BT has signed a ten-year deal with O2's parent company Telefonica to help create the network's UK 4G service, with BT building a new "high capacity transmission network" to ensure we can all refresh Twitter as many times per minute as we want. Read More >>

Buoyed by its purchase of a decent £200 million chunk of 4G spectrum, BT's looking to get back in the mobile game, despite previously saying it had no intention of going mobile again. It's looking for a partner to leverage BT Mobile. It's like BT Cellnet all over again. Read More >>

The new O2 Refresh contract option from the mobile network sees it offer customers a separate contract for their calling plan and mobile phone, making it less of a fiddle to switch handsets mid-contract. Read More >>

Good news if you're on O2. The network's just announced a deal with Virgin to give its customers free Wi-Fi access on London Underground, just like Vodafone and EE, from June. That will leave just Three and the MVNOs out of the free Tube Wi-Fi party. [Virgin] Read More >>

It's not just the Pirate Bay that's feeling the sting of High Court-infused blocking orders. Three more torrent sites, KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy, have been given the special treatment thanks to the BPI, just like TPB, with BT, Virgin, O2 and Be already blocking them off the face of the UK internet. Read More >>

Sky's just made a massive power-play for the UK's broadband market. Not content with being a middling player, it's just bought both O2 and BE Broadband, propelling it into second place in the UK broadband rankings, with 4.7 million subscribers, and leapfrogging Virgin Media. Read More >>

Pretty much everything's a cross-platform app these days, with one exception: phone calls and texts, which are still (irritatingly) bound to this stupid handset thing. Finally, though, one network is pulling its head out of the sand and doing something about it, with an awesome app that lets you make proper phone calls from pretty much anything with an internet connection. Read More >>

Yes, this is it folks. The auction's over after 50 rounds of bidding, and now the networks have up until midnight tonight to fork out the collective £2.3 billion odd in cash. But who won what, and how much? Seems Vodafone was on a full-on 4G crusade. Read More >>

Sporadic reports have been complaining of crossed lines on the O2 network, with the people of Birmingham apparently getting routed into and able to eavesdrop on the odd Scottish call. Read More >>

Hooray, the official UK 4G auction bidding war is finally underway. Bidders are now free to throw their cash at Ofcom, using what basically sounds like Ofcom's own version of a top-secret eBay. Read More >>

Hilarious observational comedian Michael McIntyre has been proved right by O2 and HTC's decision to offer the HTC One X+ without a charger in the box. No one wants another charger. We have reached mobile phone charger saturation point. The kitchen drawers of the nation are indeed heaving with cables and plugs, as was foretold by the chubby funnyman. Read More >>

Ofcom's released the names of the companies who are all-in, bidding for the UK 4G spectrum allocation, and there's not four, but seven of them. The usual suspects are all there, of course -- Vodafone, Three, O2 and EE -- but then we've got some surprise contenders. BT for one, another Hong Kong-based phone network, and some chaps from Buckinghamshire. This just got interesting. Read More >>

Network O2 has decided it's time to start whacking up its monthly contract costs, with the UK mobile provider adding 3.2 per cent to all monthly tariffs from next February. Regardless of what you signed up for. Read More >>

So, we finally have a set-in-stone date for the sweet, soothing rays of competitively-priced 4G to hit our shores. The telecoms regulator Ofcom has published the rules for the 4G spectrum auction, giving a timeline for when licenses will be given, and letting us know whenabouts that switch will finally be flipped. Read More >>

We have good news and bad news. The good news is you won't have to wait long to get your grubby little mitts on the new hotness, the Nexus 4, out of Google. It'll be in O2 stores on November 13th free from £36 a month. The bad news is that if you want it on any other network, SIM-free is the only option at least for a month. Read More >>