Alex Kinch

Orange have unveiled a new range of pay monthly tariffs – including a £5/month deal – with a whopping 36-month tie-in – that it claims ‘is the ‘lowest price in the market’.

The ‘Where is Payforit Today?’ seminar is tonight (Thursday 21st May) in London – if you haven’t already signed up you’ve still got time to register.

O2’s parent company Telefónica Europe have unveiled their Q1 2009 financial results – with mobile division O2’s UK customer base growing 20% year on year to 20.8m.

An analysis of consumer spending habits has discovered already hard-up Brits are planning to reduce their communications spending even further in the next six months.
According to Booz & Company, a quarter of the 1,800 questioned have already cut back on their communication and media spending, with a further 26% saying they’d trim the bills further [...]

Ethnic-targetted MVNO Lebara has announced a 98% increase in revenues in it’s latest report, with chief executive Yoganathan Ratheesan saying they are “bucking the recession trend”.

Virgin Media’s Q1 2009 results hit the doormat this morning – and amongst all the talk of digital TV and broadband there’s some interesting stats on the performance of their UK mobile division.

Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC Corporation have unveiled their results for the first quarter of 2009 – with earnings dropping by 3.4% year-on-year to NT$ 31,590m (around €722.346m).