August

Inmarsat to get $340m in LightSquared pact 19 August 2010

Inmarsat has won a $340m contract from LightSquared to provide the satellite capacity for its US mobile network

Interview: Kathryn Morrissey of AT&T 17 August 2010

Enterprise mobility, applications and M2M underpin wholesale ambition with global scale

July

Operators reinforce plan to end Apple’s apps dominance 27 July 2010

Vodafone's Michel Combes is to chair the mobile industry's Wholesale Applications Community, with JIL's CEO Peters Suh taking over as CEO

BT picks ECI for broadband project 07 July 2010

Openreach local loop order for fibre programme

Broadband cable to west Africa is live 02 July 2010

MainOne links Ghana and Nigeria with western Europe

SFR to sell HP cloud services to enterprises 01 July 2010

Cloud platform for infrastructure as a service

June

Interview: Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne Cable 30 June 2010

Main line to Ghana and Nigeria ready to enter service in July

Interview: Rakesh Bhasin of Colt 28 June 2010

Colt ready to invest cash on boosting cloud and managed services business

Iridium arranges funds for next-gen satellites 02 June 2010

Satellite company Iridium picks Thales Alenia to build 81 new satellites and arranges funds

May

Australia rejects Telstra’s price rise 19 May 2010

The Australian Competition Tribunal has rejected Telstra’s bid to raise the wholesale price for access to its copper network

Türk Telekom to buy Invitel for €197m 19 May 2010

Invitel Holdings is selling wholesale division Invitel International to Turkey’s Türk Telekom for €197m

Virgin launches Qatar MVNO 14 May 2010

Qtel has launched Virgin Mobile in Qatar in a tie-up with Richard Branson, who is considering other partnerships with the company

NZ Telecom weighs options for wholesale 07 May 2010

New Zealand Telecom chief Paul Reynolds may sell its international wholesale voice unit or merge it with another operator’s

Industry’s powerful back GSMA apps plan 05 May 2010

The GSM Association’s biggest members are backing a plan to launch a wholesale apps store, to give developers a one-stop-shop, by February 2011

T-Mobile USA plans 4G deal with Harbinger 04 May 2010

The company that last month recruited Sanjiv Ahuja to build a satellite/terrestrial 4G network in the US is talking to T-Mobile USA about a wholesale deal

April

Interview: Vladimir Butenko of CommuniGate Systems 22 April 2010

Vladimir Butenko’s CommuniGate Systems offers hosted unified communications services via telecoms operators to 150 million users worldwide

Interview: Vladimir Butenko of CommuniGate Systems 22 April 2010

Vladimir Butenko’s CommuniGate Systems offers hosted unified communications services via telecoms operators to 150 million users worldwide

Telstra considers access rate hike for rivals 22 April 2010

Telstra is planning to increase the price it charges rivals for wholesale access to its local loop

March

NTT connects with TTK across Russia 04 March 2010

NTT is using wholesale provider TTK to deliver its services to customers across Russia

February

Interview: Sian Baldwin of BT Wholesale 12 February 2010

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.

Interview: Edward Rogers of Rogers Communications 11 February 2010

One of Canada’s leaders in the media industry is developing broadband services and offering its nationwide fibre to international operators

BT to open up cable duct network to rivals 08 February 2010

Reports from the UK suggest BT is considering plans to open up its cable ducts to rival operators