Metallic slider to be last of the Ultra Edition

Orange is expected to beef up all its 12 and 18-month consumer and business tariffs in February, including a flat-rate European call charge ahead of regulatory intervention.

3 staff said 3’s deal with Carphone Warehouse, whereby Carphone can offer a free Dell laptop and a free USB modem on 35 pounds broadband tariffs, makes their new sales targets even tougher.

3 has hiked individual sales targets for USB broadband modems by almost 400 per cent in some cases, making it tougher for staff to achieve bonus commission payments.

In this week’s Mobile News podcast Fone Doctors proprietor Faisal Sheikh talks about faults with high-end handsets.

The case against Livewire was thrown out on a number of arguments.

O2’s indirect B2B channel is outperforming its own sales unit for cost of acquisition, customer churn, tenure and ARPU. “The dealer channel is writing better business, more cheaply,” said a source close to O2.

T-Mobile has launched the MDA Touch Plus in the UK, its version of HTC’s Touch Dual.

Apple outsold Motorola in smart phone sales worldwide in the last quarter of 2007.

Hugh Symons Communications has created a new business support team to offer specialist services to B2B dealers.