(Telecompaper) Portuguese investment fund Ongoing Strategy Investments, a Portugal Telecom investor, announced it supported the Portuguese operator's decision to reject a bid for its stake in Vivo...

(Telecompaper) Yahoo! has launched a content and marketing programme to bring World Cup coverage to life online and offline for its users around the world...

(Telecompaper) The ban on outdoor advertising of mobile services in Tajikistan has been overturned...

(Telecompaper) Digisec Group's subsidiary Earthrise Technologies and M2M connectivity provider Telenor Connexion have formed a partnership to deploy Digisec's eco...

(Telecompaper) Spain will not introduce terrestrial mobile TV services for the moment. If there is not an increase in demand, the government will allocate the...

(Telecompaper) Vip Macedonia has launched the Vip Android challenge, a contest aimed at developers who create applications with local value for smartphones running on the Android platform...

(Telecompaper) O2 UK is extending its Simplicity Sim-only offer to prepaid customers. The prepaid offer starts at GBP 5 for a month of unlimited texts...

(Telecompaper) O2 UK will start selling the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus mobile phones from 28 May. They will be available from free in all O2 stores and online at O2's website...

(Telecompaper) Virgin Mobile, T-Mobile and 3 UK will offer the recently announced HTC Wildfire smartphone in the UK. T-Mobile UK said on its Twitter feed that the Wildfire will launch from mid-June...

(Telecompaper) The city government of Toulouse, France, has begun its project of measuring the transmission power of 30 mobile base stations dubbed "black spots" by neighbours, reports 20 Minutes...

(Telecompaper) The Safaricom Foundation announced a KES 13.2 million grant towards the rehabilitation of the Kenya Rugby Union grounds in Nairobi, ahead of Africa's...

(Telecompaper) Maltese operator Go appoints Paul Fenech as member of its board of directors. Fenech currently serves as chairman of Classic Group...

(Telecompaper) Azerbaijan mobile operator Bakcell plans to expand its retail network to 17 outlets by the end of the year, with five outlets in Baku and the rest in other cities and towns...

(Telecompaper) South Africa's Mobile TV Consortium (Mobile TV) announced that it has referred the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to the Public Protector's Johannesburg office...

(Telecompaper) Ecrio has spun out its MoBeam subsidiary as an independent company. The new company will offer its patented MoBeam technology to consumers, media...

(Telecompaper) Watchdata continues its cooperation with China Telecom with the extension of the operator's mobile payment programme in the province of Jiangsu, launched back in December 2009...

(Telecompaper) Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter, up 17 percent from 269.1 million in the same period of 2009, according to a study by Gartner...

(Telecompaper) US mobile broadband company NextWave Wireless' revenues for the fiscal first quarter to 3 April increased 5.91 percent to USD 17.9 million from USD 16.9 million in the year-earlier quarter...

(Telecompaper) Korean carrier KT and refiner GS Caltex will work together for smart grid, green energy and mobile payment businesses, reports The Korean Herald...

(Telecompaper) Thai mobile operator Dtac has deployed Polystar's network management product for global roaming quality and international direct dialling call...