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Frequency launches dedicated B2B online portal

‘Web Shop’ provides retail partners with live data feeds on stock availability and pricing, as well as downloadable product and marketing collateral

August 12, 2014

Olive beats 900 tech companies to best website award

B2B dealer rated above firms such as Ingram Micro, Mitel, Cisco, Gamma and Peach Telecom by TECHtionary, which says it excels in navigation, clarification, infographics and animation

OneCom scores two-year sponsorship deal with Portsmouth FC

Vodafone Platinum Partner to sponsor one of the stands at its home ground and also becomes its exclusive mobile supplier

Sprint to name Claure as CEO as plug pulled on T-Mobile deal

Brightstar founder will replace Dan Hesse, as Sprint board members vote against proceeding with the $32 billion acquisition of T-Mobile US

Dixons Carphone £3.8bn merger nears debut on August 7

Dixons Retail shares to trade for the final time tomorrow and will be merged into Carphone shares the following day, before trading on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday

Kassler assumes full executive responsibility for Phones 4u

Transition period following Kassler’s October appointment is completed

John Doughty joins protective case manufacturer Tech21

Doughty becomes accessory firms new ‘global commercial director’ three months after quitting Brightstar 20:20

Outsourcery co-CEO Linney joins Cabinet Office SME Panel

One of the bosses of the cloud service provider to provide insight to SMEs from the IT sector to help them win more public service contracts

Tech Data Mobile’s Lumia deal first of summer run

More smartphone distribution contracts to come as Ingram’s exclusive ends

BT One Phone chases enterprise market

Telecoms provider targeting mobile market leadership, driven by its new unified communications offering

Phones 4u ad blitz with ‘biggest-ever’ campaign

Retailer launches multi-million pound push after admitting being guilty of not promoting its service offering as it could in the past

OneCom pays £1,000 each to 150 staff for Vodafone award

CEO Ridge keeps bonus pledge after B2B dealer claims Platinum Partner for fourth year running

Daisy Distribution adds One Net Business to its portfolio

Airtime distribution sets up accreditation programme for partners and offers bonus of Â£1,000 to those connecting accounts of more than 12 seats from now until September

Daisy gains Institute of Customer Service accreditation

Business communications provider’s ‘Customer Focus’ workshops recognised, which have attracted more than 300 employees since launch in May

Daisy Distribution incentivises unified communications

Partners to be rewarded for pushing Microsoft 365, fixed-line services and Vodafone One Net Business

Ethos rebrands as part of SME sales drive

Rebrand places unified communications at centre of the firm’s marketing

Vodafone rev-share woes continue to irk partners

A number of dealers are reporting continued delays with rev-share payments following its introduction last year

Lumia 930 available to pre-order from Carphone Warehouse

Customers who pre-order ahead of 17 July release date will receive £130 worth of Nokia accessories

Andy Tow to leave Avenir/Chess Partner Services

Mobile News understands Chess Partner Services (formerly Avenir Telecom) MD Andy Tow put on gardening leave – ending his six-year affiliation with the firm

IT heritage gives Micro-P the edge

Arguably its greatest triumph to date was being awarded one of two distribution agreements with Nokia; Financially, Exertis Micro-P is on the crest of a wave with turnover to the year end-March of over £500 million

Getting To Know You: Bob Sweetlove

In a Mobile News first, we decided to leave out the more familiar hard hitting questions around performance and financials to take time to get to know the real Bob Sweetlove

Phones 4u to range Samsung Galaxy S5 mini

Handset announced earlier this week expected to be available in UK by the end of July

Samsung head of sales Warren Saunders joins rival Sony Mobile

Saunders quits Samsung after five years to become UK and Ireland sales director at Sony

EU introduces new caps to halve mobile data roaming costs

Internet activity now costs 16p per megabyte, with the cost of making calls falling 21 per cent to and sending a text by 25 per cent to 5p per message

Dixons Carphone merger to complete in early August

Deal set for completion subject to shareholder approval. Carphone shareholders will vote at AGM on July 15th

Exertis sponsor Mobile News ‘Wearable Tech – Hope or Hype?’ conference

Tickets now on sale for our second ‘Beyond Mobile’ event – this time discussing the opportunities around wearable technology, a market estimated to be worth £5 billion by 2018

Carphone sets sights on IT market for airtime attack

New online affiliate programme to help drive 30,000 new mobile connections this year

Ingram Micro promises to bring the noise to B2B

Firm vows to educate the market on its breadth of services as part of brand refresh; Admits UK perception needed improving following the purchase of BrightPoint in 2012

Olive spends £8m buying software firm SafetyBank

Vodafone Platinum Partner makes its tenth acquisition in two years, with chief executive Martin Flick describing it as a ‘game-changer’

OneCom catches IT deal with Ageas Bowl

Vodafone Platinum Partner to provide IT support and restoration and back-up services to cricket ground in what is its biggest IT service contract to date

OneCom named Vodafone ‘Platinum Partner of the Year’

B2B dealer wins accolade for the fourth successive year, with CommXchange named as the first Total Communications Partner of the Year

Mainline offering free delivery of products throughout July

Offer open to dealers placing orders on distributor’s new online ordering system, which it claims provides them with an easier way of doing business with it

Carphone Warehouse meets expectations with full year results

Connection base falls by 6.4 per cent to 8.4 million at mobile phone retailer

Ingram reveals debut recycling programme

Distributor combines with CANAI for offering to mobile reseller channel

Vodafone profits as Olive bags 6,000 connections from O2

Major contracts with CitySprint and Murphy Group worth around 3,000 connections each

P4U offers free Adidas trainers with latest HTC One handsets

Customers will win a personalised footwear worth more than Â£100 when they take out a contract for the One (M8) or mini 2

Alan Barry: Salesman with an AK-47

MUST READ: Explosions and blood thirsty mobs. Phone salesman Alan Barry discusses his extraordinary career working in some of the most hostile and dangerous destinations on the planet

Connect Telecom moves into telematics

New connectivity service from Northern Irelands only Vodafone gold partner

LG team up with McAfee for G3 security

LG G3 smartphone to come preinstalled with McAfee Mobile Security

Chess Telecom completes acquistion of Avenir Telecom

IT and fixed line provider Chess Telecom has completed the acquisition of O2 and EE airtime distributor Avenir Telecom. Andy Tow becomes MD of newly formed Chess Partner Services division.

Exertis Micro-P shuffles mobile management structure

Stuart Bruce (pictured) takes on new role of head of services and accessories sales and is replaced by returning Joe Officer at distributor’s Attach division

Daisy to run World Cup handset sales incentive

Dealers to draw teams, with winner receiving a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact smartphone and wireless charging mat

Huawei launch ‘ultra slim’ MediaPad M1 tablet

O2 and Carphone Warehouse to stock eight inch 4G ready device

Mainline to run promotion for dealers to celebrate World Cup

Every handset purchased will act as an entry into a prize draw that includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the FA National Football Centre

Relish targets London broadband market with wireless offering

New wireless 4G broadband service available in capital initially with nationwide rollout planned

Vodafone won’t back down on corporation tax avoidance row

Minimal UK profits and heavy investment in stores and 4G among reasons to justify decision

Brightstar 20:20 sales director Hollis leaves after just two months

Former EE veteran, who was head of indirect retail at the operator for a year, departs the business

Busy OneCom breaks its six month record

Vodafone Platinum Partner adds Â£20 million worth of business and 25,000 mobile connections as its growth continues