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UK competition regulator the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given the green light for the merger of mobile operators Vodafone UK and Three.

A British parliamentary committee has found that the process of selecting vendors to supply 5G gear for the country's networks has delayed the rollout and made it more expensive due to the ban on equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

The British Government says it will pump £1.6 million (A$2.9 million) into Japanese firm NEC to support a project to develop an open radio access network for 5G.

The management of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies have requested a meeting with an aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as news emerges that the company's gear will be removed from the UK's 5G networks by the end of 2025.

The British Government will reportedly set a deadline of 2025 for the removal of gear made by Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from its 5G networks, a newspaper claims as reported by Reuters.

The roster of disreputable organisations and individuals that have been associated with Chinese telecommunications equipment provider Huawei Technologies by Western sources to blacken its name never ceases to surprise. But the latest connection takes the cake: there are claims that former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, of Donald Trump fame, helped craft a report that accused Huawei and China's government of trying to manipulate British peers and MPs.

The use of equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies in British 5G networks will be phased out from this year onwards, a report claims.

A plan by Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies to build a £400 million (A$722 million) research and development centre close to Cambridge in the UK is causing some disquiet, The Times claims.

British telco O2 has decided to expand its use of equipment from Swedish firm Ericsson to upgrade its 5G network.

UK telecommunications services provider BT Group’s restructuring and cost-cutting is a means to drive sustainable long-term growth and to reverse the downward trend in earnings, according to data and analytics company GlobalData.

The integration of the Vodafone and 3 businesses continues with the opening of 3's service centres to Vodafone customers.

Internode has again topped a customer satisfaction survey run by Roy Morgan Research. The company also performed very strongly in a poll carried out by one of Australia's major PC magazines.

Vodafone is promising its customers improved network performance as a result of an upgrade to its 3G network.

VHA  has raised the bar in the increasingly price-competitive mobile services market by significantly increasing the amount of data included in its mobile phone cap plans.

The ACMA has extracted enforceable undertakings from Optus following Optus' inability to meet the 1 July 2010 deadline to have in place a system that would enable its mobile customers to request barring of premium SMS messages.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has dropped the price of its Vodafone branded USB modem based prepaid mobile broadband starter pack from $79 to $49 and has introduced its first pocket 3G WiFi modem.

Vodafone and 3 are holding a private party for buyers ahead of tonight's midnight launch of the iPhone 4. But if you're not in Sydney, tough luck.

Now that all the carriers have released their iPhone plans it's time to look at them and work out where the best bang for buck lies. We look at the best plan for light, moderate and heavy data users.

Even Australians with no particular interest in cycling seem drawn to the Tour de France, and Vodafone Hutchinson Australia is tapping this interest by delivering "exclusive" content.

New voice contracts on 3 will include free access to major social networking sites.