The bidding process for France's long-awaited fourth 3G license was launched by the country's government on Saturday, with an asking price of EUR240 million.

Russia's largest mobile operator MTS is looking to buy sister firm Comstar in a move that would make it the country's largest integrated operator by revenue.

India's Bharti and South Africa's MTN today confirmed they are to extend their merger talks by another month, with an exclusivity period now ending 31 August

Shares in HTC plunged by its daily maximum limit of 7 percent this morning after the Taiwanese smartphone-maker slashed its full-year revenue forecast late Friday, reports Reuters.

Telecompaper notes that mobile equipment provider TeleCommunication Systems has filed two patent infringement lawsuits in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Sybase 365.

The Guardian reports that UK mobile phone users will no longer have to call up their provider if they want to move their phone number to another network, local regulator Ofcom proposed today

TeleGeography reports that Brazilian mobile group TIM Participacoes (TIM Brasil), a unit of Telecom Italia, yesterday reported second-quarter net losses of BRL15.2 million (US$8.3 million) in 2Q09