Circular economy startup Reboxed has launched ReboxedOS, a platform aimed at helping brands manage consumer electronics trade ins and inventory management The platform allows companies to establish and scale co-branded resale, trade-in, and recycling programs, with a focus on both revenue growth and sustainability. It has been designed to integrate with existing systems, allowing brands

Zegona is setting up a long-term financing plan with investments from Spanish and international investors after buying Vodafone Spain for £4.26 billion in May. The refinancing will be used to pay off the initial loans taken to buy Vodafone Spain. This refinancing is expected to be completed by July 17, 2024. The new financing includes:

Buy a new Motorola Edge 50 Ultra, Motorola Edge 50 Pro, or Motorola Edge 50 Fusion smartphone and you’ll be able to use it in Nheengatu, Kaingang, Cherokee, Kangri, Maori, and Ladin and type in Kuvi (look it up!) The Motorola and Lenovo Foundation have added these languages as part of the 90 or so

SAP chief business officer, Marika Auramo, has left the German business software giant after 24 years and moved to Vodafone as CEO of Vodafone Business, taking over from interim CEO Giorgio Migliarina. Auramo who has more than 25 years of experience in the global IT industry,  also joins Vodafone’s Executive Committee. At the German internatonal

Three UK is using former hardman footballer Vinnie Jones in a campaign with Chelsea F.C. and Samaritans to address mens’ mental health issues In an online video, Jones talks abouth is own mental health issues with Chelsea players Cole Palmer, Nicolas Jackson, Robert Sanchez and Alfie Gilchrist and encourages them to ‘talk more’. Jones said: “I

The proposed merger of Vodafone  and Three deal could leave consumers and businesses worse off,  lead to higher prices for customers and affect investment in UK mobile networks says the Competition and Markets Authority  The CMA has ruled the merger now requires further investigation with a six-month probe run by a panel of outside experts.

Lyca Mobile has appointed Lawrence Corbett (main pic left) as the new Group Chief Operating Officer and James McQuillan as the UK and Ireland Country Manager. Their arrival follows the appointment of Richard Schafer as Group CEO last June. “We are poised to challenge established operators. Lawrence and James, with their impressive backgrounds, are invaluable

Ruggedised handset company Bullitt Group is set to go into voluntary administration according to a report in the Telegraph. The Telegraph reported that Bullitt’s satellite connectivity business and 100 employees would be transferred to a new company owned by its creditors. A source close to the company told Mobile News that it was not surprising

Nokia is selling its Device Management and Service Management Platform businesses to Lumine Group for £160 million.

Nokia and BT Group have teamed up to build an ecosystem of developers to improve 5G monetisation.

Virgin Media O2 has bolstered 4G coverage in Skegness by installing small cells on streetlights, in collaboration with its technology partner Ontix. Skegness draws approximately two million holiday visitors annually. Virgin Media O2 collaborated with Ontix and Lincolnshire County Council to pilot small cells, aiming for a cost-effective and adaptable approach to enhancing capacity—a tactic

Phones 4U (In Administration) has lost its case against the mobile networks iin which it accused them of colluding to shut the retailer down in 2014. 

Ericsson has slashed £2.4 billion off the book value of Vonage, the American cloud communications provider it bought for £5 billion in 2022.

IT products and services distributor TD Synnex has promoted Simon Bennett, Senior Director of Enterprise Software and Cloud for the UK and Ireland to Managing Director of Advanced Solutions for the same region. Matt Child, (main pic) the current head of Advanced Solutions, becomes Senior Vice President of Digital for Europe, taking over from Andy

Cashless payment systems are unfit for purpose without a reliable mobile phone signal writes Stuart Waine of Spry Fox Networks 

EE has boosted 4G coverage in the southern Lake District following the upgrade of two masts. 

