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Competition Appeal Tribunal favours BT in mobile termination rate ruling

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has upheld BT's appeal against Ofcom's ruling that call termination charges for 'non geographic' numbers couldn't be increased.

As a result, BT can now claim higher payments from the UK's mobile networks when connecting calls to 0845, 0870 and 0800 numbers.

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ZTE ships 35 million mobiles in the first half of 2011

ZTE Corporation says it's shipped 35 million mobile handsets in the first half of 2011, around a 30% year-on-year increase globally. Sales in Europe have increased by a similar percentage.

Worldwide sales of smart devices were up 400% year-on-year to 5 million units, thanks to the ZTE Blade becoming one of the world’s top-selling smartphones.

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HTC acquires Dashwire to enhance cloud-based services

HTC Corporation has acquired Dashwire, a US-based company that makes the 'Dashworks' platform to help users set up their smartphones and access mobile content across multiple devices.

Dashwire will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of HTC.

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Podcast - 12th August 2011

A few years ago, VoIP – the ability to make calls over the internet - promised to change the way mobile phones were used. Tanveer Sharif, CEO and co-founder of international call service Vopium, joins us this week to talk about the subject.

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Orange Wednesdays are joined by 'free film' Thursdays

Orange UK, which currently offers its customers an 'Orange Wednesdays' two-for-one cinema ticket promotion, is introducing a new loyalty scheme called Orange Film To Go. It's available to all Orange UK mobile phone and broadband customers.

Every Thursday, customers will be offered a free film to download from iTunes. The film can then be watched on a laptop, Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

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