Ashish Chowdhary has been appointed to lead the services business at Nokia Siemens Networks, effective 1 October 2009, when the current head, Rajeev Suri, becomes chief executive officer.

Wall Street Journal reports that, in an effort to avert any legal threat that might discourage the adoption of Linux, a group of Microsoft rivals is about to acquire a set of patents formerly owned by the software giant.

Motorola has asked for bids for Mirs Communications' iDEN network in Israel to be submitted by the middle of this month.

Sweden's TeliaSonera has said it has no immediate plans to divest its majority stake in Spanish 3G operator Yoigo and will focus on returning a profit at the unit next year.

NTT Docomo has teamed up with five major network vendors to develop specifications for new value-added services delivered via IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology.

Taiwan's HTC today enhanced its status as the industry's leading supplier of devices running the Android operating system (OS) by unveiling its Tattoo phone.

Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and France Telecom's Orange have agreed to merge their UK operations in a 50/50 joint venture that will create a new UK market leader.