Operators

Cellular News reports that Vodafone has signed a partnership deal with Luxembourg mobile network operator, Tango, replacing a contract with rival operator LuxGSM which recently expired.

Telecompaper notes that Vodafone has published a standard set of Service Level Agreements, or response times for multinational customers, guaranteeing them a minimum level of service across 15 countries with the rest of the world to follow.

The Financial Times (FT) reports that Latin America should remain Telefonica's growth engine in 2009, in spite of increasing signs of a deep economic slowdown on the continent.

Telecompaper reports that Telecom Italia will become only the second operator to launch HTC's Android-powered Dream device.

French broadband provider Iliad appears confident of winning the country's fourth 3G license, with a Dow Jones Newswires report noting that the company states it will need to invest a maximum of EUR1 billion to set up the network, covering 90 percent of the population.

Sweden's Ericsson - the world's largest mobile infrastructure vendor - today announced it has won a deal to supply China Unicom with 3G WCDMA kit in 15 provinces.

TeleGeography, citing a Reuters report, notes that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has confirmed a deal for Zain to secure a major stake in PalTel could be signed in the next few days.