Mobile phone operators Vodafone and O2 are understood to be locked in a £3.5bn (€4bn) bid battle for rival T-Mobile UK, it was reported today.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone today said it lost 46,000 Irish mobile customers in the three months to the end of June.

A takeover move from FirstGroup for rival National Express sent transport shares higher on the London market today.

Vodafone is considering a bid to buy T-Mobile UK in a deal that would create Britain’s biggest mobile phone operator, it was reported today.

Two of Britain’s biggest mobile phone operators today announced a deal to share their “third generation” mast network.

UK mobile phone operator T-Mobile today posted rising revenues as more customers signed up to its contract services.

METEOR has abolished all charges to receive calls for pre-pay customers while roaming in the Northern Ireland and Britain.

Mobile phone operator Meteor today officially announced that it is to abolish all roaming charges for pre-pay customers while receiving calls in the North and the UK.

Charges levelled at Deutsche Telekom AG for allegedly overstating the value of its real estate assets on its balance sheets and in the company's prospectuses for its IPO and subsequent listings remain under investigation by the Bonn public prosecutor, the prosecutor has said.