The European Union’s quest to create a single telecom market has cleared a key hurdle. The Industry Research and Energy Committee approved the “Telecoms Single Market Regulation,” a package of new policies that include ending roaming and enacting a form …
Speaking at the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a collaboration with Germany to drive research on so-called “5G” technology and the “Internet of things.” Cameron also called on improving the European telecommunications …
A battle of billionaires is underway in France as media company Vivendi has reportedly given bidders until March 5 to submit final offers for its telecom unit, SFR, the second largest operator in France. The two contenders are the French …
Orange, France’s largest carrier, is looking to take over the triple play provider Jazztel, sources told Bloomberg News. The mobile operator Yoigo, currently owned by Stokholm-based TeliaSonera is also a potential target. The moves by Orange follow earlier reports that U.K.-based …
Vodafone appears ready to go shopping as its nears the closing of its $130 billion deal to sell Verizon Communications at the end of this month. CEO Vittorio Colao said that the carrier has an acquisition capacity of $30 billion to …
Struggling Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) showed signs that its “Shift Plan” is well underway as it posted mixed fourth quarter and full year results for 2013, and announced the sale of its enterprise unit to China Huaxin for $362 million. The Paris-based telecom …
Ericsson (ERIC) CEO Hans Vestberg says he has no plans to leave the company, dispelling rumors that he was on the short list of candidates to replace Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. That news along with the company’s guidance regarding stronger …
A reinvented Nokia posted losses for the fourth quarter and the entire year of 2013. However, the Finnish company, which sold off its devices unit to Microsoft in 2013, remained upbeat about its continuing businesses in networking, mapping and advanced …
Nokia saw huge changes in 2013: returning to profitability, buying out Nokia Siemens Networks and selling off its smartphone business to Microsoft. Now, Nokia closed out the year with a major victory in Germany in its ongoing patent fight with Taiwan-based HTC. …
With mobile data usage surging, wireless industry trade association CTIA released a tool that lets consumers see how much bandwidth many popular apps use before they download them. The site KnowMyApp.org measures 50 of the most popular free and paid …
Yota Devices is making the mobile world look twice at the smartphone concept. The Moscow-based start up, which was spun off from the Russian mobile broadband provider Yota in 2011, recently launched a smartphone with an LED screen on one …
Building on a reputation in banking security and capitalizing on concerns over the U.S. spying scandal, several Swiss firms are seeing a growing interest in ultra-secure data centers. Some are even hiding data centers inside mountains. One center run by …
René Obermann may be in his last days as the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, but he is not leaving quietly. The 49-year-old exec has been making some bold statements in both German and U.S. newspapers about data privacy and the …
In an aggressive move, telecom giant Vodafone is deploying its m-payment service throughout Europe. The Vodafone Wallet, which launched is Spain earlier this month, comes to Germany in the next few days, followed by the Netherlands, U.K. and Italy in …
Squeezed by a price war in its home country, Paris-based telecom Orange is reportedly eyeing Canada. Orange Horizons, an Orange subsidiary created to look for new market opportunities, has held exploratory talks with Canada’s industry, trade and telecommunication agencies, according …
Three recently added the U.S. to its “Feel at Home” roaming plan, allowing its U.K. customers to use their normal calling and data plans when traveling to the United States. In doing so, the relatively small carrier—it’s the fourth largest …
Smartphone-savvy city dwellers want new mobile services to improve their lives; they just don’t always expect ICT companies to be the ones delivering them, according to a new survey from Ericsson ConsumerLab. “Mass demand for new ICT services can change …
Over the next four years, carriers and other businesses will spend $6 billion globally on outdoor small cell backhaul equipment, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. While there were fewer than 7,000 outdoor small cell backhaul connections in …
Search engine giant Google is hoping that an individualized, hands-free, voice-responsive Moto X will attract high-end U.S. smartphone users. The Google-owned Motorola Mobility revealed the much-awaited smartphone on Aug. 1 with a press event in New York and a long …
Corning, maker of Gorilla Glass, announced its third consecutive quarter of strong growth in earnings per share amid declining LCD glass prices. Corning’s core sales were $2 billion for the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 11% over the …
Qwilt, a company that specializes in online video delivery and transparent caching solutions, can count another big name among its funders: Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP). The 102-year-old firm, which has backed multiple successful tech ventures including Skype, Yelp and LinkedIn, …
Of the 51.7 million tablets that shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2013, a whopping 67% were running the Android operating system, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics. Apple came in with 28%. Just a year ago the …
Even as rumors surfaced last week that HP is planning to release a $99 tablet, some market observers were already giving the product low marks. Citing unnamed sources, Digitimes reported that Hewlett-Packard is partnering with Wal-Mart to sell the tablet …
It was a record-breaking year for smartphones. Device makers shipped more than 700 million units worldwide in 2012, the largest number to date, according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics. The top seller, Samsung, led the field with its …
Skyway Towers has secured an additional $75 million from its investors. Tinicum and Permit Capital Private Equity Fund made the commitment to continue development of Tampa-based Skyway’s wireless communication towers in strategic locations. “This capital allows us to continue our …
