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Age UK launches its own mobile phone deal

Age UK, the charity for older people formed from Age Concern and Help the Aged, has teamed up with virtual mobile network CyCell to launch its own mobile phone deal.

The Age UK My Phone is customised when it’s ordered, offering up to eight buttons programmed with the telephone numbers of important contacts. Rather than using numbers, the buttons show each person’s name.

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Virgin Media offers unlimited mobile data on 'pay as you go' tariffs

Virgin Media has created two new ‘pay as you go’ mobile phone tariffs, one with unlimited landline calls and the other with unlimited data and text messages.

It follows the creation of unlimited ‘pay monthly’ Virgin Media deals earlier this year.

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Ovivo Mobile is dropping mobile ads to battle fraudsters

UK virtual network Ovivo Mobile, which launched its ad-funded mobile phone service earlier this year, has admitted it’s had to change its pricing model due to consumer fraud.

In a blog post that was also sent as an email to the MVNO’s customers, Ovivo Mobile CEO Dariush Zand said recent tariff changes were necessary to prevent the company from being jeopardised by a small group of fraudulent users.

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Truphone falls foul of ASA with 'truly global' Tru SIM claim

Truphone, which offers an international mobile phone service with its Tru SIM as well as a mobile VoIP application, has had a complaint against it upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.

Its online claim describing the Tru SIM as saving money “wherever you are in the world” and describing the product as “the truly global SIM” was challenged by a complainant who said the service wasn’t available in some parts of the world.

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New TalkTalk Mobile tariff offers a £5-per-month smartphone

UK telephone and broadband company TalkTalk has launched a new mobile phone service for its customers. These offers, which build on the company’s existing virtual network agreement with Vodafone UK, are only open to consumers who’ve chosen one of the company’s fixed-line services.

TalkTalk Mobile promises handsets that are completely free and tariffs that start from £5 a month.

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