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March
The Brazilian government wants Telebrás to manage a programme to build a national fibre network to improve broadband access
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South Korean smartphone maker LG has launched its first Android phone in its home market and is expected to have 10 on offer this year
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Belgium is offering a fourth licence for 3G services and is expected to follow with licences for LTE and WiMax capacity
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China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, is setting up a Taiwanese subsidiary, but it will not be allowed to invest in local telecoms operators
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper are working together to offer security systems for fixed and mobile networks
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Sony head Howard Stringer is reported to be planning to launch a smartphone to challenge Apple’s iPhone
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Vivendi is hoping to secure mobile frequency spectrum for its new Brazilian acquisition, GVT
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Belgian cable operator Telenet plans to invest in LTE technology for its own mobile network
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The European Commission has started a public consultation on updating the EU’s law on whether broadband should be included in universal access rules
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The Federal Communications Commission is expected to ask for $25 billion, double earlier estimates, on its US national broadband plan
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Mike Quigley of Australia’s open-access company has announced the first five areas where it will build fibre-to-the-home fibre networks
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China Mobile is considering taking a 20% stake in a Shanghai bank, according to reports from China
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Travellers within the 27 member countries of the European Union will pay no more than €50 a month for roaming data
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Ericsson is to supply VDSL2 equipment to TeliaSonera so it can boost its copper network in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
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February
Orange is planning a quadruple play offer in France, including fixed and mobile phone, internet and TV
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Aircel, which operates in 18 regions of India, will use proceeds from sale of its towers to expand into five more zones to give nationwide coverage
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Pre pay mobile broadband is the key determinant in increasing the penetration rate of mobile broadband services, writes Margrit Sessions
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UK cable company Virgin Media is increasing its broadband speed from 50 to 100 megabits a second
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Telekom Austria is to merge the businesses of its fixed and mobile operations in its home country, aiming at €100m annual savings
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Truphone’s CEO Geraldine Wilson has announced the first of what she hopes will be 25 MVNO deals with leading global operators
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Nokia is looking at plans to make mobile phones in Argentina, adding to its nine worldwide plants including two in Latin America
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Sprint is planning to launch 4G phones, supplied by HTC using the Android operating system, to run on the Clearwire WiMax network
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Telefónica is launching cloud services for customers in Latin America, using NEC, following a similar service in Spain
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France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom are prepared to release spectrum to other operators to help win approval for the merger of their UK operations
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ZTE is to supply 12 of Telefónica’s operations in central and South America with a range of customised handsets
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The French analyst company says telecoms equipment sales were down 2% in 2009 and handset sales were down 4%
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Verizon Wireless is to offer Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut services on nine smartphones from March 2010
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Ericsson’s new CEO Hans Vestberg has announced that the company is launching its own white label app store, as a service to operators
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The GSM Association has won support from 20 operators for an initiative to allow voice calls and roaming over LTE
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Two dozen of the world’s largest operators are uniting to form to wholesale apps store, in a bid to prevent Apple, Nokia and other handset vendors taking over the market
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BT Wholesale is launching a content delivery network to allow ISPs to offer guaranteed quality to consumers
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ISPs are struggling to cope with consumers’ demand for online video. In the UK, BT is responding by launching its own wholesale content network for video.
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A survey of 15,000 consumers across the world shows that people trust mobile phone companies, but they say that operators are not moving fast enough to provide advanced services
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France Telecom is to invest €2 billion in fibre networks to homes in Paris and 15 other French cities
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Google is planning to build a limited number of broadband networks in US cities, operating at up to one gigabit a second
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One of Canada’s leaders in the media industry is developing broadband services and offering its nationwide fibre to international operators
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Motorola is reported to be rethinking its restructuring, selling its wireless network unit and spinning off a merged handset and set-top box unit
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The annual Connectivity Scorecard shows that Sweden has overtaken the US and other Scandinavian countries dominate
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Mobile operators will invest $72 billion in capital expenditure for broadband technologies during 2010, according to the GSM Association
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Two Indian mobile giants, Bharti Airtel and Reliance, are launching their own mobile applications stores
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Google has cut the ‘recovery fee’ that it charges US customers who downgrade their T-Mobile service contracts
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The US telecommunications industry has decided not to hold the Supercomm exhibition and conference in 2010
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Once it has completed its demerger from Carphone Warehouse, UK broadband operator TalkTalk plans to launch TV and mobile phone services
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January
AT&T is responding to increased demand for its US wireless network — largely from iPhone usage — by committing $18 billion on network improvements
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Former Microsoft executive Süreyya Ciliv has been steering Turkcell to become one of the most innovative operators in Europe
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Personal computer maker Lenovo Group is planning to introduce an Android smartphone in China
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Google has told China Unicom, Samsung and Motorola that it will delay the launch of Google-branded Android handsets in the Chinese market
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XConnect is offering a free three-month trial of a new peering service to operators providing high-definition voice services
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The two biggest US mobile operators have started a price war, reducing rates for standard services but adding fees for data usage on smartphones
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Climate change activists and governments fail to understand the contribution that information and comms technologies can make to achieving their goals
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O2, now part of Telefónica, is to start competing with former parent BT in the fixed-line market in the UK
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LG is aiming to increase its sales of mobile phones in 2010 from last year’s figure of 117 million to 140 million
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Clearwire International, headed by Barry West, has announced plans to build a WiMax network covering the Spanish city of Malaga
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Google has boosted its offer for video compression specialist On2 by 20% to $134 million
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AT&T is to launch a set of Android phones as it loses US iPhone exclusivity, from vendors including Dell, HTC and Motorola
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Zain has launched its mobile banking service, Zap, in Niger, Sierra Leone and Malawi, adding to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
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Google will add other phones that use its Android operating system to its online store following the launch of its own phone, the Nexus One
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SK Telecom in South Korea is responding to iPhone competition from rival KT by planning the launch of 12 Android phones
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Nokia is hoping to win a 40% market share of the phones business this year, with sales of 500 million, according to Rick Simonson