T-Mobile to buy Orange
Link: EU Clears T-Mobile Netherlands To Buy Orange Netherlands
.. in Holland at
revenue
$300m start in Iraqi mobile licence auction
Link: Iraq sets $300 million bid price in mobile licenses | Technology | Reuters
US operators make $5.85bn from mobile data in three months
Link: US punters gobbling up mobile data | The Register
The Register is
Thieves steal mobile phone tap and call log records
Link: Database of top-secret police phone taps stolen – Independent Online Edition >
"When's a mobile not a mobile?" asks UK taxman
According to telecom expense management consultant Aurora Kendrick James, the taxman might
Ticket-Text launches low-cost concert, sports, theatre tickets for Ryanair's 52m customers
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Hot new Dublin mobile startup, Ticket-Text goes
Global mobile data brings in over $10bn in Q1 2007
Link: Global demand for mobile data services soars – vnunet.com
Analysts Informa
Vodafone Q1 KPIs: £8.3billion revenue, 9.1m new customers
Vodafone are steaming away with what looks to be a pretty good
"Systemic failure of compliance" for TV prem services
Link: Ayre inquiry reveals systemic failure by broadcasters | Ofcom
UK communications regulator
Mobile payments will reach $22bn by 2011
P2P fund transfers and mobile payments will generate transactions worth $22bn by
O2 to get UK iPhone gig
Link: BBC NEWS | Business | O2 ‘to get iPhone contract in UK’
The
UK customs arrest 10 in mobile VAT fraud
Link: Ten People Arrested in Mobile Phone Tax Fraud
UK customs officers