The head of Commercial for EE Bridget Lea has been appointed general manager of Snap, the parent company of Snapchat,

A £40 million fund for local and regional authorities to accelerate 5G innovation and pioneer digital connectivity for residents and business is now open for applications,

The famous London Olympia exhibition venue is getting 5G coverage as part of the venue’s £1.3bn regeneration. The installation is by BAI Communications (BAI), the shared infrastructure provider that brought 4G cellular coverage to London Underground. BAI is the official distributed antenna system partner for Olympia and will build the infrastructure that will enable 5G

Rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB), Ericsson, O2 Telefónica, and Vantage Towers are collaborating to develop 5G coverage along train tracks in Germany. The project, called Gigabit Innovation Track (GINT), has received € 6.4 million funding from the German government to provide high-speed data and phone connections to train passengers from all rail operations. A test

Virgin Media O2 is to build or upgrade30 masts in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, as part of the Shared Rural Network program.

Hungary airline Wizz Air has partnered with eSIM Go to allow Wizz Air passengers to buy and activate eSIMS to access mobile data services in more than 150 countries

Virgin Media O2 has commissioned its 50th site as part of the £1 billion  Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme.

The West Midlands Combined Authority is the best-connected region for 5G according to a mobile coverage study from telecoms analyst Umlaut. The report analyses 5G coverage across the UK’s Combined Authority areas and shows two-thirds of locations in the region can get 5G from at least one network operator. This is 300 per cent coverage

Money will help expand 5G mobile coverage across Italy by the end of 2025

Misplaced loyalty means many consumers are willing to pay more to be on a top-tier mobile network rather than a lesser-known MVNO.

EE has expanded its mobile network to another 1,500 remote communities including Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The upgrades are part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN), a £1 billion joint initiative between mobile network operators and the UK Government to extend 4G connectivity to 95 per cent of the UK’s geography by the

  Virgin Media O2 has begun a £2 million three-year strategic partnership with Good Things Foundation, to help disadvantaged people across the UK get online and gain vital digital skills. Earlier this month, Virgin Media O2 announced that it is enabling more people than ever to sign up for its social broadband tariffs, Essential Broadband and Essential Broadband

EE will be able to extend 4G connectivity to the remotest area over a satellite link

Colin Abrey VP, Sales UK&I Channel and MEA of Nextivity explains why Wi-Fi only networks do not provide all the connectivity options needed to be compliant with the latest PSD2 regulations

Uninterrupted mobile coverage isn’t just a nice to have for hotel guests, it’s the underpinning enabler to the smooth running of digitised hotel services says Colin Abrey of Nextivity

Funds will be offered to organisations that can show innovative ways to improve e-waste collections and recycling

The ‘Faces of Disconnection’ photo series is released as Vodafone reach the milestone of donating connectivity to one million people living in digital exclusion

The package is available to new and existing small business customers or SoHo business customers with 1-9 employees

With work forces moving to a more hybrid pattern, Andrew Rowley, Partnerships Director at Radius Connect, explains how Enterprise Mobility Management maintains security for business

Stuart Waine of Spry Fox Networks explains the key role of seamless mobile connectivity in climate change initiatives and carbon reduction strategies

BT has collaborated with ServiceNow and Dynatrace for a better management of services, with the latter now being BT’s sole provider of full stack observability across its entire estate

Neos Networks’ new Managed Dedicated Internet Access is said to provide improved visibility to feed insights and analytics, support network maintenance and assure continuous high service availability

Football fans in the UK are prepared to pay for a 5G mobile data package in order to virtually watch the World Cup in a stadium.

