Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale are working together to test 4G Long Term Evolution mobile broadband as an alternative to fixed-line broadband in rural areas.

A field trial will start from September, involving up to 100 mobile and 100 fixed-line customers living around the St Newlyn East area of Newquay. This is expected to be the UK’s first customer trial of 4G LTE high-speed broadband.

Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei Technologies has been awarded a four-year contract to upgrade the Orange and T-Mobile networks operated by Everything Everywhere.

The work will improve reception, expand HD voice calling and will also prepare for a move to 4G LTE technology.

Mark Mitchinson, former vice president of mobile at Samsung UK & Ireland, has left The Carphone Warehouse after five months as group managing director of business, wholesale and distribution.

He’s now executive UK and Ireland vice president at Huawei, according to a report from Mobile News.

Huawei has filed lawsuits in Germany, France and Hungary against ZTE Corporation for patent and trade mark infringement.

It claims that ZTE is infringing a number of Huawei's patents relating to data card and LTE technologies and also says ZTE has even used a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data card products.

This week's edition of The Fonecast takes its usual look at the latest mobile industry news headlines, covering charity SMS messages, a new purchasing partnership, m-commerce, NFC and international calls.

Plus, with our 250th podcast just a few weeks away, we turn the clock back to 2006... when we discussed the topic of 'voicemail hacking'.