News analysis
TeliaSonera rejects France Telecom offer
France Telecom has made a formal bid for TeliaSonera, at SEK 56.225 per share. The French operator said the bid was "firendly and indicative", and represented a 26% premium on TeliaSonera's price on April 15, the day before
Orange plays catch-up
When ex-Virgin Mobile man Tom Alexander took over at Orange, one of the first things he did was bring in lots of other ex-Virgin types to have a really close look at the company. Well, the results areQualcomm makes femtocell investment
Qualcomm has made another strategic investment in a UK mobile company - this time pumping an undisclosed amount into pico and femtocell developer ip.access. Qualcomm joins Cisco, Intel Capital, ADC and Motorola Ventures, Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion and Amadeus Capital Partners as strategic investors in ip.access.
NokiaSiemens targets service management space
Nokia Siemens Networks wants to take its OSS business up the value chain, away from network element management, into the service assurance and management chain, its new Head of Operations & Business Software, Juhani Hintika, has told MobileQualcomm wins L-Band spectrum
Qualcomm has won the UK auction for spectrum in the 1452-1492 MHz band, with a wining bid of £8,334,000. The spectrum band is known as L-Band, and is awarded on a technology neutral basis.
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Blyk signs up its first 100,000
MVNO Blyk, which launched a few months late in September 2007, has said it has caught up ground by signing up 100,000 "members" six months ahead of its own schedule. The company targets 16-24 year olds in the UK, who fill in a profile form about themselves when they sign up.
Vodafone R&D chief backs LTE, still watching WiMax closely
Bring me automation, ease of installation and high efficiency - and don't forget backhaul
The head of the networks division of Vodafone’s group R&D function has said that LTE is currently the most likely candidate technology to meet
TD-CMDA trialled for public safety
NextWave Wireless, a provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, in collaboration with Northrop Grumman and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), has successfully completed a public safety network trial in the county of Sussex in the