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Huawei Australia has appointed Paul Jowett as Huawei Consumer Business Group's director of marketing.

ZipTel has appointed a former mobile industry senior executive as head of sales and distribution to lead the expansion of the company’s sales and distribution channels for its international pre-paid travel sim card, AussieSim.

As always, the show must go on, with embattled telco Vodafone Australia opening up pre-orders for Samsung's newest hit smartphone: the Galaxy S II.

If there's a list of 'best telco rants', the Vodafail musical tribute that features Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' track has got to be a contender for one of the best!

It's the day before the official iPhone 4 launch in Australia, with Telstra promoting its MasterChefs and serving up apple-related food, Vodafone and 3 partying it up at the Ivy, Optus pop starring it up with Kelly Rowland and Virgin Mobile getting Branson in on the act.

Potentially feeling the heat from questions over network performance, something Optus has stridently defended in an email to iTWire earlier today, Optus has decided to up its iPhone offering by being the first Aussie telco to confirm each iPhone 4 customer will get a free bumper - if they want one.

To Optus or not to Optus with your iPhone 4? With concerns by some that Optus had become Droptus and Dialuptus, an Optus spokesperson has stridently defended its network, promising to send me a micro SIM to test it out for myself, which I'll be very keen to do against Telstra, Vodafone and 3 Mobile. Is the force with Optus?