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Fastweb, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom take the lead in today's roundup of European telecom news bites

O2, Deutsche Telekom, and Virgin Media are in today's potpourri of European telecom news

Expected 'dual-carrier' speed bump should require less work on the network side, but faster downloads will require newer devices

Verizon Wireless's rumored prepaid smartphone plans are only a tactic, not the start of a real prepaid strategy UPDATED 12:25 PM

Shocking news! Indian government allocates 3G spectrum on time

C&W Worldwide, VimpelCom, and Vodafone Germany are doing the business in today's digest of Europe telecom news snippets

T-Mobile USA is promising 42-Mbit/s 3G in 2011, but will only beat AT&T in highest theoretical speeds

Stephen Carter critical of government decision to scrap proposed fixed-line tax.

VoIP, on-demand video fuelling demand for fibre kit maker's products.

H-P wins fierce bidding war with a $2.4 billion offer.

Government demands BlackBerry maker blocks pornographic material.

Android-powered Folio 100 to go on sale in Europe, Middle East, Africa.

Firm forms search team to find successor to Don Smith.

Android chief Andy Rubin reportedly aiming to launch in time for Christmas.

Server, storage revenue falls 13%.

As this year's WCA judging gets underway, the telecoms industry goes tablet crazy.

U Mobile and Celcom Axiata have extended their agreement on domestic roaming for another three years. Under the updated contract between the two companies U Mobile customers will continue operate over Celcom’s 2G network in those areas where the U Mobile ...

Verizon, the country’s largest cellular carrier brought out a new scheme for its Prepaid customers. It is opening up access to smartphones for customers who are with poor credit and those who don’t want to be tied down by long-term contracts. ...

MegaFon, Russian Mobile operator, has launched commercial service under HSPA+ in the cities of Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny. The network will allow consumers a download speed of 16 Mbps, instead of the previous 8 Mbps for the network. According to Igor Az...

Alcatel-Lucent, a global telecommunications corporation has acquired OpenPlug, a software developer specializing in tools for Mobile applications.  Through this acquisition, the company seeks to strengthen its presence in the mobile applications market by...

Tata Teleservices has given Huawei a contract to roll out the company’s 3G Mobile network. Huawei will deploy 3G equipment in five of the nine circles for which Tata Tele has acquired spectrum. A deal for the remaining four circles has been awarded ...

Israel’s telecommunications regulator has ordered Mobile operators to cut Interconnection Fees by nearly 73%. According to Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon, interconnect fees will drop to  US$0.0181 a minute at the start of 2011 from US$ 0.066 n...

According to reports, Bangladesh based telecom operators Warid Telecom, which Bharti Airtel acquired for 70% stake for an investment of US$300.1 million in January this year, may be among 24 companies in the country that are asked to become a public limit...

Samsung has launched its first Tablet device ‘The Galaxy Tab’ with global carrier Vodafone and set to offer the product from October. The market prices have not been released yet and much will obviously hinge on that, but Vodafone’s Samsung Galaxy Tab loo...

I saw this note from Ray at mobile payments provider, Bango on the MoMoLondon list. It may well be of interest to any application developers reading. Bango is adding new capabilities to its “In Application” analytics service. Info is sent from the App t...