Hugh Symons Communications (HSC) has released Orange’s home broadband propositions, Home Starter and Home Max, to the dealer channel.

O2 has questioned the new mobile number porting (MNP) regulation that industry regulator Ofcom laid down this month. Ofcom has set the deadline for MNP to be cut from five days to two hours by September 1, 2009.

In this week’s festive edition of the Mobile News podcast the team takes a look back at their predictions for 2007 and make new ones for the year ahead.

Telefonica has announced that Julio Linares has been promoted to chief operating officer.

O2 sales director Mark Stansfeld is leaving O2 in January although he will serve as a non-executive director on the O2 board.

T-Mobile and 3 have signed a network share agreement that will create national coverage for 3G and HSPDA services across the UK by 2009.

International MVNO Away-Phone has appointed Phillippe Berard to grow its international MVNO partnerships.

New prepay MVNO Nomi-mobile is targeting the UK’s migrant community.

Nokia said last week the opening of its first flagship store on London’s Regent Street has been delayed until the New Year.

Microsoft is rolling out its in-store training programme on Windows Mobile devices in Q1 next year.