EE has been the United Kingdom’s only 4G provider for around nine months now, but at the end of this month, it’ll finally see some competition. O2 has today announced that its own 4G network will launch on August 29, with prices starting at £26 per month. The service will reach three cities initially, with ten more scheduled to be added by the end of the year.

Vodafone announced some new additions to its PAYG service today, one of which being the new “Vodafone Red Freedom Freebee” bundle, which gives customers unlimited calls and texts.

British retailer Phones 4U has today launched a new Arctic Blue variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4. It’s available on contract only, with prices starting at £37 ($57) per month if you want to pay nothing upfront for the handset itself. The handset also comes with a free Samsung S-View case.

Just over a week ago, Vodafone confirmed that it would be the only U.K. network to carry Huawei’s 6.1-inch phablet, the Ascend Mate, but gave no indication of its release date. As of yesterday, residents in the United Kingdom are now able to pick up the Mate on Vodafone for free on a £29 per month contract, or for a one time payment of £300 on PAYG.

We first saw the Huawei Ascend Mate back at CES 2013, in January with its enormous 6.1 inch screen, at the time one of the largest we had ever seen on a smartphone, and now six months later the device is about to make its way to the U.K. market through the major U.K. carrier, Vodafone, who confirmed that it would be hosting the 6.1-inch phablet in an official blog post on its website yesterday.