Everything Everywhere is planning to close a combination of 31 Orange and T-Mobile stores in the UK, replacing them with shops that sell both mobile networks. As a result, 28 retail management roles are expected to be lost, although Everything Everywhere says it’ll be looking to redeploy people where possible.

In addition, a head office reorganisation will see a further 67 retail roles cut. However, the company also says 50 new office-based roles will be created.

Mark Bridge writes:

Mobile financial services were making the headlines yet again last week. Not once. Not twice. No, we noticed at least three separate (and all pretty big) stories to talk about.

First came Nokia’s planned withdrawal from its mobile money service, which will leave around a million people in India looking for a new mobile wallet.

In today’s edition of The Fonecast we’re taking our regular look at all the top mobile industry news stories from the past seven days.

There’s talk about the new Apple iPad, a discussion about Everything Everywhere’s plans for 4G UK coverage, a look at the new Google Play service... and much more.

Ofcom says Everything Everywhere’s proposal to use its existing 1800MHz GSM spectrum to deliver 4G services in the UK is likely to benefit consumers without causing competition to become distorted.

As a result, it’s proposing to give the go-ahead to Everything Everywhere after a four week consultation period.

Everything Everywhere, which runs the Orange and T-Mobile networks in the UK, has announced its plans for introducing 4G LTE coverage to the UK.

It’s currently upgraded over half its UK network to HSPA+, the ‘3.5G’ service that provides up to 50% faster data speeds than standard 3G connections.