NSN is working with Airvana on femtocells. A joint solution is expected by the end of 2007. Samsung plans to launch touch-screen cell phone, F700, in Europe in Nov. Ericsson has launched its U335 WCDMA mobile platform for mass market HSPA devices. Cubic...

Ericsson has upgraded 3 Scandinavia network with enhanced mobile broadband services at up to 7.2Mbit/s. It has bee awarded two contracts for hosted multimedia services: a ringback tones service and content downloads, by CellularOne (Dobson group) in the...

UTStarcom is launching some structural changes in order to go back to profitability. Four separate business units are formed: * Personal Communications Division, which sells handsets other than PAS * Terminal Business Units, developing handsets and related...

Fastweb (Italy) is bidding for Tele2's Italian assets. TeliaSonera reaches 200k digital TV customers in Sweden. Mena Telecom is ready to launch WiMAX services by the end of the year. Indonesia has granted PT Bakrie Telecom with international land-line...

DT bought SunCom Wireless, a regional operator in the USA, for $2.4bn in cash and debt. Suncom has about 1.1m subscribers in south east region. DT also bought Immobilienscout stake for about €360m. Vivendi (France) is planning external growth. It plans...

Leap Wireless (USA) has rejected a merger proposal from MetroPCS. Seven firms are in the final list of bidders for the second mobile license in Qatar. MTS (Russia) plans to spend $430m to take control of Armenia-based operator VivaCell. SK Telecom (S....

S. Korea: SK Telecom reached 21.5m subscribers by end-August, of which 804k 3G users; while KTF had 13.5m subscribers, of which 1.7m are 3G. India added almost 6m new mobile subscribers in August, bringing the total to 148m. Argentina: according to Prince...

Nortel Appoints Joel Hackney as president Enterprise Solutions.

A few set of market information released this week: According to Berg Insight, the number of mobile subscribers accessing maps and downloading routes using their mobile handsets in Europe and the USA is expected to grow to 43m by 2012 at a CAGR of 61%....

Nokia is planning to launch in 1H08 WiMAX-equipped internet tablets. Motorola unveils its phone strategy in three points: streamlining its device platforms, a steady stream of new products, make profitable market share. Nevertheless it already decided...