Europe

Tele2 reported third-quarter revenues of SEK9.763 billion (US$1.4 billion), up 3 percent from a year earlier thanks to growth in its mobile base and in Russia, reports Telecompaper.

French conglomerate Bouygues has submitted a complaint about the bidding process for a fourth 3G mobile operator to France's highest administrative court, the Council of State, La Tribune said on Wednesday, notes Reuters.

Telenor has said it will not begin settlement talks with Russia's Alfa Group until a related lawsuit brought against it by Farimex Products is dropped, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian group told The Moscow Times today.

The European Commission (EC) has welcomed moves by the mobile industry to develop a common phone charger and said that a new EU-wide standard for the chargers will be introduced soon.

New price curbs on the cost of using a mobile phone while outside a home state in the European Union came into effect today.

Ericsson has won a three-year network modernisation deal at Ukrainian operator Kyivstar. While Ukraine awaits the imminent release of 3G licenses, Kyivstar's customers will be able to access multimedia data services and voice services via Kyivstar's GSM/EDGE network. No financial details of the deal were disclosed.

The European Union has cancelled plans for a controversial import tax that could have pushed up the price of smartphones by 14 percent, notes Cellular News.