Europe

French conglomerate Bouygues – owner of the country’s number three mobile network – has said it has no plans to sell to Orascom, despite Orascom chairman Naguib Sawiris (pictured) earlier saying he was interested in making the deal.

TeleGeography reports that talks between Spain’s mobile network operators over the reallocation of spectrum in the 900MHz band have fallen apart.

Hansenet acquisition positions O2 Germany to take on T-Mobile and Vodafone in DSL

Telecompaper reports that Telecom Italia has launched pre-commercial trials of a LTE network.

Sweden’s TeliaSonera and Russian holding group Alfa have agreed to combine their respective direct and indirect interests in Turkcell and MegaFon into a new company, effectively ending a legal battle between the two parties.

Russia, the world's fourth-largest market by subscribers, is poised for a period of rapid transformation as its big three mobile operators - MegaFon, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and VimpelCom - get set to rollout high-speed WCDMA and WCDMA-HSPA networks this year.

Last month, Arcep, the French regulator, began another public consultation into the sale of the country's fourth WCDMA license.