—UK mobile spectrum talks: British business secretary Lord Mandelson has declared himself “encouraged” by a meeting with the country’s mobile industry on how the networks carve up mobile broadband frequencies and expects a resolution of “remaining issues” in the next few days. Independent spectrum broker Kip Meek published a series of recommendations in May and more proposals from him are due “shortly”.

—UK measurement Mobile industry ody GSMA has signed up ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) to be its official mobile internet metrics measurement partner in the UK. The GSMA and the UK’s five mobile operators earlier this year announced a new mobile browsing measurement scheme, Mobile Media Metrics, which ComScore will now operate. The data will be verified by ABC Electronic and the first results are out in Q4 this year. Release.

—TomTom: The Dutch satnav maker is bringing its real-time HD Traffic services to device users in Italy, in an exclusive partnership with Vodfone Italy. The service, which provides traffic reports, fuel price data and local Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search, goes live in the middle of 2010. HD Traffic is currently available in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France. Beligum and Portugal are being added later this year. Release.