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Vodafone enters UK iPhone market - 29th Sep The announcement follows news that network operator Orange had secured a similar agreement with Apple. The deals mark an end to the exclusive UK arrangement between O2 and the US technology firm, which has been in place since 2007. Vodafone says users can register an interest online, with the handsets becoming available to customers from early 2010. Orange said its customers would be able to buy the phone "later this year" but did not specify a date or pricing. Vodafone is one of the biggest mobile operators in the world with an estimated 300 million customers world wide, making it the second largest carrier after China Mobile. The agreement sees both Orange and Vodafone selling both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.

Free View viewers face set retune - 29th Sep An upgrade on 30 September means 18m homes must retune their Freeview set-top boxes or lose access to chanel FiveMore than 18 million homes will be affected. The move mainly aims to give more viewers access to Channel Five. However, those who have Channel Five at the moment will be unable to watch it until they have retuned. ITV3, ITV4 and some BBC radio stations will also be affected. About 460,000 households are expected to permanently lose access to ITV3 and ITV4. The technical changes behind the upgrade will eventually enable High Definition (HD) television to be broadcast on Freeview. HD is already available on the free-to-view satellite service Freesat.

T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger - 8th Sep T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers.span lang="en-gb"> If completed, a deal between Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Orange owner France Telecom would see a firm with sales of 9.4bn euros (£8.2bn; $13.5bn). It would be the UK's Largest provider, overtaking Telefonica's O2, with about 37% of the mobile market.

End in site for Yugoslav domains Websites using the .yu domain extension will cease to be available online from 30 September. The extension - assigned to the former Republic of Yugoslavia - has been replaced by .rs (for Serbia) and .me (for Montenegro). Icann - which oversees the assigning of top-level domain names - allowed extra time for sites to make the transition before removing the .yu extension. It is thought up to 4,000 websites have still not migrated to a new domain. However, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names has requested a postponement of several months; The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is meeting to consider the request.

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