Operators

A Washington Post report claims that US operator Verizon Wireless has cut prices on many of its older smartphones to US$99 with a two-year contract,

Vodafone Greece has entered into a strategic partnership with Greek fixed-line broadband provider Hellas Online Electronic Communications (HOL) that will see the two companies combine their DSL businesses.

Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) has reported that its net profit for the first half of 2009 saw a slight fall year-on-year to OMR73.04 million (US$190.2 million), down from OMR74.8 million recorded in 1H08, notes TeleGeography.

Google will soon compete harder with Research In Motion to nab mobile professionals with its Android mobile operating system, notes InformationWeek.

Huawei today announced deployment of a packet-based mobile backhaul network supporting TD-SCDMA technology for China Mobile in Zhejiang, which it claims is the world's first to comply with the IEEE 1588v2 standard allowing the operator to eventually upgrade the network to LTE technology.

Orange-owner France Telecom is to take its battle for ownership of ECMS (Mobinil), Egypt's largest mobile operator, to the country's supreme court after having its appeal rejected by the local regulator, reports the Financial Times.

Indian mobile giant Bharti Airtel is mulling a bid for Millicom's mobile business in neighbouring Sri Lanka, one of the three Asian mobile networks the Luxembourg-based firm put up for sale last month.