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April
Lebanese government says visitors’ mobile phones won’t work unless they are registered at the airport on arrival
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Canadian operator spends $200m on buying six-month-old Blackiron Data from Primus Telecoms to expand data and cloud
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Turkish operator Turkcell expands m-payment system for public transport in city of Sanliurfa
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Vodafone in link with ICICI Bank to offer mobile money to 700m unbanked people in India
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European Commission clears cable operator Liberty Global’s planned €17 billion takeover of the UK’s Virgin Media
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The former Qtel plans to cover all Qatar’s towns and roads by end of 2014 with LTE service
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March
Novsoibirsk sees the region’s first SIM-based NFC payment system across public transport network
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Globe Telecom of the Philippines and South Korean operator to launch LTE roaming in April
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With a substantial investment by Roman Abramovich, Truphone is upgrading its infrastructure and plans to develop its services to the multinational corporate market. CEO Steve Robertson talks to Alan Burkitt-Gray
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February
Ooredoo — formerly Qtel — to work with Samsung on mobile internet services for young people
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Research claims number of mobile money transactions now exceeding PayPal transactions, says GSMA
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Lee Suk-Chae tells Mobile World Congress that telcos must now become virtual goods distributors like Apple’s app store
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Huawei in plan with UK broadcaster to use LTE to transmit television programmes to mobiles
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CEO Hans Vestberg announces Ericsson and SAP will offer M2M enterprise products and services to operators
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Huawei says it shipped 32m smartphones in 2012, missing 60m target set at MWC last year
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'Transient roamers' using wifi and buying local SIMs are spending $17m on alternative means of connection, claims Syniverse CEO
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Deutsche Telekom offers €500,000 to develop winning ideas into products in five areas
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BT back in UK wireless after 10 years as it is one of five winners of Ofcom spectrum auction
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Customers of Turkcell’s broadband unit can increase speed to 100 megabits for 24 hours by text message
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South Korean operator says 1m users for GSMA-backed service 50 days after launch
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VimpelCom says customers will be able to use their mobile accounts to buy Windows Phone apps, games and music in Nokia deal
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GSM Association opens public Barcelona exhibition centre for mobile applications, a week ahead of MWC show
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January
Etisalat and Dubai’s Pacific Controls to expand machine-to-machine applications for sustainable development
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Juniper Research shows Samsung made 30% of all smartphones sold in the last quarter of 2012
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Five operators in Taiwan form joint company with smartcard company to manage use of mobiles for payment and identification
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France Telecom-Deutsche Telekom JV signs retailer Phones 4u to provide LTE services on MVNO
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Telefónica Digital allies with Bango in global deal to allow 300m customers to pay by mobile
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Gemalto sells M2M application to detect illegal deforestation in Brazilian rain forest
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Saudi regulator plans to licence three companies to become mobile virtual network operators
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France Telecom Orange’s Mobinil is first to launch browser from China’s Baidu in exclusive deal for Africa
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French operator to bundle free calls to mobiles in France’s overseas possessions
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China Telecom awards contract to create cloud desktop systems for cloud computing services