Operators

Verizon's president and COO Dennis F. Strigl is to retire at the end of this year.

US operator Verizon Wireless claims that more than 1,000 developers have registered to become part of its Verizon Developer Community in the last month.

Telenor has teamed with the Red Cross, ChildMinder and the Norwegian Media Authority to launch Norway's biggest ever campaign against digital bullying

Several leading international operators are among the 13 potential investors that have expressed interest in acquiring Nitel, the struggling state-controlled Nigerian operator.

The Financial Times has reignited speculation that Deutsche Telekom could be close to offloading its struggling UK mobile arm, T-Mobile UK, to a rival UK mobile operator.

Iran's newly-appointed minister of Communications and Information Technology has announced that the country will make yet another attempt to award its third mobile operator license, reports Cellular News, citing an article in the Tehran Times.

Reuters reports that Softbank, Japan's third-largest mobile operator, outran rivals NTT Docomo and KDDI in the number of net new subscribers it signed up in August, after relinquishing its lead in July to Docomo.