It’s reported that investment firm KKR is talking to Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom about a possible takeover of the Everything Everywhere business in the UK.

Tom Alexander, who left his role as Everything Everywhere’s CEO a year ago, is said to be leading the bid.

For many people, the biggest concerns about camping at a music festival involve inclement weather and sub-standard plumbing. However, the last few years have seen Orange reminding us about a third problem: mobile phone charging.

This year Vodafone has introduced its own take on festival gadgetry with the Booster Brolly. It’s a prototype umbrella created in partnership with University College London to keep festivalgoers dry (or protected from the sun) whilst charging their phones.

The Orange San Diego will be the UK’s first phone equipped with the Intel Atom Z2460 processor.

This phone, previously codenamed Santa Clara, will be exclusive to Orange and will launch on 6th June.

Everything Everywhere is investing £50 million to transform customer service for its 27 million T-Mobile and Orange UK users. It’s going to redesign its service operations around handset operating systems and the devices that use them. Overall, £50 million will be invested in contact centres, high-street stores and customer-facing staff this year.

The company says this new approach is designed to meet customers’ changing needs, enabling Orange and T-Mobile staff to offer advice about devices, technology and account information without having to transfer customers between departments.

This week's mobile industry news podcast from The Fonecast takes a gloomy look at HP's job losses, the end of the Cisco Cius tablet and the growth in Android malware - before cheering up with encouraging news from Orange, Yahoo! and Sidecar.

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