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A new report by Yankee Group concludes that if the GSMA and NeuStar are successful in recruiting service providers to adopt their new managed numbering resolution service, Pathfinder, it could be a major step on the path to a global registry.

EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has warned that the European Union will not ease its stringent regulation of the sector despite slowing growth. In an interview with the Financial Times (FT), Reding said regulation was, if anything, set to be stepped up to ensure incumbent players did not "squeeze out" newcomers during the downturn.

The ng Connect Program founded by Alcatel-Lucent at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in February today announced four new members: Atlantic Records, Kyocera Communications, LearningMate, and MediaTile.

VNUNet claims that Yahoo has moved a step closer to its goal of owning the mobile Web space with the official launch of Yahoo Mobile.

Japan's second-largest mobile operator, KDDI, is to launch a solar-powered mobile device manufactured by fellow Japanese company Sharp in June.

The European Commission yesterday called for a huge cut in mobile termination rates, a move that saw Vodafone's stock experience its sharpest fall in six months.

Acer, the world's third-largest PC-maker, has said that one of its forthcoming smartphones will be based on Google's Android platform.