DCC plc, the parent company of Exertis, has announced it will sell the top-tier distributor as part of a new strategic direction focusing on the energy sector. DCC aims to streamline its portfolio to capitalise on growth opportunities in energy. This announcement was made by DCC Chief Executive Donal Murphy during the company’s interim results

Exertis has appointed Paul Jacobs as its new Trading Director as part of a management reorganisation designed to “sharpen the distributor’s focus on key markets” including AV, Components, IT Solutions, Mobile, Print, and consumer channels. Previously, Jacobs was Trading Director for Devices. He assumes responsibility for commercial, purchasing, and business development functions. Jacobs joined Exertis

The UK will miss out on £11bn of infrastructure investment to deliver 5G Standalone to 95 percent of the population by 2030 and 99 percent of the UK population by 2034 unless the Vodafone Three merger goes ahead. So says Vodafone UK’s Chief Network Officer, Andrea Donà, citing findings from research that indicate nationwide 5G

Vodafone’s former Regional CEO of Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, Vivek Badrinath, will become GSMA director general and  GSMA Board member in April. This follows the announcement in June 2024 that current director general, Mats Granryd, will step down after MWC Barcelona. From March, he will take on a new role as special advisor

Tesco Mobile Chief Customer Officer Rachel Swift has joined Virgin Media O2 as Brand and Advertising Director to lead brand strategy, loyalty, sponsorship and partnerships, and advertising, Her appointment marks a return to O2 where she was brand and creative Director for two years.. She has also held similar positions at John Lewis and Marks

GSMA director general  Mats Granryd, Director General will depart the role after MWC Barcelona 2025 following nine years in the post, and having twice agreed a contract extension. A successor will be chosen in due course. Granryd has declined further extensions. He will remain as the DG until the end of March 2025 and then

Virgin Media O2 Business has struck a deal with the government procurement organisation to supply the public sector with a full range of digital services with discounts. The network, along with the Crown Commercial Service, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at accelerating the replacement of legacy technology with new digital solutions across government

Virgin Media O2 and IT consulting and services giant Accenture have teamed up to develop applications for businesses interested in utilising 5G mobile private networks. The technology includes computer vision AI for product quality control monitoring of equipment to meet factory floor compliance requirements and queue management systems. The applications are built on Accenture’s Edge

Sustainable telecoms equipment and solutions provider TXO has appointed ex-BT executive Kevin Taylor MBE as Chairman. 

HighNet head of mobile services Tony Miller has joined Giacom as mobile account director for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scottish-based HighNet is now part of Focus Group. Giacom is the new unified comms group formed last month by combining Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS) and Union Street which supply comms, cloud, hardware and billing services Miller

Ericsson shareholders have failed in their bid to sue Ericsson’s CEO and board members over the scandal of its payment of bribes to ISIS terrorists in 2019 which caused its stock to drop by a third. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has dismissed the securities litigation brought by certain

Mobile News Awards Innovative Product finalist Ocushield has been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise. The company, conceived in a university bedroom, makes eyewear products said to protect from the damaging effects of harmful blue light emitted from smartphone and computer screens. The Award recognises the London-based organisation for its growth and commercial success in

Ex-Phones marketing chief Scott Hooton has joined online electricals retailer AO Mobile Director as Mobile Director including Mobile Phones Direct. He has been working in the background as an advisor to AO since it acquired Mobile Phones Direct in 2019. He takes over from group services director Paul Dawson who has has been leading mobile

Unified comms reseller approved to sell services to govt departments without falling into the tender trap

Study will consider how to fast-track chip startups and testing

Lack of digital skills is costing the UK economy billions, but the private sector must do more, says Martin McFadyen, Virgin Media O2 Business’ Head of Public Sector

Trend to SIM-only contracts gathers pace says GfK.

Utilities represent part of the critical national infrastructure in the UK, and are prone to cyber threats. Here, Alastair MacLeod, CEO at Ground Control, a satellite focused, IoT and M2M critical communications connectivity provider, examines how utilities companies can mitigate these threats to ensure commercial operations are not compromised

Offers are exclusive to Virgin Media and O2 customers

Ofcom can make recommendations to the government to change regulations and involve the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) if the market isn’t working well

Connect Pulse claimed to be only network product to allow users to configure their own connection packages Vodafone has launched what it claims is the first network tariff product to allow customers to add and remove users as they need without charging a fee. Called Vodafone Pulse Connect it is a converged and flexible solution aimed at small

Eurostar Global has developed a niche for offering full-service distribution to carefully selected partners, and is now preparing for the next phase of its development with a move to a new warehouse

The teams across both Exertis’ offices will report to Sutherland

Details were unveiled at its global headquarters in London to mark the opening of its ‘Aurora’ customer innovation showcase

COVID-19 has led to enforced lockdowns in parts of China, resulting in the closure of some manufacturing hubs. Mobile News spoke to some analysts to get their take on how this might impact on the global smartphone industry

Weston takes up new challenge is SaaS sector

Other recent Eseye appointment include Brian Casto as Senior VP of global professional services, Michael Cihra as senior VP, alliances and partners, and Larry Socher as VP of strategy and solutions

Rollout of Vodafone’s FTTP service will hit 35 locations across the UK in coming weeks

Reunites with Telefonica colleague Stephen Shurrock

Ryan Ding also touched on the importance of Green ICT for the future

Guy has created an array of products such as Hive thermostat, security cameras, home diagnostics and Curve tracker 

Bizon previously worked in senior positions at 20th Century Fox and was a go-to-market and channel management director at Three UK.

