The move is part of Nokias new marketing plan aimed at increasing the effectiveness of its marketing activities.

JWTs will main role will be to support creative agencies in implementation of Nokias global campaigns. The group will also act as a strategic global partner to support Nokias local marketing in over 80 markets worldwide.

Nokia senior vice president Pekka Rantala said: Working together with JWT will help us to align our marketing efforts. With one global marketing network partner we believe we will be better positioned to reach our goal of becoming the most loved and admired brand by people in the world

When a user selects Google as their search provider their preference is recorded and the next time they use Planet 3 they will automatically be directed to Google search.

The Google Maps application will be pre-installed on new handsets and available to download on compatible handsets.

3 UK marketing director John Penberthy-Smith said: Our objective is to make sure our customers have an experience which gets closer to the one you would expect when using your home PC but on your mobile device.

The contracts will see Motorola supplying GSM equipment to help China Mobile expand its network. The Beijing-based company is the worlds largest wireless carrier with 332.4 million customers and provides network coverage across 16 Chinese provinces.

In July Motorola reported a second straight quarterly loss and 60 per cent of the revenue from these contracts were recognized in those figures.

President of Motorola China Ruey-Bin Kao said: Todays announcement clearly illustrates Motorolas continued success in the GSM market and its position as one of the leading equipment and services suppliers in China.

Our goal is to continue to provide China Mobile with a state-of-the-art GSM network that enlarges its network coverage maximizes investment and delivers the best services to its customers.

Dealers are reporting severe delays in O2s credit checking procedure.

O2s service level agreement (SLA) states it takes seven hours to credit check business customers. Dealers claimed last week that because of the high volume of business connections going through O2 the process was taking several days.

Either staff have left in droves or else it is just really really busy at the moment said a source. For its SLA to fall down it must be swamped.

Another dealer said: There is a huge influx of customers to O2 and it hasnt got the mechanism to cope. Its a nice problem for it to have but its very frustrating. O2 has been a victim of its own success.

An O2 spokesperson said: There have been no major issues. There may have been a few isolated incidents but there have been no widespread problems.

Separately O2 launched a SME Starter Pack tariff for business customers last week.

The new tariff offers two free months subscription to any of O2s bundled business voice tariffs and to its concierge service. It also gives SME customers a UK-based customer service team available 24 hours a day on a freephone number.

O2 account managers will also call customers every three months to resolve any issues.

O2 UK business propositions manager David Baxter said: This is designed to give entrepreneurs the support they need.

It includes a great tariff guaranteed service promise and concierge services leaving Britains start-ups free to get on with getting their businesses off the ground.

O2 is already the preferred network for SMEs. We understand what they need and were committed to helping them.

The new service comes on the back of the successful addition of Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN) to 3s Internet portfolio last year. 3 customers have sent over 133 million messages via Windows Live Messenger in the last 12 months.

Yahoo Messenger will be available for free on selected handsets to all of 3s pay monthly customers. 3 Pay As You Go customers will also be able to access the service until the end of 2007.

3 marketing director John Penberthy-Smith said: Now 2 million Yahoo! Messenger users can enjoy the exclusive benefit of free instant messaging on 3.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report also concluded however that the new reverse charge mechanism which zero rates VAT in the supply chain could see resourceful fraudsters switch to other goods. It also said: The financial rewards from missing trader fraud have been high while the risk of being caught and penalised has been low.

Missing trader VAT fraud has cost HMRC at least £6 billion during the past six years. It reached a high in 2005/6 of up to £3 billion. The EU commissioner for taxation has estimated the annual loss from VAT fraud across the EU at £40 billion.

The introduction of the reverse charge combined with increased policing and restrictions on the issue of VAT registration numbers is expected to protect revenue of £50 million this year. HMRC has taken on 500 additional staff since last year and turned down 2200 VAT number applications.

But the committees report admitted: Progress on implementing the previous recommendations for tackling VAT fraud has been limited. HMRCs response rate to requests for assistance from other EU members states to tackle VAT fraud was only 55 per cent in 2005/6. The department should set a demanding target for bringing the response rate closer to 100 per cent.

HMRC has secured 157 convictions since 2001. Last year saw 45 convictions for missing trader VAT fraud the biggest annual figure to date.

The FTI said last week it will support traders that wish to appeal to the VAT and Duties tribunal to challenge HMRC over its witholding of VAT repayments.

It said a number of traders businesses have hit the skids because of witheld VAT.

It said in a statement: We are willing to support traders to give them a chance to challenge the decision rather than be on the receiving end of this potential unlawful blanket policy.

The on demand service will include highlights archived footage and live goal clips from Premiership and UEFA Champions League matches. Sky will also allow subscribers to watch its popular Gillette Soccer Saturday and Soccer AM television shows.

The service will be made available to O2 T-Mobile and 3 customers for £5 a month or 50p per download.

Skys partnership with NGN will see the new service jointly advertised in the News of the World The Sun and across Sky television.

BSkyB commercial group director Stephen Nuttall said: 24-7 Football will be the most comprehensive on-demand football service for mobile phones. Were delighted that we can offer this service across all the major UK and Irish networks meaning that many millions of fans can keep up with Skys football coverage wherever they are and at any time of the day.

Brown will report to Timico head of indirect sales Stuart Bell. She said: Timico is a quality company. Ive been on the periphery of converged services for a while and now I can combine my skills from my years in the telecoms and data channels.

She joins Timico from fixed line provider Thus where she was channel account manager.

Orange UK director of devices François Mahieu said: If you compare the two million Walkman phones we have sold to date with the 10 million MP3-enabled handsets we have sold from other manufacturers revenue per user is 50 per cent better among the Walkman crowd.

Orange and Sony Ericsson confirmed stage two of their music partnership last week with a multi-million-pound marketing deal that centres on a new multi-platform music talent show.

The pair said the partnership to date was making good on the promise of mobile content and beginning to satisfy the network requirement for increased data revenues. John Harber said the higher data revenues from Walkman handset users were bringing to life the industry ideal.

He said: It sounds corny but it is good evidence that music is boosting ARPU. It works and with HSDPA and improved handset functionality down the line it is going to drive even more revenue. We can build on that with Orange.

Harber said Sony Ericsson expected total sales of Walkman devices through Orange to top three million this year.

Sony Ericsson is also backing the Orange partnership with a training scheme around its Walkman handsets for 4000 Orange retail staff and a flurry of in-store promotional and point-of-sale material to coincide with the mobileAct programmes. We are helping to develop Orange Retail to be a really good music destination he said.

Mahieu said its customers were downloading 100000 music tracks per month from its Music Store.

He also said the partnership with Sony Ericsson gave Orange access to exclusive Walkman colour variants. It is good for colour exclusives on top of the standard range of Walkman devices he said. We have the richest portfolio of Walkman devices of any network in the UK.

He added that Sony Ericssons work behind the scenes on handset customisation for networks also contributed to the good revenues.

Sony Ericsson captured the trend in music earlier than other manufacturers. It has invested quite heavily in its customisation of handsets for Orange so that Walkman customers can access our music portal in a single click he said.

If you take a generic product SIM-free there is not such a great link between the experience and the network promise on content. In many cases the user experience is quite poor and it is in fact a barrier to wider take-up of content services. Its why many data services struggle to take off.

The majority of phones we range is optimised and Sony Ericsson has worked closely with us.