Price-plans available with all networks with the 16GB device free on selected plans from £45 a month

Handset upgrades down as customers wait on iPhone 5 release

Tablet designed by consumer retailer costs £1,099 SIM-free and is targeted at construction staff or environments where devices can be easily damaged

Datahop division becomes a Tier 1 carrier for co-location data centre service provider, offering services from the company’s new London base

Swedish firm reportedly one of two companies contemplating buying business support system division of Nokia Siemens Networks

Managed data services provider continues its acquisition strategy to add new capability in areas such as IP telephony and video conferencing

Vodafone platinum acquires purchases over 1,000 connections from MPC London, following a similar deal with Connection 365 at the end of last month

Partnership with B2B telecom and solution provider sees GPS Telecom join the AbzorbPlus+ partner programme

Investigation from Which? finds eight tenths of mobile shop staff are providing customers with inaccurate information about the possibility of price rises

Retailer says rise is down to customers delaying getting new phones to wait for major handset launch announcements expected this autumn

UK mobile and accessories retailer extends operations outside Europe for the first time

Vodafone platinum partner buys network bases from Westcom Mobile Technology and Car Telephone Services, and is targeting further acquisitions

Retailer offering the handset for the knock-down price for one week on its Talk Mobile MVNO

Former Fone Solutions director and wife registered bankrupt on July 31

Retailer looking for a bigger portion of the accessories space but warns manufacturers must produce broader ranges

Managed data services provider says achievement will give customers the confidence their data is safe whilst enabling new working practices

Retailer becomes the first in the UK to sell the handset, with all customers buying one having the chance to win tickets to a private gig by Professor Green

Managed data services provider acquires Cloud Computing Centre, and agrees new £8 million funding package with Penta Capital

Sales fall by 6.8 percent quarter-on-quarter and 28.6 per cent year-on-year as firm ships 13.1 million units

Evolve Telecom’s purchase of The Word see’s the Welsh-based dealer’s founder and CEO exit the industry

Unified communications provider chosen as one of 14 suppliers to deliver communications services under the agreement

Old mobiles handed into Orange or T-Mobile shops to be recycled, with funds going towards raising £1 million for the ‘Mobile for Meals’ campaign

CCS Mobile, One Point Comms, Pescado, Unified World and Totility move up to the top tier of operator’s dealer programme

Phones 4u blames 2011 full year profit dip on increasing cost of paying out on insurance claims on more costly smartphones, but says that its retail business is healthy and growing