To accompany a range of new tariffs, O2 is offering new customers free tethering as a bolt on for monthly contract users.

Most tariffs also offer unlimited free texts and a choice of free call minutes depending on (presumably) the contract length and / or monthly payment term. The choice is 300, 600, 1200 and unlimited call minute

Nokia’s Symbian smartphone, the E7 is on its way to the UK in May. You can get it from O2.

Although Nokia has essentially abandoned Symbian and MeeGo in favour of Windows Phone 7, it is likely nevertheless that you could still see a few new devices using these operating platform

This will be welcome news to O2 subscribers as the network will now be 30% faster.

It is also a break from the previous Ofcom rules which only allowed 2G frequencies to be run over 900MHz.

Are you an O2 Subscriber? Well, unless you are over 18 you will find that in future there will be restrictions on what you can see and do while using the internet.

If you are the sort of person that looks forward to making your life that little bit easier, then there is good news for you. Provided you have a Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled handset and are with O2, then you will be able to make use of it later in the year.

O2 has decided to offer free O2 WiFi, irrespective of the network you are currently using.

You could be forgiven for thinking this is just a gimmick, or perhaps it’s an early April Fools trick, but you will be wrong.

With the VAT increase taking place this week, many mobile phone users will be understandably worried about how it’s going to affect them. With this mind perhaps the following can help.

The end of the year always seems to spark the need to give awards. The mobile phone industry isn’t immune to this.

‘Possibly’ seems to be the conclusion, according to O2.

If you are thinking of getting the latest Google device, it is now available on Orange, O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile networks – but you can only purchase it from Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy.