Not all good news...
Mark Bridge writes:
The UK is beginning its week with news of a long-awaited sporting victory for Andy Murray. The telecoms world had its own much-anticipated good news last week, when European roaming rates fell again. And regardless of Neelie Kroes’ plans to abolish roaming rates completely, there’ll definitely be another roaming cut in 2014.
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HTC Corporation has announced unaudited results for the second quarter of 2013.
Total revenue for Q2 2013 was NT$70.7 billion (£1.6 billion), while net income after tax was NT$1.25 billion (£27.8 million).
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Two former department heads at HTC UK are setting up their own mobile phone company.
Michael Coombes, who’d been head of HTC’s UK sales, and James Atkins, the former head of UK marketing for HTC, are behind a company called Kazam. It’s expected to launch a range of smartphones later this year.
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Podcast - 29th May 2013
This week's podcast begins with a report about a delay - or perhaps even cancellation - for the UK launch of HTC's Facebook phone, the HTC First.
We then move on to Vodafone's results, an Android app scare for Sky, Samsung's successes, contactless payments, potentially life-saving QR codes and an uncomfortable story about a smuggled mobile phone.
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The HTC First smartphone, which is embedded with the Facebook Home application, looks unlikely to be seen in the UK.
There are also reports that sales of the device in the USA are being discontinued by the AT&T network.
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