Posted on February 1, 2011Tags: 2e2, O2, Orange, Peter Boucher, Pocket Landline, Vodafone

Parallel distribution channels have “no god-given right” to sell mobile-centric unified communications, says Vodafone
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Posted on January 31, 2011Tags: 20:20 Mobile, 20:20 Mobile Ireland, Barry Napier, BPI, Don Maher, Fergus deBurca, Fergus Sweeney, James Blackman, Meteor, O2, Radius, Singma, Vodafone, Vodafone Ireland

20:20 Mobile's shared ownership with Vodafone Ireland of 20:20 Mobile Ireland looked like a licence to print money. Why then was it so eager to sell?
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Posted on January 20, 2011Tags: 2e2, James Blackman, O2, O2 Unify, OneNet, Orange, Pocket Landline, Vodafone

The mobile industry is moving to embrace unified comms and 'cloud' computing in 2011, and operators Vodafone, O2 and Orange are putting stakes in the ground
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Posted on January 18, 2011Tags: 20:20 Mobile, Activ Telecom, Alternative Networks, AMC, Amirul Choudhry, Andrew Boden, Andrew Dawson, Android, Andy Tow, ANOVO, Anthony Catterson, Anurag Gupta, Apple, Avenir, Azzurri, Barry Moore, Ben Wood, BlackBerry, Bluechipworld, bob sweetlove, Brightpoint, Brightstar, BT, BuyMobilePhones.net, Carphone Warehouse, CCS, Chris Earle, Chris Jones, Chris Stanton, Christian Nellemann, Chytelk, Clive Bayley, Comm Sense, Craig Wellman, Crispin Thomas, Crystal Ball, Daisy, Damian Cole, Dave McGinn, David Hilton, Desi Mobo, EBS, Elite Mobile, Everything Everywhere, Excalibur, Expansys, Focus 4U, Fonehouse, Frank Masson, Frequency, Gareth Limpenny, Geraldine Wilson, Gerry, Get Connected, GK Telecom, Google, Gurminder Dulku, Guy Laurence, Hartwood, HSC, HTC, Huawei, Ian Gillespie, Ian Robinson, Ian Watson, iPhone, James Browning, James Murray, James Phipps, Jason Yeomans, Jim Michel, John Doughty, Jon French, Jonathan Brasnett, Jonathan Kini, Keane Beaken, Ketan Gokani, Kevin McHugh, Kondor, lg, Lycamobile, Mainline, Marcelo Claure, Marcus Richardson, Mark Burland, Matt Sandford, Matt Stringer, Michael Richardson, Micro-P, Mike Hallam, Mike Ridgwat, Milind Kangle, Mobix, MoCo, Motorola, Nigel Field, O2, OneStream, Orange, Outsourcery, Pama, Paul Leonard, Paul Sisson, Peter Kelly, Phil Rider, Philip Johnston, Phones 4U, Piers Linney, Premier Mobile, Pure Mobile, Purecom, Qualitel, Raj Singh, Richard Harris, RIM, Rob Haycock, Rod Millar, Russell Braterman, S3i, Sacha Visram, Samsung, Simon Hassell, Simon Stanford, sony ericsson, Sprint Comms, Stephen Bates, Stephen Maxwell, Sunrise, T-Mobile, Three, Tim Sefton, Tim Whiting, Timico, TMTI, Tom Alexander, Tom Satchwell, Trefor Davies, Unicom, URL, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Voice Mobile, Welcomm, Wish Communications, Wu Sa, XLN, ZTE

Mobile News polled 73 industry leaders for their views on the year ahead. The result is a sector fighting to renew itself, putting its entire focus on smartphones and data to arrest a decline in traditional revenues
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Posted on January 5, 2011Tags: Clive Bayley, Fonehouse

Fonehouse managing director Clive Bayley on the year ahead for the dealer market, and the complexities and pitfalls that await it
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Posted on January 5, 2011Tags: Daisy, Dave McGinn

Daisy Distribution managing director Dave McGinn on the year ahead for airtime distribution and unified communications
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Posted on December 21, 2010Tags: Everything Everywhere, Orange

Orange's new FMC product Pocket Landline is a slight return, and it must do more to catch up with O2 and Vodafone in the business market
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Posted on December 17, 2010Tags: BlackBerry, Orange, RIM, TAT

BlackBerry's purchase of The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) is massive for the Canadian phone market, reckons dealer Jez Harris, and might just enable it to update its old UI and compete better with Apple, Android and now Windows
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Posted on November 18, 2010Tags: Alastair Mills, Anglia, Daisy, Fone Logistics, Matthew Riley, O2, Redstone, SpiriTel

Daisy Group’s biggest purchase to date sees absorption of major accounts and 40,000 O2 lines
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Posted on November 18, 2010Tags: Alastair Mills, Daisy, Matthew Riley, SpiriTel

Protagonists in the £27 million sale of service provider SpiriTel to Daisy Group reckon chief executive Alastair Mills job on the business will be a model for market consolidation through 2011
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