Bhatti will report to Liz Greenwood and oversee a team of three

Dannan has also previously worked for T-Mobile and EE

The Telecoms industry now makes up 3.8% of total UK R&D spending

O’Neill will be based at Exertis’ national distribution centre in Burnley

Williams has previously spent four years in B2B roles at Exertis

The disconnect between legacy systems and mobile needs to be addressed, says Sarah Edge, director of sales for the UK and Ireland at SOTI

Smethurst takes on the newly created role after 17 years at Gamma

Industry veteran Whitehead brings over 20-years of mobile industry experience

He has previously held senior direct roles at Nike, Camper and Superdry

The appointments symbolise the next stage of strategic growth, says DWS

Jon Davies joins the company after six years at Vodafone

Hennessy replaces the outgoing Buttsworth and remains as Three Ireland CTO

Frankenberger joins Xiaomi, with the vendor eyeing up a top three place in the UK

The rollout is anticipated to continue to other WHSmith locations

Record £800 million of investment raised by firms in the last year

Swantee has held senior roles at a number of different telco’s 

All three will start with immediate effect

Cotton started his new role at Plan earlier this month

Outdoor-friendly cameras and tablets in the offing, says European CEO

O’Connor previously led the marketing team in Ireland and has delivered multiple award-winning strategies and campaigns

John Walkley to head insurance and remarketed device push

LG seeks to tackle ‘uncharted territory’ in mobile industry

Datta has spent 15 years across various senior leadership roles prior to his new job

The duo will be based at the dealer’s London HQ

The telco has become the lead technology partner for Worcestershire 5G Testbed (W5G)

Sarah Walker is a BT lifer with nearly 23 years at the telco

Gary Lomas joins from IT provider Logicalis

Marsden has began her new role with immediate effect 

Lake spent 25 years at BT prior to his new role

CCS Insight’s Kester Mann moderated a session that discussed how the used device market is coming of age now that the stigma of people using second-hand phones has abated 

O2 launched its 5G network in October last year

Sharon Hegarty brings 20+ years of experience across industries

The network has announced tailored tariffs for both sets of customers

Kasam Hussain joined the company in 2016 as a graduate

Scanlan made the comments during Huawei’s first ever Trust in Tech Symposium

Global mobile penetration will rise rapidly in 2020, but broadband expansion will be slower while fixed lines will fall.

Emma Blackburn brings 10 years of experience at BT to bear on new role

Kasim Javed says his firm is aiming to build its portfolio and partnerships in a challenging environment

Second high-profile departure from regulator after CEO Sharon White

Eagle replaces Mark Kahr who became Exertis Group procurement director in June

Fibre rollout and community projects also high on agenda

Distributor has made four appointments in past week

Pricing and availability has not yet been confirmed by the vendor In My Opinion (IMO) has announced the IMO Q2 Plus 2019 as its latest smartphone, with the handset poised to release in early October. The challenger brand has confirmed that the Q2 Plus will be available in either pink or blue. It’s a follow up to

Operator aims for coverage in 50 cities by mid-2020

Onecom secured £100m in funding from a private equity firm

Marcus Weldon said Huawei was guilty of “sloppiness” and “obfuscation”

Raymond Kay has 40+ years experience in comms business

Polish vendor mPTech has hired Data Select to help it push for four million sales in the next year

Mobile division reported steadier figures however with strong demand for Galaxy S10 handsets

Industry veteran Brogan says the focus will be be on partnering with local companies

Wills joined from rival distributor Westcoast over a year ago

Sites to see 5G later in the year include Blackpool, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton

Service will use live footage to help doctors make life-saving decisions

Huawei has faced continuous scrutiny amid ‘spying’ allegations 

The first core network services are expected in summer 2019

Ingleby has worked across a number of different sectors and was most recently at Assurant  Exertis has announced the appointment of Howard Ingleby to the newly created position of programme director for the UK and Ireland. The role sees Ingleby reporting to Exertis chief operating officer Richard Hinds and he will be tasked with the

New appointment recently left rugged handset manufacturer where he was brand manager

Dowd suddenly left O2 as group sales director in September last year

Former O2 CEO Matthew Key has joined the BT board as a non-executive director. He has also assumed roles as a member of the audit and risk committee and the nominating and governance committee. During his time at O2, Key struck a deal with Apple to exclusively range the first iPhone in the UK in

It will cost £779.99 prepaid and £49 upfront and £47 a month, on Three contract

Delegates and partners heard how Vodafone is preparing itself for a new age of technology

Henry West joined FluidOne from Hull-based internet service provider KCOM

McMillen joins Virgin Media Business from July 23

Lathwood has been at UKFast since 2000 and is the longest serving employee at the cloud firm

EE aims to be the first operator in the UK to launch 5G 

After 25 years at Access Communications Philips makes the move.

The current CEO will be succeeded by chief financial officer Nick Read from October 1