Telecompaper) Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei has won a contract at Net4Mobility, the joint venture of Tele2 and Telenor. Under the terms of the agreement, Huawei will supply Tele2 and Telenor with infrastructure and modems for the development of a

Telecompaper) Asutralian operator Telstra cut its sales outlook for 2010, citing difficult markets at home and in Hong Kong. Following a difficult second half of its fiscal year 2009, the company said FY 2010 revenues would be "flattish" compared to

Telecompaper) The number of active mobile virtual operators in the Netherlands at the end of Q3 was down by two compared to Q1, to a total 47. The virtual operators had 3.1 million customers at the end of September, up

Telecompaper) French telecommunications regulator Arcep has awarded Free Mobile a 3G mobile network licence. Free Mobile, a subsidiary of broadband group Iliad, was the only candidate for the 5 MHz licence in the 2.1GHz band in a procedure launched on

Telecompaper) Telefonica has set up a client division for its Spain operations. The newly-created department will be led by Fernando Herrera, who previously served as head of Telefonica's residential customer division. Federico Rava, currently CEO of Telefonica Moviles Argentina, will

Telecompaper) Research In Motion shipped 10.1 million of its BlackBerry smartphones in its fiscal third quarter to end-November, well ahead of the 6.7 million in the year-earlier period and better than the 8.3 million in fiscal Q2. The latest quarter

Telecompaper) Palm shipped a total 783,000 smartphones in its fiscal second quarter to end-November, up 41 percent from a year earlier but down 5 percent from fiscal Q1. Smartphone sell-through for the second quarter was 573,000 units, down 4 percent

Telecompaper) Croatian operator T-HT has revamped its management board. The changes will come into effect at the beginning of 2010, following the merger of T-Mobile Croatia and HT-Hrvatske Telekomunikacije. Whereas the current organization is based on technology, the new internal

Telecompaper) Wireless broadband internet deployments based upon Wimax have reached 519 in 146 countries, including 95 Wimax networks deployed by 2G mobile operators, in spite of the financial downturn which has impacted telecommunication investments. Of the 519 Wimax deployments, 112

Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom has announced that its Chief Product and Innovation Officer, Christopher Schlaeffer, will leave the company on 31 March 2010. He is leaving at his own request to pursue fresh challenges. His role as Chief Product and Innovation

Telecompaper) Ericsson has demonstrated an HSPA technology achieving 42Mbps download speeds in a test in Stockholm. The HSPA Evolution dual carrier technology can be implemented with a software upgrade and doubles the speed of HSPA networks for users everywhere in

Telecompaper) Slovak alternative operator Swan is starting prepaid mobile services under its own brand, in partnership with Telefonica O2 Slovakia. Swan Mobile will offer customers calls to the O2 network and all Slovak fixed networks at EUR 0.06 per minute

Telecompaper) Online personalised radio service Pandora Media has topped 40 million registered users in early December. On track to hit a new milestone later this month achieving 600,000 new registered users a week, 300,000 of whom are mobile, Pandora has

Telecompaper) The US Federal Trade Commission is suing Intel for abuse of its dominant market position. The FTC alleges that Intel has "waged a systematic campaign to shut out rivals' competing microchips by cutting off their access to the marketplace".

Telecompaper) S Tel, a joint venture of Bahrain operator Batleco and the Chennai-based Siva Group, has officially launched its mobile services in Himachal Pradesh and in the next ten days will start in Bihar and Orissa. Group CEO Peter Kaliaropoulos

Telecompaper) Telecom Italia (TI) has launched an all-in-one multimedia broadband device. Dubbed 'CuboVision,', it provides home TV access to digital terrestrial TV channels, web TV and pay-per-view films and allows users to organise personal content such as photos, videos and

Telecompaper) India ended November with 366.77 million GSM mobile subscribers, up from 355.69 million in October, according to figures from the industry association COAI. In total, India's GSM mobile subscribers grew by 11.08 million. Bharti Airtel remained market leader with

Telecompaper) China Unicom has selected Huawei's femtocell product for its "3G Inn" service that allows subscribers to enjoy an enhanced indoors 3G experience, with faster internet download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps. Huawei's femtocell product is a portable wireless

Telecompaper) Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel has sought the regulator's approval to buy a 70 percent stake in Bangladeshi mobile operator Warid, Zia Ahmed, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission told the Daily Star. The value of the contract

Telecompaper) Yota de Nicaragua, the local subsidiary of Russian state-owned corporation Rostejnologuii, has completed its Wimax network deployment. Yota, in partnership with Samsung Electronics, has also rolled out a mobile Wimax pilot in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. The operator