A few set of market information released this week: According to SNL Kagan, US mobile penetration would be 84% by the end of the year, and is projected to surge over 100% by 2013. According to 3G Americas, Uruguay has a potential of 250k 3G users within...

ALU has shown interest in forming a venture with Thai Mobile for providing 3G mobile services in Thailand. Apple is said asking 10% of all iPhone-related revenues from its yet-to-be announced European distributors. IBM will resell, under an OEM agreement,...

NSN will provide carrier grade Ethernet switches to Yunnan CTC, a unit of China Telecom.

Matsushita would pay up to $172m on a battery replacement program for Nokia handset owners. Palm is planning to launch its first Linux-based smartphone in October. Nokia installs Microsoft Internet Windows Live tools on mobile phones, and will make India...

ALU will provide Bollore Telecom (France) with IEEE 802.16e-2005 3.5GHz WiMAX gear for the deployment in 12 regional networks in France (including Paris and PACA regions). It will provide wireless Local Area Network (LAN) solutions to Korean Broadcasting...

NSN will receive a $810m preliminary order from BSNL (India) for 9m GSM lines. HTC' s 3G handsets will be sold by Sprint Nextel in the US. New Motorola Q handset with new music capabilities will be sold by Verizon Wireless. Ericsson has signed a softswitch...

BskyB (UK) has extended the takeover offer for computer/electronic hardware maker Amstrad to September 4. Verizon Wireless, RealNetworls and MTV Networks will jointly launch Rhapsody America, designed to take on Apple's iTunes. T-Mobile, Orange and O2...

Telkom (South Africa) plans to invest up to $1bn in Nigeria' s fixed Wireless service provider, Multi-Links Limited. KPN is buying Belgian Tele2/ Versatel operations for €95m. Neuf Cegetel (France) will offer unlimited music downloads from Universal for...

Porta (Ecuador) will migrate its remaining TDMA subscribers to GSM by end of September. Movistar Ecuador will also migrate its TDMA subscribers to GSM and shut the network on December 31, 2008. Vodafone targets to get a 51% stake in the new GSM operator...

China Unicom added 1.5m mobile subscribers (of which 1.1m in GSM) in July bringing its total to 153.1m (of which 113.7m GSM). China Mobile added 5.6m new subscribers in July, bringing its total to 338m users. China would pass 500m mobile subscriber base...