Three-year deal with Homeserve will see 4,000 connections ported to O2 from Vodafone and Orange
O2 has won a massive corporate account off network rivals Orange and Vodafone.
Emergency insurance and home repairs company Homeserve will port 4,000 connections to O2 from Orange and Vodafone. It is a three year deal for voice and mobile data service, [...]

In a variation on the new math, 2.0 plus 3G equals $30 million now and about $360 million next summer.
Or in plain English: Apple has raked in about $30 million in sales of iPhone applications in the one month since the company opened its App Store and brought the iPhone 3G onto the market, CEO [...]

Carphone staff stand to earn up to 50 per cent more in basic pay if London trial of new commission structure rolls out
Carphone Warehouse has completely overhauled its store staff commission structure.
From October, store managers will no longer receive commission. Instead they will receive a  much improved basic wage and a share of store [...]

“Best trading weekend of the year so far,” thanks to the Apple iPhone on O2, reckons Orange chief Tom Alexander
Orange UK chief exceutive Tom Alexander (pictured) last week thanked O2’s 3G iPhone for improved sales in Orange stores.
He said: “The launch of the iPhone was Orange’s most successful trading weekend of the year so far.
“People [...]

All store managers to receive hike in basic pay, while London stores to trial profit share scheme

The Carphone Warehouse has announced it is overhauling its staff payment structure, with all store managers advised yesterday that from October they will no longer receive commission in lieu of a “significant” pay rise.
The retailer will trial the scheme [...]

The furniture retailer claims that its new pay-as-you-go mobile service for loyal customers is Britain’s cheapest by 25%
Home furnishing retailer Ikea is hoping to make the humble pay-as-you-go (PAYG) mobile SIM as handy as a standard issue Allen key by undercutting the competition by a quarter.
The purveyor of oddly named ranges of flat-pack furniture has [...]

Loss-making handset manufacturer sold to French venture capital firm Sofinnova at cost of 220 million euros to parent company Safran Loss-making French handset manufacturer Sagem has been sold to venture capital firm Sofinnova at an estimated cost of €220 million to parent company Safran.
Safran has agreed to hand Sagem Mobiles to Sofinnova for an expected [...]

Sony Ericsson increases UK market share by five per cent, to 25 per cent, as it gears up for Q4 dogfight for top spot with Nokia Sony Ericsson maintained a 25 per cent UK market share for the fourth week running last week as the global business reported a massive 97 per cent slump in [...]

Parent company Hutchison Whampoa’s European telecoms MD joins call for data roaming price caps 3 has reached the milestone of one million mobile broadband customers in Europe.
Hutchison Whampoa managing director for European telecoms Christian Salbaing said: “This milestone shows people everywhere want to access our mobile broadband services. Since we launched our offers late last [...]

May/June price cuts lead to record June quarter as Apple shifts 717,000 units
Apple posted its best-ever June quarter on the back of a massive surge in first generation iPhone sales.
Apple said it shifted 717,000 first generation iPhones in the quarter ended June 30, compared to just 270,000 in the same period last year.
Combined with related [...]