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A number of operators have announced support for devices powered by RIM’s anticipated BlackBerry 10 platform, which are expected to be available from the first quarter of 2013.

UK market-leader EE is ramping up its 4G rollout, promising to switch on the new network in a further 17 towns and cities in Q1 next year.

Five UK operators have signed-up to take part in the country’s upcoming 4G auctions, reports the Financial Times.

The UK Treasury hopes to raise £3. 5 billion from the auction of 4G spectrum licences early next year, chancellor George Osborne said in his autumn budget statement yesterday.

A new MVNO has launched in the UK that is touting itself as an ethical alternative to the main mobile networks by pledging to give 25 percent of its profits to charity.

3 UK, the country’s smallest operator, has pledged to build-out dual-carrier HSPA to half of the UK population by year-end and 80 percent by next April – mounting a challenge to EE’s roll-out of the country’s first 4G network.

The good people at EE yesterday let me visit one of their new flagship retail stores in London, a day prior to both the shop and the UK operator’s new 4G-LTE network opening to the general public.