Situated on the Marsh Barton Trading Estate the area is home to over 500 firms something Jag MD John George hopes to take advantage of.

Marsh Barton has the biggest concentration of motor dealerships in Western Europe and houses 8000 employees. With so many people already on the estate it gives us a good opportunity to offer our services to a high level of business customers.

The new opening brings Jags footprint to 82 stores following the opening of stores in Cowes and Westminster. It also has plans to open stores in Dorchester Portswood and Neath.

More than 90% of shareholders voted against the proposals put forward by Efficient Capital Structures (ECS) who own 0.0004% of the operator. ECS had wanted Vodafone to sell its 45% stake in Verizon and return the proceeds to investors in the form of a £34 billion of bonds.

The issue of Verizon Wireless has been raised time and time again. If the value is rising and there is no current material benefit then there is more to look forward to a retired shareholder Page Victor said ahead of the voting.

Ainscough fills the role that was left vacant after Ed Richards appointment as chief executive in 2006. Ainscoughs new role will see her oversee the technology and spectrum operations as well as the groups human resources and finance departments.

Her previous roles include head of marketing at NTL and senior financial analyst for Granada.

Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said: Ofcom is very fortunate to have found someone of Jills calibre and experience for this crucial role. I know she will make an excellent contribution to our important consumer and citizen-facing activities and well as to the effectiveness of the working practices of a lean regulator.

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From August 30 the network will charge customers 39c per minute for making outgoing call and 19c per minute for receiving incoming calls. These rates are considerably lower than the level recommended by the EU Commission who recommend charging 59c per minute for making calls and 29c per minute for receiving calls.

The price cuts make 3 the cheapest network for roaming charges in Ireland as its rival operators have only cut their prices to the level recommended by the EU Commission.

3 managing director Robert Finnegan said: Today 3 has announced the most competitive EU roaming prices available to Irish consumers. 3 has been leading the campaign to end the roaming rip-off experienced by mobile users and has lobbied hard for the lowering of wholesale rates charged by the old networks.

3 is the only network to have chosen to offer better pricing than the Eurotariff whilst the old networks do nothing more for consumers than they have to.

The Cornwall based tourist attraction has joined forces with Swiftpass an LUUP to allow visitors to buy tickets using their mobile phone. Customers must sign up for an LUUP account and register their card details before texting 80988 for their tickets. This will initiate an instant payment from their LUUP account and a barcode ticket will be sent directly to their handset.

Customers must present the barcode for scanning at the entrance of the site and in return will avoid having to queue.

Mobile ticketing has been in use at the Eden Project since last year but until now customers had to call the box office and pay over the phone in order to receive their ticket via text.

Eden Project head of ICT Jon Curry said: This development builds on the good work on ticket fulfilment we did last summer with Swiftpass. Now using the LUUP payment system for the first time we are able to offer our customers a fully automated paperless advanced ticketing system using nothing but their mobile phone.

The deal will allow N800 customers to make calls via a wireless Internet connection using Skype. Nokia has also revealed that Skype will be available for download to existing customers.

Nokia vice president of convergence products Ari Virtanen said: Skype is the recognized leader in internet calling with more than 196 million registered users worldwide. The Nokia N800 gives people easy access to the internet and its a natural step that they will want to make Skype calls away from their desktop.

Fraser has over 12 years industry experience and joins from The Accessory People (TAP) where he spent five years as global sales manager. Prior to TAP he was retail manager at dealership Network Cellular Communications.

Fraser is tasked with growing Genuines dealer base primarily in London. Genuine sales and purchasing director Christian McBride said: His main role will be to encourage and grow our UK dealer business while giving us feedback from our customer.

Vodafone World charges 38p a minute to make a call and 19p a minute to receive a call for UK customers to travelling to Europe from August 29.

Customers can elect to move to or remain on the Passport service which charges a 75p connection fee per call and then the users normal home tariff.

Customers who choose to move off Passport will be subject to Vodafone World. Customers not already on Passport will automatically be subject to Vodafone World.

A Vodafone spokesman said that for longer calls Passport rates would be more cost effective.

Orange 3 and Tesco Mobile have all announced they are cutting European roaming rates.

3 customers will pay 25p per minute for outgoing calls and 10p a minute for incoming calls.

Orange rates will be the same as Vodafone.

Tesco was the first to announce its reduction charging 30p a minute to make a call and 15p to receive a call.

All mobile networks will be required to offer roaming tariffs in line with the ECs caps.

Kent based firm Communic8 Ltd has been chosen to distribute the new handset called Emporia Life. The phone will be user friendly for the older generations and features a wide screen large buttons powerful vibration and a loudspeaker.

The handset also contains a number of functions that are useful for customers with disabilities. This includes an orange backlight for the partially sighted and compatibility with digital hearing aids for users with hearing difficulties.

There is also large panic button on the back of the phone that can be programmed to call up to five designated numbers.

Communic8 managing director Stewart Smith said: We firmly believe the Emporia Life will prove to be a lifeline for those people who find current mobiles very difficult to use. With over 80000 handsets already sold in Germany we are sure the life handset will similar impact in the UK.