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Vodafone UK connects 100,000 customers to 4G

ExclusiveVodafone UK connects 100,000 customers to 4G

Vodafone UK says it has connected 100,000 customers to its 4G tariffs since they were launched seven weeks ago.

The company currently covers much of the Greater London area with its 4G network, along with Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester are due to be added in the next few weeks.

ExclusiveThe ups and downs of the mobile telecoms industry

In today's podcast: Samsung's profit, UK mobile ad spending and Vertu's smartphone range are all increasing.

Meanwhile HTC's profit and the proportion of children with mobile phones are both going down. Discover the background to these news stories - and plenty more - in our regular weekly broadcast.

Exclusive10,000 jobs to be cut at Alcatel-Lucent

Communications infrastructure business Alcatel-Lucent has revealed plans to cut around 10,000 jobs by the end of 2015. It’s part of a company-wide commitment to save €1 billion in the same period.

These actions, which form part of ‘The Shift Plan’ announced in June by new CEO Michel Combes, are designed to reposition Alcatel-Lucent as a ‘next generation’ technology specialist and return it to profit.

ExclusiveUK mobile ad spending up 127% from last year

The amount of money spent on mobile-based advertising in the UK grew by 127% year-on-year to £429.2 million in the first half of 2013.

It means that 14.1% of all digital advertising spend is now targeted at mobile devices, which is nearly double the same period last year.

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