Jelfs exit comes in the wake of former chairman John Mcfarnon and sales manager Matt Bramwells departures.

The outgoing Jelfs has no concrete plans for his future and will focus his attention on consultancy work in the meantime.

Jelfs told Mobile News: I felt now was the time to move on after a long era as there are currently a lot of changes in terms of geography and in its cohesive strategy at Unique.

At the moment Im working on a couple of assignments as a consultant and both are keen to offer me full time positions. But at this point I am keeping my options open.

Flick said: We are a good business. We are on O2s Advance Partner programme and a part of both its data and M2M Centres of Excellence. We are one of just 10 tier-one Vodafone partners and our relationship with Orange is very interesting too.

The business we write is quality business delivered in quantity. In an unprecedented unjustified and unexpected move T-Mobile contacted me and our customers to tell them our trading relationship had ceased. It has been totally unprofessional. It should have given us notice to limit the impact upon our customers.

Ultimately T-Mobile is quitting the independent channel. Over the past two years it has been reactive. It has launched extremely aggressive price plans time and again only to withdraw them fairly quickly afterwards. It is very fickle.

The WiMAX Forum is a non-profit industry-led group that has more than 470 companies as members. This includes 141 operators that are committed to promoting and certifying interoperable WiMAX products.

Vodafone global chief technology officer Steve Pusey said: Our membership of the WiMAX Forum will complement our existing memberships of other key industry bodies such as the GSMA 3GPP and the Next Generation Mobile Network initiative.

Vodafone remains technology neutral as far as our future network options are concerned and joining the WiMAX Forum is a logical step as we seek to evaluate the full capabilities and potential of this technology.

The company has slashed its total number of direct business partners from around 40 to closer 15 in little over a year.

Azzurri divisional director Martin Flick said T-Mobile had sent him and Azzurris entire T-Mobile customer base a letter informing them that Azzurris contract had been terminated.

Flick said: T-Mobile has been totally unprofessional. It should have given us some notice to limit the impact upon our customers.

Sources said last week that T-Mobile had recently sacked channel support staff.

It has made people redundant and right up to middle management and senior level staff are unmotivated and fearful for their jobs said one prominent dealer.

Another B2B dealer explained: Its support for the channel is poor and its volumes are disappointing. But rather than put resources back into the channel it is sacking its dealer support staff and now it is cutting dealers.

T-Mobile also came under fire last week for poaching customers from dealers. T-Mobile informed dealers to expect more of the same.

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The channel will be called Frank TV and will show never-before-seen footage from Lampards video diaries which he filmed over the past two seasons giving an inside into his personal life and behind the scenes access at Stamford Bridge.

Orange 3G customers will be able to access Frank TV alongside other Orange mobile TV channels including BBC Channel 4 Sky and FHM via their handsets.

Orange UK head of mobile TV Jake Redford said: We are delighted to launch a dedicated channel to arguably one of the most committed and professional midfielders in world football.

Frank TV makes for great bite-size viewing and provides our mobile TV viewers unique insight to the life behind the footballer.

Orange TV contains over 30 channels and is available from £5 a month.

The channels are available to Vodafone and Orange and Sky Mobile customers and will feature exclusive made for mobile content.

Discovery Turbos programming is available on-demand and will be shown in 20 minute batches that are updated each weekday. Animal Planet is also available on-demand and is on a one-hour weekly loop and will feature the stations most popular programming.

Discovery Networks UK vice president commercial Keith Underwood said: These new launches are part of a broader strategy to further integrate digital media services building a stronger and more complementary relationship with our linear channels.

Going forward we will continue to develop assemble and deploy content of the highest quality on all viable distribution platforms to ensure we are where our consumers want us.

The move is part of Nokias new marketing plan aimed at increasing the effectiveness of its marketing activities.

JWTs will main role will be to support creative agencies in implementation of Nokias global campaigns. The group will also act as a strategic global partner to support Nokias local marketing in over 80 markets worldwide.

Nokia senior vice president Pekka Rantala said: Working together with JWT will help us to align our marketing efforts. With one global marketing network partner we believe we will be better positioned to reach our goal of becoming the most loved and admired brand by people in the world

When a user selects Google as their search provider their preference is recorded and the next time they use Planet 3 they will automatically be directed to Google search.

The Google Maps application will be pre-installed on new handsets and available to download on compatible handsets.

3 UK marketing director John Penberthy-Smith said: Our objective is to make sure our customers have an experience which gets closer to the one you would expect when using your home PC but on your mobile device.

The contracts will see Motorola supplying GSM equipment to help China Mobile expand its network. The Beijing-based company is the worlds largest wireless carrier with 332.4 million customers and provides network coverage across 16 Chinese provinces.

In July Motorola reported a second straight quarterly loss and 60 per cent of the revenue from these contracts were recognized in those figures.

President of Motorola China Ruey-Bin Kao said: Todays announcement clearly illustrates Motorolas continued success in the GSM market and its position as one of the leading equipment and services suppliers in China.

Our goal is to continue to provide China Mobile with a state-of-the-art GSM network that enlarges its network coverage maximizes investment and delivers the best services to its customers.

Dealers are reporting severe delays in O2s credit checking procedure.

O2s service level agreement (SLA) states it takes seven hours to credit check business customers. Dealers claimed last week that because of the high volume of business connections going through O2 the process was taking several days.

Either staff have left in droves or else it is just really really busy at the moment said a source. For its SLA to fall down it must be swamped.

Another dealer said: There is a huge influx of customers to O2 and it hasnt got the mechanism to cope. Its a nice problem for it to have but its very frustrating. O2 has been a victim of its own success.

An O2 spokesperson said: There have been no major issues. There may have been a few isolated incidents but there have been no widespread problems.

Separately O2 launched a SME Starter Pack tariff for business customers last week.

The new tariff offers two free months subscription to any of O2s bundled business voice tariffs and to its concierge service. It also gives SME customers a UK-based customer service team available 24 hours a day on a freephone number.

O2 account managers will also call customers every three months to resolve any issues.

O2 UK business propositions manager David Baxter said: This is designed to give entrepreneurs the support they need.

It includes a great tariff guaranteed service promise and concierge services leaving Britains start-ups free to get on with getting their businesses off the ground.

O2 is already the preferred network for SMEs. We understand what they need and were committed to helping them.