The Vodafone Group matches T-Mobile's recent Fujitsu Siemens announcement by unveiling a laptop alliance of its own - this time, with Dell. For Vodafone, this is likely to be the ...

BT's new CoS features are still in the labs and no commercial rollout date has been announced. However, BT is clearly trying to play a more active role in ...

Despite euphoric predictions of MVNO arrivals in 2006, market regulation is still a work in progress. Would-be MVNOs should see the regulator's proposed elimination of the non-discrimination clause as a ...

Verizon Business' official launch is clearly US-centric at this point and the international picture is not ready for show yet. The MCI brand is gone, but the Verizon brand ...

Tu Eliges breaks down the traditional divide between postpaid and prepaid tariffs. Last year, Movistar focused on migration strategies. Tu Eliges represents a new experiment in hybrid tariffs. The end ...

Siemens Communications' sale of its Switzerland enterprise business to Swisscom Solutions represents an innovative approach to the execution of a strategy to increase indirect channel distribution, although the real revenue ...

France Telecom delivers a NExT progress report, claiming completion of some aspects will be achieved more quickly than originally planned. The nervous reaction to poorer H2 2005 sales than expected ...

Exponential-e and Yipes join up their Ethernet networks to offer enterprises a larger service footprint. Both are small players, but they have leading VPLS capabilities and a mission to ...

Telenor has launched a wireless mobility innovation company, Movation AS, with six Norwegian technology partners. However, there is no SI expertise, the relationship is non-exclusive and the suspicion of innovation ...

France Telecom has started FTTH network trials in parts of Paris and Hauts-de-Seine. The carrier is responding practically to competition, but will probably not announce any greater FTTH deployments until ...

The pre-3GSM PR engine is cranking up. Near-simultaneous announcements flagging up the arrival of the BlackBerry 8700 in Spain suggest a potential show focus on enhanced mobile e-mail devices and ...

BlackBerry users will be able to do everything they do from a PC using Google Talk - except talk. Where's the sense in that? ...

Is this the end of the FreeMove Alliance? Not in the short-term: Amena will replace Movistar in Spain. But the exit underlines the fragile nature of wireless alliance loyalty ...

KPN acquires Attingo along with the operator's exclusive claim to providing public Internet access at Schiphol airport, extending the incumbent's national WiFi presence to include one of the country's busiest ...

Verizon officially closed its merger with MCI, creating a large and powerful carrier in the U.S. market with limited impact on the global carriers in Europe. But the news ...

Exponential-e, an Ethernet service pioneer, packs a punch for its small size and will cause a few larger competitors to gasp with the rollout of its VPLS network to 50 ...

Telefonica's directors approve a management reorganisation designed to achieve more effective coordination of expanded global operations. The move establishes a platform for identifying and developing more compelling global business solutions. ...

IBM buys Micromuse to add real-time monitoring to its Tivoli network management platform and to gain access to the WAN monitoring market. IBM becomes a challenger to HP and Computer ...

Carphone Warehouse's purchase of OneTel adds bulk and brings its customer base over 2.4 million; however, these customers are mainly interested in cheap voice minutes - a market that is ...

BT makes strong progress in Italy, acquiring Atlanet from Fiat. An additional bonus is that BT is winning a nice fat Fiat global communications contract, which gives immediate revenue ...