While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…

CES, currently in full swing in Las Vegas, promises to bring out another wave of Android tablets, to add to the 40+ that were on the market before the week even started (if you don’t count e-readers built on the platform; if you do, it’s more like 50). Sound flooded?…

MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…

China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies like Apple are doubling down on their investments there. But similarly, Chinese mobile players are looking at ways of exporting their products and playing on their brands abroad, and…

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy—in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line of smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS—that it was bound to be problematic when the phones finally hit the market: on the…

We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is preparing an official submission to the EU against a proposed joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile operators to enable mobile payments and other…

Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest vote of confidence yet from the carrier community today, as some 45 of them endorsed NFC and committed to support and launch services based on it. The crucial questions…

Remember the “Facebook phones” launched by HTC and INQ earlier this year that gave users a hotlink to the social network and integrated the service into other aspects of the device? Well, here come more: Orange today is announcing that it will start to sell three new phones across its…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has pushed hard to get its first two Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows-based phones out before the holiday season. The industry will be watching closely to see how well the Lumia 800 and 710 sell (respectively at €420 ($589.6/£368.05) and €270 ($379.03/£236.6) without subsidies and taxes)—with all manner…

France Telecom’s Q3 profit dipped by 5.2 percent to €3.99 billion. All regions in which it operates except Spain turned in negative results.

Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…

Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, an Ireland-based mobile social networking and cloud-services specialist NewBay for a sum believed to be in the region of $100 million.

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too. The company has announced that it is buying Israel-based mapping and location-based services company Telmap. The move comes as there are signs…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples of how its trying to diversify for a later day. It has bought the German Groupon clone Daily Deal and it has started rolling out its…

Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2 in the UK will be no different… Before those operators have even applied for clearance from the regulators, the UK’s fourth-biggest operator, Hutchison…

Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…

Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer—France’s answer to Spotify—to launch an exclusive mobile music service that will effectively be offered “free” to those who sign up for Orange’s premium, two-year service plans.