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Nokia is leading a group of mobile manufacturers, network operators, suppliers, recyclers, consumer and environmental organizations (including Motorola, Pa,asonic, Vodafone, Orange, Teliasonera, Intel, Epson, the World Wildlife Federation, the Finnish...

EU has proposed to apply the same requirements on advertising content and production quotas imposed to traditional television to many Internet "broadcasts". IPTV, mobile TV and online gaming should be hit by the rule.The European Parliament is scheduled...

According to the DSL Forum, there were 164m DSL users in the world as of June 30, of which 67m in Asia (33M in China), 56m in Europe, 27m in NA, 8m in Latam, 4m in Middle East. DSL grew 35% in past 12 months, adding almost 46m new users in the period...

It is an evidence that private-equity companies are more and more often interfering in the telecom market. Remember that two well-known European telcos (i.e. TDC in Denmark and Greece telco), as well as more recently Freescale Semiconductor have passed...

Current termination rate control in the UK has to expire in March 07. But Ofcom found that regulation remains necessary to protect consumers from high prices. It is why it has proposed new controls on wholesale mobile voice call termination charges (specifically...

German regulators formally told DT it has 3 months to open its new VDSL network to competitors. DT now has been ordered to come up with pricing (reviewed by the German regulator) for competitors that want use its VDSL network. DT has been in sight line...

Ovum-RHK has unveiled its optical networking market latest estimates. Alcatel remains the market leader with a 15% market share over past 12 months, but with only 13.5% during 2Q06. The story is apparently different from last week info from Infonetics...

Last week Telcoflash reported that the Indian government was awarding millions of dollars in grants to African countries for a cross-continental communications network. The $1bn joint initiative with the African Union is to build a Pan-African e-Network...

A new White Paper, from Rysavy Research and 3G Americas, provides an overview of the deployment status, and capabilities of current and future mobile wireless technologies. It includes all GSM-based technologies such as EDGE, HSDPA, LTE, and competitive...

A new report from ITU focus on least developed countries (LDCs). The output is relatively optimistic, highlighting that considerable progress has been made to bridge the digital divide, that teledensity has almost double in the majority of least developed...