Recent Press Releases

Arcep reveals figures on investment, revenue and pricing for 2012

Investment and employment observatory: record spending in 2012 and stable employment levels Operator spending increased substantially for the third year in a row - exceeding €10 billion for the...

Mobile users move toward contract tariffs as prepaid plateaus

Wireless Intelligence this week published new operator prepaid/contract forecasts until 2017. We found that the global split today – 77% prepaid, 23% contract (Q1 2013) – will be...

UAE announces 700 MHz band for mobile broadband

The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announces today its band plan for 700 MHz and announced the release of spectrum in the 800 MHz band for mobile broadband services. The TRA...

Telefónica and Samsung sign global carrier billing agreement

Telefónica Digital and Samsung Electronics announced a global agreement that will pave the way for their customers to benefit from the ease and convenience of being able to purchase apps and...

European Commission takes decision in principle to launch probe into Chinese vendors

Statement by EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht on mobile telecommunications networks from China: "The European Commission has today taken a decision in principle to open an ex officio...

Telekom Austria picks ZTE for converged voice network

ZTE Corporation, a publicly listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, is to provide a CS/IMS converged voice network to the Telekom Austria Group....

Telefónica Germany and Telekom Intend to Expand Cooperation for Fixed Network

BONN/MUNICH. Telefónica Germany and Telekom want to expand their cooperation for fixed line network and therefore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Telefónica Germany wants to...

First quarter 2013: Telefónica Deutschland shows solid results in challenging market conditions

MUNICH. Telefónica Deutschland recorded solid results in the first quarter. The company saw increases in contract customers and data revenues. Operational results (OIBDA) showed constant...

Business Productivity Handicapped by Poor Mobile Coverage, Capacity and Services

Survey by market research firm YouGov reveals the extent to which businesses are suffering from poor in-building mobile coverage and capacity and the willingness to move to a new mobile operator that can solve this problem and deliver additional managed mobility services to the enterprise.

EE goes live in 12 more towns across the UK

EE announced that 4G is available in 12 more towns across the UK, bringing the total number of towns and cities covered by the superfast mobile network to 62.

BT selected by Telefonica UK to help deliver network capacity for 4G services

BT has signed a new ten year deal with Telefonica UK to support the introduction of 4G services for millions of O2 mobile customers.

Ofcom invites industry to pilot 'white space' devices

Ofcom has today announced plans for a pilot of innovative 'white space' technology in the UK, among the first of its kind in Europe.

Telenor Serbia is entering mobile financial sector through the acquisition of KBC Banka

Telenor Serbia  is buying KBC Banka and is committed to introducing advanced mobile financial services to customers in Serbia.

More smartphones were shipped in Q1 2013 than feature phones, report says

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time.

UK's EE signs up 318,000 LTE subscribers; reports first-quarter results

EE says 4G customer base reaches 318k after just five months of trading, firmly on track to meet target of more than one million 4G customers by the end of 2013; over 1,600 medium and large companies using 4G; network rollout to reach 70% UK population by year end

Zain Bahrain launches 4G network

- Collaboration with Ericsson in upgrading 4G LTE state-of-the-art network will benefit the Bahrain community with unparalleled digital experiences - Bahrain joins Zain's Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...

Telefónica Czech Republic launches new tariffs; drops phone subsidies

O2 is shaking the Czech mobile market. People won't have to think about when and whom are they calling Unlimited calls and SMSing within the O2 network for CZK 249 a month Unlimited calls...

Deutsche Telekom picks Tail-f for SDN

Tail-f Systems, which provides network service programmability solutions for traditional and software-defined networks (SDN), said Deutsche Telekom has chosen Tail-f Systems to deliver the key...

Three Ireland picks Samsung for LTE network

Three, Ireland's largest high speed network* and fastest growing mobile operator, today announced that it has selected Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, market leaders in LTE solutions, as its sole provider of LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) and LTE core infrastructure equipment. The deployment marks Samsung's second commercial mobile network roll-out in Europe and its first in Ireland.

Report: UK digital ad spend up 12.5% to almost £5.5B

Mobile spend crosses half billion £ mark; now accounting for 10% of digital spend. Digital advertising up £607m; mobile driving over half this growth. Video up 46% to £160m; social...