The Fly SL600 will be available on Vodafone pre-pay and will sell for £59.99.

The handset features a two-megapixel camera music player with expandable memory FM radio and Bluetooth.

Fly is currently in discussion with other retailers for further contracts and is set to bring a portfolio of about eight handsets to the UK by the end of the year.

Vodafone had until Thursday to exercise an option to sell up to $10 billion of its shares in Verizon Wireless to Verizon Communications. The announcement is a blow to Verizon Communications who already own 55 per cent of Verizon Wireless.

A statement issued by Vodafone said: Vodafone announces that it has decided not to exercise its rights under its agreement with Verizon Communications Inc. to sell to Verizon up to 10 billion dollars of Vodafones interest in Verizon Wireless.

VZW is a market leading business with strong growth prospects and the Board of Vodafone continues to believe that retaining its full 45-percent interest is in the best interests of shareholders.

Nokia will now work with four chipset suppliers including Broadcom Infineon Technologies STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments will continue to be a broad scope supplier across all protocols.

However Nokia will continue to develop its own modem technology which includes protocol software and related digital design for WCDMA/GSM. Nokia will then license the modem technology to its selected chipset manufactures.

Nokia executive vice president of technology platforms Niklas Savander said: This is a pragmatic move in the face of an increasingly complex technology environment. Companies in this industry need to focus on areas where they can add value and partner with others where it makes sense.

We believe that our renewed strategy will allow us to concentrate on developing core chipset technologies while increasing our R&D efficiencies and improving our agility in a fast-moving marketplace.

Theres also a reviews of the new Sagem my850v and the petbuddi GSM-based dog location service. While Ian White goes on another one of his rants about Ewan McGregor and phony PR for the Nokia 6110 Navigator.

To cap it all off Iain Graham and the team take a light hearted look at all the latest headlines affecting the mobile industry. So dont miss out listen to the latest edition of the Mobile News podcast by clicking here.

Jelfs exit comes in the wake of former chairman John Mcfarnon and sales manager Matt Bramwells departures.

The outgoing Jelfs has no concrete plans for his future and will focus his attention on consultancy work in the meantime.

Jelfs told Mobile News: I felt now was the time to move on after a long era as there are currently a lot of changes in terms of geography and in its cohesive strategy at Unique.

At the moment Im working on a couple of assignments as a consultant and both are keen to offer me full time positions. But at this point I am keeping my options open.

Flick said: We are a good business. We are on O2s Advance Partner programme and a part of both its data and M2M Centres of Excellence. We are one of just 10 tier-one Vodafone partners and our relationship with Orange is very interesting too.

The business we write is quality business delivered in quantity. In an unprecedented unjustified and unexpected move T-Mobile contacted me and our customers to tell them our trading relationship had ceased. It has been totally unprofessional. It should have given us notice to limit the impact upon our customers.

Ultimately T-Mobile is quitting the independent channel. Over the past two years it has been reactive. It has launched extremely aggressive price plans time and again only to withdraw them fairly quickly afterwards. It is very fickle.

The WiMAX Forum is a non-profit industry-led group that has more than 470 companies as members. This includes 141 operators that are committed to promoting and certifying interoperable WiMAX products.

Vodafone global chief technology officer Steve Pusey said: Our membership of the WiMAX Forum will complement our existing memberships of other key industry bodies such as the GSMA 3GPP and the Next Generation Mobile Network initiative.

Vodafone remains technology neutral as far as our future network options are concerned and joining the WiMAX Forum is a logical step as we seek to evaluate the full capabilities and potential of this technology.

The company has slashed its total number of direct business partners from around 40 to closer 15 in little over a year.

Azzurri divisional director Martin Flick said T-Mobile had sent him and Azzurris entire T-Mobile customer base a letter informing them that Azzurris contract had been terminated.

Flick said: T-Mobile has been totally unprofessional. It should have given us some notice to limit the impact upon our customers.

Sources said last week that T-Mobile had recently sacked channel support staff.

It has made people redundant and right up to middle management and senior level staff are unmotivated and fearful for their jobs said one prominent dealer.

Another B2B dealer explained: Its support for the channel is poor and its volumes are disappointing. But rather than put resources back into the channel it is sacking its dealer support staff and now it is cutting dealers.

T-Mobile also came under fire last week for poaching customers from dealers. T-Mobile informed dealers to expect more of the same.

Full story in Mobile News

To subscribe to Mobile News click here

The channel will be called Frank TV and will show never-before-seen footage from Lampards video diaries which he filmed over the past two seasons giving an inside into his personal life and behind the scenes access at Stamford Bridge.

Orange 3G customers will be able to access Frank TV alongside other Orange mobile TV channels including BBC Channel 4 Sky and FHM via their handsets.

Orange UK head of mobile TV Jake Redford said: We are delighted to launch a dedicated channel to arguably one of the most committed and professional midfielders in world football.

Frank TV makes for great bite-size viewing and provides our mobile TV viewers unique insight to the life behind the footballer.

Orange TV contains over 30 channels and is available from £5 a month.

The channels are available to Vodafone and Orange and Sky Mobile customers and will feature exclusive made for mobile content.

Discovery Turbos programming is available on-demand and will be shown in 20 minute batches that are updated each weekday. Animal Planet is also available on-demand and is on a one-hour weekly loop and will feature the stations most popular programming.

Discovery Networks UK vice president commercial Keith Underwood said: These new launches are part of a broader strategy to further integrate digital media services building a stronger and more complementary relationship with our linear channels.

Going forward we will continue to develop assemble and deploy content of the highest quality on all viable distribution platforms to ensure we are where our consumers want us.