Vodafone has agreed a deal to buy Tele2’s Spanish and Italian assets for $1.9 billion.

Carphone Warehouse has reported a slowdown in level of connections to its broadband services.

New advertising-funded youth MVNO Blyk will invite 250,000 new university students to join the network as Freshers’ Week rolls out across the country.

Telecom companies will now have to keep phone call logs for a year as a result of the Data Retention (EC) Regulations that came into effect on October 1.

Vodafone and O2’s networks would not be compromised if they were to hand some of their 900MHz spectrum back to Ofcom, an industry body spokesman said last week.

Telecoms distributor Rocom is pitching a new range of dualmode Bluetooth headsets from Plantronics and GN.

Samsung claims it is aiming for a “more mature” fashion market with the purple variant of its 3.2 megapixel U600 slider phone.

Wireless peripherals supplier Parrot has struck a retail deal with John Lewis that will see the Parrot PARTY go on sale in its stores.

Mobile content provider Gorillabox has today launched a mobile TV service that enables advertisers to stream video content across any handset in Europe and the US.

Advantage Cellular’s sister company Centernet has been awarded Poland’s fifth mobile network licence.