Spain's Telefonica and Portugal Telecom have completed their exit of Morocco by selling their combined 64.36 percent interest in Meditel - the country's second-largest mobile operator - to a consortium of minority shareholders.

Major mobile network vendor Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) today announced that its CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie is to step down and be replaced by current head of services, Rajeev Suri (pictured, left).

China Mobile is still in talks with Apple to launch the iPhone and is busy promoting its own 'OPhones' as the world's largest mobile operator gets to grips with last week's news that rival China Unicom has signed a three-year deal to sell Apple's iconic device.

Telefonica Europe today announced that Juraj Sedivy is leaving his post as CEO of Telefonica O2 Slovakia, notes Cellular News.

Chipmaker ST-Ericsson, a joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, today announced the appointment of Gilles Delfassy (pictured above) as its new President and CEO, taking over from Alain Dutheil. Delfassy will assume his new position from 2 November.

Cellular News notes that Thai mobile operator, Total Access Communication (DTAC), has announced the start of a trial of a 3G network operating in the 900Mhz spectrum band.

Light Reading Asia notes that India's fastest-growing new entrant, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), is the first operator in the world to commit to CDMA 1x Advanced, the recently standardised upgrade to CDMA 1x.