EE - the mobile network run by Everything Everywhere Ltd - and research company Ipsos MORI have both defended their privacy policies following a Sunday Times report.

The report, which was headlined “Secrets of 27m mobile phones offered to police”, said location data and other information about millions of EE mobile phone customers had been offered for sale to the Metropolitan Police.

US mobile network Verizon Wireless has announced that it’ll pay its owners a $7 billion dividend on 25th June.

The company is jointly owned by Verizon Communications (55%) and Vodafone (45%).

Samsung Electronics says it’s made a breakthrough with plans for a successor to 4G.

It’s developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology that uses millimetre-wave Ka bands for mobile communications. This offers new opportunities for what could become fifth-generation (5G) mobile devices.

Vodafone is launching a new Carrier Services business, combining the carrier businesses of its operating companies with those from Cable & Wireless Worldwide.

This means it already has over a thousand communications service provider customers and partners worldwide.

Mark Bridge writes:

Nokia has had a busy few days. First came the Asha 501, a ‘smartphone lite’ that introduced developers to a new version of the company’s Asha platform. This was followed by the Lumia 928, which is a Windows Phone 8 handset exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the USA. It’s quite like the Nokia 920, so we’re not missing out too much.