Currys’ MVNO iD Mobile, has reached the two million subscriber milestone, adding 488,000 new subscribers in the past year.  iD Mobile, whch launched nine years ago is hosted by Three and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Currys. It positions itself as a “value” network promoting affordability, flexibility, and a variety of features. It received ‘Great

Northampton-based mobile spare parts distributor Replace Base is moving its warehouse operations into PSA Parts Group’s 30,000-square-foot facility in London. This move follows an investment by PSA into Replace Base last year. PSA invested in Replace Base to expand its UK presence. Founded in 1985, the company has been in the IT spare parts industry

Exertis employees have raised £125,000 for Mental Health UK from golf days, bake sales, dress-down days, raffles and tech sales. Exertis employees have now voted to select eight local charities including six hospices, one homeless charity and one teenage cancer charity. The full list is: St Michael’s Hospice in Basingstoke, East Lancashire Hospice in Burnley,

ESIM provider and distributor GK Telecom plans to roll out 1,000 eSIM McDonald’s-type touchscreen kiosks across the UK that allow people to purchase an eSIM that works in 160 countries, with just a few finger taps.  The digital kiosk is being launched next week at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, which is expected to

eSIM provider and distributor GK Telecom plans to roll out 1,000 eSIM McDonald’s-type touchscreen kiosks across the UK that allow people to purchase an eSIM that works in 160 countries, with just a few finger taps.  The digital kiosk is being launched next week at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, which is expected to

The country’s public payphones will be tirned into high-speed connectivity hubs courtesy of BT and the Media & Entertainment group Global. The two companies have signed a 10-year partnership to upgrade legacy payphones and 2,000 payphones into digital hubs for local communities in more than 200 towns and cities that will provide public Wi-Fi and

Tesco Mobile added over 200,000 new pay-monthly subscribers and boosted its market share by 12 per cent last year. The network, which recently renewed its network agreement with Virgin Media O2 for another 10 years. also improved its churn rate and now claims to be the UK’s largest MVNO with 5.5 million customers. Tesco Mobile

Vodafone UK has reported a 5.2 per cent increase in service revenue in its latest quarterly financial update, demonstrating strong performance across both its Consumer and Business segments. The mobile sector witnessed an addition of 18,000 contract customers, attributed to robust seasonal trading and an improvement in consumer contract retention by 0.8 percentage points year-on-year.

Vodafone culled 179,0000 low-income legacy SIMs which impacted the size of the contract customer base in the first half of the year. 

Virgin Media O2’s mobile contract base put on 50,000 new users in the third quarter of the year to a total of 16.1 million with monthly consumer contract churn remaining low at one per cent. 

Nokia is to slash up to 14,000 jobs by 2026 to reduce cost base by up to €1.2bn million and increase operational efficiency

Vodafone has disconnected 66,000 ‘zero value’ SIMS provided to businesses during the COVID pandemic. The SIMS were cut off over the last three months and caused the contract base to dip by 66,000. But revenue increased by 5.7 per cent partly due to annual price increases and good growth in Business, In one of its

IT and comms distributor is Westcoast planting 40,000 trees to celebrate its 40th anniversary of being in business. The company has organised a week of celebrations.

Sky Ireland has paid Irish the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) €54,000 to avoid prosecution for failing to put consumer references on customers’ bills as required by law. Consumer references are defined as the numbers required to switch service provider Failure to comply is an offence . ComReg found the discrepancy after investigating complaints by

BT Group will cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030 to reduce the current 130,000 number of employees to between 75,000 and 90,000. “The end of the 2020’s BT Group will reply on a much smaller workforce and a significantly reduced cost base. New BT Group will be a leaner business with a brighter future”,

Vodafone Group plans to axe 11,000 jobs over the next three years as new CEO Margherita Della Valle announces a “rebalancing” of the of the global company

Virgin Media O2 added 297,000 mobile connections during the first three months of the year. This includes connections from wholesale customers such as Sky Mobile.

Huawei has launched a £2,000 flagship smartphone called the Mate X3 claimed to be the world’s slimmest and lightest large-screen foldable smartphone”

The scheme is being handled through Euan Blair’s  skills training organisation

Foundation will send equipment and volunteers on request

Mozillion gives every refurbished phone a two year guarantee as well as managing after sales and customer service on behalf of the seller

This forms as part of Sky’s ambitious goal to combat the digital divide and offer support to a quarter of a million digitally excluded people via a £10m fund

The UK is known to produce the most electrical waste, and as per the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) forum’s global report, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away this year and e-waste will grow to 74 million tonnes a year by 2030

While it is a UK-based company, Truphone also owns Montana based iSmart Mobile and has a Delaware-incorporated US operating unit

Business.connected was launched in 2021 to help SMEs adopt new technology, boost digital skills and stay safe online

Shortcode service was set up last September to tackle fraud

The highly anticipated Phone (1) launches next week

The phones will go to the Ukrainian Association of Women in Law Enforcement to help search and rescue efforts and for counselling

The ISP is eyeing up 500,000 premises by 2025

The technology accessories firm is working with the Polish Red Cross to support the donations

Truphone is accused by the Federal Communications Commission of allegedly exceeding statutory limits without Commission approval

