This year's Vodafone Mobile Clicks contest has been announced at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, with a closing date for entries of 12th June 2011.

Almost any mobile-focussed start-up in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain or Turkey can compete for the €225,000 prize fund. The competition is open to companies that are less than three years old.

Ofcom has published details of the consumer telecoms complaints it's received between October 2010 and February 2011.

The regulator receives an average of 450 complaints per day about fixed-line, broadband and mobile telecoms providers. Issues include mis-selling, billing errors, lack of service and customer service problems.

Mark Bridge writes:

We head into the weekend with the News of the World admitting voicemail hacking was more widespread than previously thought. Mobile networks had already made it much harder to access voicemail remotely… and now the NotW is saying sorry and preparing to pay compensation.

Vodafone has agreed to sell its 44% shareholding in French mobile network operator SFR to Vivendi.

The deal is worth around £6.8 billion, with £4 billion being 'returned' to Vodafone shareholders through a share buy-back. Existing commercial co-operation between Vodafone and SFR will be maintained through a Partner Market agreement.

There won't be mobile phone coverage on the London Underground in time for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It's reported that the issue of funding has caused talks to collapse.

However, plans to roll out WiFi to over 100 tube stations are going ahead.