are not expecting these scenarios to be of significant volumes. That the SIM is fixed is made clear on the box he said.