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Two industry groups - the TD Industry Association (TDIA) and the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance - are teaming up with the aim of promoting TD-LTE technology worldwide and ensuring the development of a converged standard for Frequency Division Duplex (FDD)-

Telecompaper reports that all the qualified operators participating in Ofta's 1800MHz auction in Hong Kong won blocks of spectrum.

Italian telecoms regulator, the Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MdSE), has awarded the 3G spectrum vacated by Italian mobile operator Ipse 2000 to existing operators Vodafone Italia, Telecom Italia (TIM) and Wind following a short auction.

The Icelandic government is reportedly looking to sell its indirect 57.2 percent stake in the country's second-largest mobile operator, Vodafone Iceland.

The UK government’s blueprint, Digital Britain, was published yesterday to a chorus of criticism, particularly regarding its lack of foresight on the role of mobile.

Vodafone has announced its first commercial femtocell, the Access Gateway. It will be available from Vodafone shops or online from 1 July and the company claims it is the first of its kind in Europe, able to support four calls made on 3G phones simultaneously.

British mobile operators Vodafone UK and O2 UK said their first shared site has gone live. Vodafone’s equipment was added to an O2 base station to increase Vodafone’s coverage of a section of the M4 motorway.