Watching the Vodafone quarterly results Webcast this week, a few things fell into place for me. The announcement that Vodafone was to scrap roaming charges in some countries for three months started to make more sense.

Initially, I thought including roaming calls in ordinary bundled minutes was a smart reaction to regulators’ complaints about the cost [...]

On 21 April 2009, UK supermarket chain Tesco confirmed it would increase its Telecoms Centre outlets from 41 to 100 by January 2010. The centres are stand-alone departments within larger Tesco stores. They provide advice for the mobile buyer and process mobile contract subscriptions.

The decision to create about 60 more outlets is noteworthy, although the [...]