Bank customers who pay cheques into their accounts will soon be able to get the money cleared within one working day.

Plusnet, a BT owned company, has today been fined £880,000 by Ofcom for continuing to bill more than a thousand ex-customers.

Ofcom is today proposing to require providers to pay automatic compensation – either a cash payment, or a credit on a bill – to customers who suffer from these kinds of poor service.

The UK has announced a cabin baggage ban on laptops on passenger flights from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.

UK telecoms giant Vodafone has merged its Indian business with Idea Cellular, India's third-largest network, to create the country's largest operator.

A man was electrocuted as he charged his mobile phone while in the bath, an inquest has heard.

Recent increases in line rental charges have hit elderly people the hardest, according to a recent Ofcom report.

Russia's competition watchdog has found that Apple fixed the prices of certain iPhone models sold in the country.

Smartphones, watches, televisions and fitness trackers could be used to hold people to ransom over personal data, cyber security experts have warned.