That will be £50,000 and a ton of bad publicity

For a while now, at least in Italy, mobile phone companies have believed that they can ring or text you when they like, but now it seems regulators are starting to order them to put the brakes on.

Major shake up for UK comms

Liberty Global and Telefónica have revealed that their respective UK subsidiaries, cable company Virgin Media and mobile operator O2, are to merge in a move which will mean a real shake up for the UK comms industry.