Global Telecom is the company set up by ex-European Telecom sales director John Drinkwater and financial director Jim Mann who bought the rights to use the European Telecom name.

Global Digital Telecoms and Global Telecom Distribution are both backed by parent company Mobi-shop Asia.

GDTs seven staff have now moved to European Telecom offices in Waltham Abbey.

GDT managing director Ian Chitty becomes director of sales and purchasing at European Telecom.

European Telecom managing director John Drinkwater said:

It made much more sense to pull the two companies together and run them as one. In the current saturated market it makes sense.

We get a larger customer base the chance to cross-sell to new markets and enjoy economies of scale regarding overheads.

The Manchester-based company which was once Oranges largest direct dealer went into administration in February with debts of 3.2 million.

A deal was offered to creditors in April that allowed the company to come out of administration and continue trading while still acting under the protection of the administrators.

That protection is now lifted after a successful application to discharge the administration was lodged.

Insolvency firm Begbies Traynor helped to slash Celltalks monthly overheads by half cut office space by 75 per cent and reduce staff from 120 to 40.

Celltalk also put together a plan that would see the company continue to trade as long as it paid 10000 a month every month for two years to meet its debts as well as half of any profit made above its 10000 monthly payment.

As part of the deal the directors who were owed 700000 and the holding company which was owed 1.2 million agreed to defer claims until after the two-year period.

On lifting the administrative order it emerged the amount of surplus money available for unsecured creditors had fallen by 20000 from 100000 to 80000 as a result of extraordinary costs such as unpaid rent customer refunds and higher purchase payments on a random dialling machine.

With the company being allowed two free months a year where it does not have to pay off its debt the likely total amount available for unsecured creditors over the two years is around 280000.

At the height of its powers in 2000 Celltalk had a turnover of 24 million and employed over 200 people.

Begbies Traynor administrator Paul Stanley said:

It has been a massive success. The contention was always that there was a viable business in there and that it just grew too quickly and became overstaffed in an industry that then found itself saturated very quickly. The company just needed trimming down.

The system developed by Transaction Network Services (TNS) is similar to the dial-up/authorisation system used in most High Street stores. It uses GSM mobile technology to authorise payments by credit card and pays the fare into a nominated bank account.

Following a successfully pilot scheme carried out earlier this year up to 5000 taxis could be fitted with the service over the next year.

Cabbies that use the service pay no charge or line rental with the passenger paying an 11.5 per cent fee to cover the cost. The transaction typically takes 15 seconds to authorise.

This is an exciting and innovative application of wireless technology and paves the way for a host of mobile payments to be enabled said TNS vice-president for sales Alan Stephenson-Brown.

CRC will handle repairs diagnostics warranty management and technical helpdesks for Nokia.

CRC already has similar management contracts with Sony Vodafone Siemens and Panasonic.

Richardsons career began as a graduate entrant at BT in 1975. He joined the wireless side of the business in 1997 as director of BT Mobile. When O2 was formed Richardson held two roles as director of business markets for O2 and president of Airwave

Richard Kwakye (19) is charged with robbing a man of his car and a Nokia phone in Kilburn northwest London on August 16.

He is also charged with having a firearm while committing the alleged robbery and later in the day robbing another victim at her home in Kilburn.

All O2 arcade games will be free to UK customers until September 30.

Games on offer will include Asteroids Pong Breakout Marslander Men in Black Racing Fever Forbidden Jungle Towers and Popstar.

Around three games a month will be added to the portfolio. The Java-enabled Nokia 3410 is already available and the Siemens M50 will ship from October 1.

Said O2 head of games Tim Raby:

Customers are looking for better playability enhanced colour graphics and a console-like feel to games on their mobile.

We have selected games that are suited to mobile and that take minutes to download.

O2 is currently working with games suppliers such as Motorola Digital Bridges Macrospace Picofun and Ifone.

However AnP marketing director Bill Mann has revealed that network operators did not show much interest in Daewoos proposed DW600 handset and a second Daewoo handset because the phones did not offer enough user features and were out of date.

We have had to change the product range explained Mann.

We have now decided to launch a mobile phone with a built-in camera and a colour screen.

We had a lot of bad feedback from network operators regarding the 600 series because they thought it was outdated and too similar to Samsungs handset.

We originally advised Daewoo that we didnt think the DW600 was right for the UK market but Daewoo persisted with it.

Mann says that Daewoo has now listened to feedback from UK network operators and has decided to launch two new mobile phones later this year.

The first phone is due within the next couple of months according to Mann.

The phones exact specifications are being kept under wraps however Mann revealed the first Daewoo handset would have polyphonic ringtones Bluetooth and a colour screen.

The camera phone is expected to follow shortly after.

Mann also revealed that AnP has finalised agreements with a UK distributor to distribute handsets once they start shipping into the UK.

We cant reveal who the distributor is said Mann.

Preparing itself for the Christmas shopping season the network unveiled new services including shopping over-the-phone ringtones and logos that can be downloaded to a friends mobile as well as Chillout moments in which nuggets of new-age thoughts and pictures are downloaded to customers handsets.

Highlighting the range of retail opportunities for mobiles the operator also unveiled its line of wearable phones.

Designed primarily to appeal to the extreme sports fan the Wearphone is comprised of a rucksack-like bag with built-in microphone and speaker.

The handset slips into a small pouch and connects with the built-in system to allow the user to enjoy hands-free calls.

A limited number of the bags are expected to go on sale in Orange stores costing around 65 although prices have yet to be finalised.

As far as Christmas handsets are concerned the Sony Ericsson T68i and Nokia 7650 are available as part of the MMS drive with the former available on both contract and pre-pay.

The popular Samsung T100 the HP Jornada 928 WDA and the Panasonic GD87e (available in October) complete the high-end contract-only handsets available. Representing the future of mobile gaming is the Sagem myG-5 available from October.

With a keypad designed to make gaming easier the Orange-exclusive handset features downloadable colour games available through the networks gaming service as well as polyphonic ringtones.

The Motorola T720e and C300e are also available from October as is the Nokia 6610 with GPRS MMS and colour screen.

The new Nokia 7210 with colour screen Java-based downloadable games and polyphonic ringtones becomes available in November.

Completing the line-up are the Ericsson P800 with built-in camera and downloadable games the Ericsson T200 with tri-band and GPRS and the Sony Ericsson T300 with MMS.

For text message lovers the network unveiled the new Out There plan which offers 1000 text messages over the course of a year for 19.99 a minute reserve call time and 5 talktime credit for new customers.

Jad Paoli (35) claimed on his Carphone Warehouse insurance policy for his wifes phone saying it had been stolen. But they carried on using the phone and were traced by network records.

They were remanded on bail until September 4 for pre-sentence reports.