Cellhire plans to keep providing mobile data connections for other global entertainment events in the future

£2bn investment in infrastructure and customer service

Ofcom regularly make statutory requests for information from companies to protect customers

At least 110 customers were ‘slammed’ by the two firms according to Ofcom investigation

The recently merged company launched its Volt product last month 

The SIMs have been given to the refugees based in London and Leicester 

The Android malware has been found in over 140 countries

Cellhire will provide a similar service at The 2022 Winter Olympics and 2022 FIFA World Cup next year

CEO Jansen says the FTTP boost will aide the UK’s economic recovery

The Finnish telco currently employs close to 90,000 people

Uswitch.com research crowns Queens Road in Weybridge, Surrey as slowest street for broadband

Fine intended to ensure maximum Huawei strip-out

Schools.connected programme gives children SIM with 30GB data allowance and is valid for 90 days

Hong Kong company wants to beat Ulefone to the punch

Efficiencies lead to energy savings of more than £10m

Acquisition fee not enough to reimburse creditors

The operator has collaborated with the care technology supplier to power a specially adapted tablet

The average handset costs £355 compared to £72.50 back in 2000

S88 Pro ships globally from AliExpress and DOOGEE online store

Three-year programme to target both skilled workers and unemployed

Device available on Amazon, AliExpress, Banggood and DOOGEE store

County Broadband’s full-fibre rollout will provide rural areas with speeds of up to 1Gbps 

At least 118 customers affected between April 2018 and January 2019

The dealer has just sealed a deal with a remote care provider

SFSY marked the contract completion by visiting a number of local businesses that have benefited from the faster speeds

The 14 person Excalibur team conquered three mountain peaks: Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike

Malware originated from Chinese third-party app store

Range of phones includes UK’s cheapest foldable

11 more locations have been confirmed today for connection to fibre broadband

Phone and broadband provider Cloud M will have to pay a customer £1,000 in compensation 

Abzorb will provide Locala with around 1,000 mobile phone connections for up to three years

New devices have the monqi operating system for parents to monitor their children’s behaviour

Cornwall and the Lake District will see 5G testing his year 

The new job roles will provide “better job security” according to BT CEO

iPhones were the most lost device at 7,394, followed by Samsung devices at 6,091, in third was Nokia mobiles at 3,012

Ridge rode 300 miles starting in Falmouth, to Cornwall, and finally London

Verve Connect mobile brand, IMO, is aiming to take a 30 per cent share of the pre-paid market in the second half of 2018.

BT have announced plans to cut managerial and back-office positions across its global workforce

10 cities will receive the 4G spectrum as transportation hubs and major shopping centres will be prioritised 

More than three million customers and 1,000 employees had personal data accessed by hackers

Ofcom issued the fine after analysing 250 sales call recordings in a year long investigation

Transport for London (TFL) took BT to court for oversights in safety procedure, the second time the two have been in court together in a year.

Gadget retail store invests £350,000 in expansion

The report polled 1,278 executives across eight sectors over the past year, Vodafone claims it is the leading global survey of business sentiment regarding innovation and investment in IoT

Festival goers were able to exchange their portable charger for a fully charged product

More than 100 staff across company’s 12 regional offices take part in mile-long runs

Vodafone dealers CommsXchange and Evolution Telco have been merged into the Connect brand as a result of the purchase

The scheme offers the Samsung Galaxy S5 and S6 as well as an extensive iPhone range

Telecoms provider continued charging for landline and broadband services, totalling more than £500,000

The 2017 event in Barcelona beat last year’s record of 101,000 attendees

The campaign launched in November last year asking for Ofcom to cap the amount of spectrum any operator can hold at 30 per cent

The manufacturer is cutting around 3,000 jobs including a fifth of positions in its handset business in China

Device from Huawei’s online sub-brand had £70 knocked off its price during the two sales extravaganza days

The personal data of more than 133,000 customers have been at risk following the data breach

Merger of two of Vodafone’s biggest dealers will see Onecom revenues top £80 million 

The latest game in the Nintendo franchise was launched in the UK yesterday (July 14)

MD Donovan describes VR as the “Christmas present for this year” as the segment continues to grow

Structure at Westfield London enables customers to try the manufacturer’s latest mobile products and technologies

Contract, in partnership with BT, is said to be one of the single biggest of its kind in the public sector

Manufacturer revealed that virtual reality headset saw a massive response when it went on pre-order on Monday

The total number of visitors at this year’s conference nearly hit a record 101,000

Smartphones will replace traditional pocket notebooks as Vodafone connects South Wales Police and Gwent Police forces to 4G

Broadband saw revenue grow three per cent to £4.5 billion, with EBITDA up the same to £1.6 billion for final three months of 2015

Telecoms provider makes move to answer more than four fifths of consumer calls by the end of this year 

The charity MVNO has forecasted UK subscription numbers to hit 140,00 by 2016

Duo sign up for a further two years, with decision driven by the efficiencies provided by its fleet management solution, CommsManager

Four robbers stole 160 iPhone 6s handsets from the Carphone store

Distributor, specialising in IT, telecom and consumer electronics fulfilment is expecting up to 60,000 additional orders tomorrow (November 27)