easyMobile, the discount mobile phone company supported by Stelios Haji-Ioannou (who created easyJet), is to launch its services in partnership with T-Mobile next March.
A man has been arrested after firing mobile phones into a Swedish prison using a bow and arrows. He has been charged with planning to aid a prison escape.
The Japanese i-mode mobile phone system will be launched in the UK by mmO2, the parent company of UK network O2. i-mode, which has 42 million users in Japan, offers a wide range of multimedia services.
Virgin Mobile to help 'drunken callers' in Australia
Virgin Mobile's Australian operation has created a new service that promises to prevent embarrassing drunken phone calls. The service works by temporarily 'blacklisting' a number until the following morning. This contrasts with the company's April Fool joke about a breathalyser phone in 2003.