Telecoms
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BT Mobile now selling pay monthly smartphone tariffs and supporting tethering
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Launched last year as a SIM-only service, BT Mobile has more than 300,000 subscribers, the majority of who are understood to be broadband customers adding mobile to their BT bill.
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Vodafone customers can now charge Google Play Store purchases to mobile bills
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To help push its ‘Charge to Bill’ service, Vodafone is also offering customers discounts of 90% on a number popular apps and games until October 2016.
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BT’s rivals renew calls for “legally separate” Openreach
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A coalition of telecoms firms and trade groups, including Sky, TalkTalk, and Vodafone, has renewed calls for BT’s Openreach network business to be hived off into a “legally separate company”.
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EE adds new ‘premium quality but low priced’ tablet to own label range
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Running Android 5.1 Lollipop, the Jay features a Quad-core 1.0GHz 64-Bit processor, 5MP rear-facing camera with built-in auto-focus, a 2MP front-facing camera and 4G connectivity.
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Three/O2 merger blocked by European competition authorities
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Plans to merge the two networks were announced last January in response to the news that BT was to buy EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator. The phone and broadband giant had been in talks with the owners of both EE and O2 before ultimately deciding to pursue EE.
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EE to create 600 new jobs in bid to boost service levels
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The move means all of EE’s customer calls are answered in the UK and Ireland by the end of the year and mirrors a commitment by parent company BT to ‘on-shore’ hundreds of new jobs.