Executives complain of not getting customer metrics data quickly enough says Sagacity survey

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

All Community Fibre broadband packages come with free installation and a free Linksys router

Shane Kelly previously spent six years at Dixons Carphone

Davison joins from Tech Data where he worked for 18 years

Customers of all four MNOs will be able to use 4G and 5G mobile coverage on the London Underground by 2024

Wembley is the first UK stadium to have a 5G solution dedicated to just the pitch

Nottingham suffered the worst of the outages by spending the most time offline and losing 9.2 million hours of broadband annually

The operator also claims to have the fastest 5G network in the UK

Ex-Vodafone chief strategy officer Lloyd has specialist experience across the wireless and technology sectors spanning 20-years

In recent years, mobile insurance provider Assurant has turned its attention to device lifecycle management. With the ethos of offering a full service, it is also ramping up its operations with a robot fleet and new tech

Small cells help provide improved, discreet coverage for customers at street level, and are often located on existing street assets as part of EE’s investment to maintain the UK’s best network

The white-label approach to all alerts and emails allows reseller partners the chance to send alerts directly to the customer chain

Vodafone has made a commitment to reuse, resell or recycle 100 per cent of its network waste by 2025 and eliminate its carbon footprint from all sources by 2040

New customers can also get exclusive access to Apple Fitness+ on an Apple Watch plan for an additional £7 per month for 24 months, saving up to £72.

With their innovation and resilience, MVNOs are perfectly placed to make the most of the digital transformation, says Lyca Group CEO Navanit Narayan

CCS Insight looked at the future of mobile, revealing its latest predictions for the years ahead

Samsung still leads the way overall with 23pc share, followed by Apple (15pc)

Holmes has been with Abzorb since 2011

With data demand higher than ever, the need for ample storage is more important than ever, says Western Digital EMEA sales director Christophe Vaissade 

Prices of chips expected to remain expensive up to and including Christmas 

There’s no time like the present for eSIM adoption, enabling greater flexibility for consumers when roaming, and cost and revenue benefits for operators says Mobilise founder and CEO Hamish White

Benefits will be available to all O2 Business partners

NB-IoT offers numerous benefits over utilising mobile networks

COVID-19 has boosted the popularity of smartwatches, as people place an increasing focus on health

Plan will close out “partial not spots”

5G services will also be introduced at a later date

New units will roll out across cities later this year

Apple PC shipments grew 127pc during Q1, according to Canalys figures

Operator says the pandemic has highlighted a greater need for SMEs to have an online presence

Data speeds increased at busiest stations in the capital

It can infiltrate both Android and iOS devices

EE is investing heavily to reduce ‘partial not spots’ by 2024

All three will start with immediate effect

The IoT provider added 75 new channel partners last year and recently hit the 300 partners milestone

London, Birmingham, and Manchester are the top three cities for 5G usage

Plymouth-based firm recently moved into a bigger warehouse 

There’s a growing desire from consumers to buy refurbished models, so now is the perfect time to recycle old unused handsets, says Paula Hansson, general manager at Bamboo Distribution  

There’s a growing desire from consumers to buy refurbished models, so now is the perfect time to recycle old unused handsets, says Paula Hansson, general manager at Bamboo Distribution  

Boutibonnes responsible for establishing EMEA sales footprint

The additional data is available until July 2021

It comes as school’s close across England from today (January 5)

Rise of CPaaS services will fuel growth, but SMS still more popular

Panasonic has also partnered with French and German charities

In the most recent financial year Frontier announced turnover of £3.5 million 

Bristol experienced the most amount of time with outages across the UK

The data from Esendex found that 40 per cent of businesses’ surveyed have moved to remote working since the lockdown

Majority of reported issues are from those living in the North East of England

First steps taken after agreement reached in March to provide coverage

Discount on offer for pre-existing mobile policy holders

A slower start to the 5G era allows for new opportunities to shore up defences, says Radware carrier services VP Mike O’Malley

Project will culminate with 5G in Newcastle Central Station by summer 2021

Checker covers 2G, 3G, and 4G for all networks

‘The Great British Tech Appeal’ will run for six weeks to help disadvantaged young people during the coronavirus

Nearly half of respondents have sought to make network resilience a top priority 

O2 Head of Strategic Clients Darren Buttrick was given 15 minutes to call family before coma anaesthetic

The lockdown has seen families make the most out of their broadband 

“Senior Vodafone business manager” revealed as Luton pastor

The average household has seen streaming usage double to 17 hours a week

Truphone claims to have provisioned over four million eSIM profiles worldwide