The flagship sponsorship will reach an audience of two million every week and is initially for a 13 week period in the run up to the Christmas period with an option to renew.

The Carphone Warehouse will get top of the hour sponsor credits out of the news trails out of advertising breaks during the show and up to four promotional trails each day.

Jonathan Hook marketing director at The Carphone Warehouse said:

Were a great believer in the power of radio and thrilled to have signed a deal with the biggest breakfast show. Were always keen to join up with lively and creative partners and the Chris Evans Breakfast Show fitted the bill perfectly.

Also The Carphone Warehouse has launched three new independent information guides. They are You and Your Mobile Phone A Guide to the Mobile Internet and Mobile Phones & Health. All the guides are free and available in store and from the companys web site.

The Mint Telecom SIM card allows the user to bypass the home network and make roaming calls throughout the world at a cheaper rate of 85p a minute for outgoing calls and 42p for received calls in any one of 112 countries.

Users continue with their home network with the other SIM. In the UK the bundle will be distributed by European Telecom.

BTCellnet has also reduced the cost of the monthly subscription to Business First to 12.99 a month from 14.00.

The package also gives businesses further discounts in the costs of all their calls depending on the size of the bill and the length of commitment to BTCellnet Business First. The tariff does not include any bundled minutes. BTCellnet Business First is aimed at businesses up to 500 employees. Businesses with just one handset can now also use the BTCellnet Business First tariff.

Business First offers a range of billing and payment options including individual billing to all users with a summary bill to a central account if desired.

The service provides a dedicated account service centre.

Another possible candidate for the job is Orange group sales director Gareth Jones.

Brennan an Australian joined Orange in 1993 as group IT and operations director having spent the early part of his career with Hutchison Whampoa in Hong Kong overseeing the development and operation of the groups IT systems throughout south east Asia.

His responsibility at Orange included the development of a proprietary IT infrastructure and the evolution of IT systems which has helped establish Oranges reputation as a leading communications company.

Brennan was appointed UK group commercial director of Orange in March last year.

The award was given from feedback from a July survey by the CMA of UK communications technology industries.

The award was based on users ratings of their suppliers across 31 subject areas from service and technical innovation to clarity of billing complaints handling and geographical coverage.

The first network facility to be made available to students will be based on GPRS. Vodafone will incorporate the latest GPRS standards into its live GSM network and will begin full customer trials this month. The GPRS network will be followed by a third generation test network in the spring.

Once the infrastructure is in place Vodafone will work with the University and manufacturers to ensure that sufficient phones are available to carry out the trials which will initially be within the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Vodafone is making a pioneering investment in advanced mobile network technologies in Cambridge said Vodafones UK Strategy director Tim Harrabin.

It offers a huge opportunity to develop innovative services and applications for the millions of mobile phone users in the UK.

We are delighted to supplement our own development activities by providing facilities to support the University and other organisations committed to turning ideas for future mobile applications into reality.

GPRS delivers internet applications to mobile devices at speeds up to five times faster than GSM.

Sainsburys says from next year it will launch a service called Sainsburys One which will offer customers the best call rate against every standard tariff and charge the lowest cost. Prepay customers will get a credit every three months for calls that would have been cheaper on another network.

The service is similar to their BTCellnet First scheme that has been available for the last two years.

It is not anything like the Virgin One 2 One tie up said BTCellnet sales director Mark Stansfield.

Sainsburys are not going to become a Virtual Network Operator (VNO). Though I cant talk about the specifics of the deal no one must think Sainsburys are going to become a VNO.

It is a normal kind of tie up. It is a loyalty scheme targeted at Sainsbury Reward Card holders. We thought long and hard about the proposals before we went ahead.

Stansfield denied the Sainsburys venture represented a branding of BTCellnet.

The scheme is based on airtime that the supermarket buys from us in a normal way and to which they are trying to add value. It is part of a wider scheme. From Sainsburys point of view this is not just about mobile telephony; they will be looking at other services too.

I was very clear that I didnt want anything we did as a company to undermine our commitment to the dealer channel. This is about having the right propositions in the right channels. Dont forget that BTCellnet has the First programme which guarantees that the customer is always on the best tariff something that no other network offers.

We are extending into a reward area which is normally a segmented part of the market. We will still trade with the grocery channels but we are supporting the independent channels with chequeback commercials pre-pay packages and other initiatives which they need to get to their target groups.

None of the product that will be sold in Sainsburys will be own brand. It will all be BT branded. Vodafone have joined up with Centrica but we have made it quite clear that we are not in the wholesale game at the moment.

There are more serious questions to be addressed. I am saying that the BTCellnet product will not be in any way compromised. A similar question ought to be asked about any plans Vodafone and Tesco might have.

The BTCellnet proposition will not be devalued or price cut. We are not looking at a BTCellnet proposition being cheaper in Sainsburys.

Stansfield said dealers will always be able to compete.

We are 100 per cent committed to supporting the BTCellnet dealer community. Work is in progress on the BTCellnet Sainsbury deal at this moment but from what I have seen this deal is complementary to the rest of our activities.

As far as the independent sector is concerned we know they will have the right post-pay propositions the right support. One size does not fit all.

We dont want the independent channel to enter the commodity market; we need to support them in the right areas to add value to their businesses.

Sainsburys is just another distributor agreement. Clearly when you do something like this it means you work more closely together but we are also very committed to the other grocery channels and we dont want to loose those relationships.

In the same way wed be very disappointed if Tesco having made their choice of preferred partner didnt still want to continue to trade with us.

CPS will develop location technology based on the Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) standard.

Nortel Networks will integrate and market CPS products into its e-mobility location center. Nortel Networks believes that OTDOA will become a powerful location method that will have minimal cost impact on both handsets and infrastructure.

The mobile location market is estimated at more than US$30 billion by 2005. Nortel Networks is a global Internet and communications company with technologies spanning optical wireless local internet and eBusiness.