Fitch Ratings says that the impact of the current economic downturn could stall Turkish consumer demand for new 3G phone services despite industry expectations that it will significantly boost data revenues and result in overall increases in ARPU.

Alaska Communications Systems has reported a 19% rise in Q2 revenues to US$96.1 million, and a net income of US$2.5 million, compared to a profit of US$600,000 a year ago.

The government of the Solomon Islands has published a tender for a new mobile phone license, and plans for an independent telecoms regulator.

The Angolan government has announced the sale of 80% of the country's second largest phone company, Movicel to several companies in one of the country's biggest post-war privatisations.

Spain's telecoms regulator, the CMT has approved cuts of between 40% for Telefonica Moviles, Vodafone and Orange and 50% for Xfera for their mobile termination rates.

Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day replace silicon in computer chips.

Vodacom Tanzania subscribers are now able to pre-pay for their electricity via the M-Pesa mobile payments service. This project is a joint venture between Vodacom Tanzania and the electricity generator, Tanesco.

China Unicom is to expand the commercial trials of its new WCDMA based network to a further 168 cities next month.

India is running out of radio spectrum for its existing 2G network operators and has exhausted all the available spectrum in some of its license circles.

The Lao Telecommunication Company (TLC) has launched a 3G phone service, although mobile data speed is limited to just 114Kbps.

LG today has officially revealed its next Chocolate phone LG BL40. The fourth handset of the Black Label Series boasts a 4.0-inch wide screen high-definition LCD with an 800 by 345 pixel resolution, enable 21:9 aspect ratio support for video

Comes from an unofficial HTC Mega windows mobile smartphone, all the current QVGA HTC smartphone users will be pleased to see some goodies extracted from the HTC Mega's ROM. These include a new Manila 2D version, new HTC's ezInput 2.1

Quickoffice today announced the latest update to its Quickoffice Premier 6 product for Nokia Symbian (S60 3.x and S60 5.0) devices. The company's latest release delivers a complete S60 office suite by adding PowerPoint 2007 viewing capabilities to the already

AT&T and Samsung Mobile announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Solstice, a compact candybar phone with full touch screen phone that provides users with an instant connection to social networking, messaging and multimedia features. The Samsung Solstice will be

The worldwide mobile phone market recorded another quarter of year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09). According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 269.6 million units worldwide, down 10.8% from 302.2

Samsung and Intrinsity jointly announced its new ARM Cortex-A8 processor architecture in 45 nanometer (nm) Low Power (LP), low leakage process technology. This Cortex-A8 implementation, code-named Hummingbird, delivers 2000DMIPS at 1GHz. The Hummingbird comes with 32KB each of data and

After more than a year ago Verizon Wireless had released the Samsung Glyde SCH-U940, its successor Samsung Rogue U960 is said to be announced by August 15th this month. Using the latest Samsung TouchWiz 2.0 user interface, the Rogue has

US phones were making most of the news this month, with a strong emphasis on messaging devices.

More details have emerged of LG's new "Chocolate" phone, the LG BL40 which sports a huge widescreen display in a very elegant package.

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