Spanish telecoms group Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) reported a first quarter 22 percent rise in profits, boosted by its Latin American mobile phone units. Net income rose to 1.54 billion euros…

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LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…

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German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) reported stable first-quarter results with adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of 4.7 billion euros ($7.28 billion), virtually unchanged from the…

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Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn’t it? In recent weeks, both Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Qualcomm have said the service isn’t getting the take up it had expected, with…

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Will Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel find a buyer to get it out of its troubles? So says Der Spiegel (via Reuters), the German magazine: Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), owner of…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has agreed to pay workers 200 million euros ($315 million)--130 million euros ($205 million) more than it originally offered--in compensation for the closure of its factory in…

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T-Mobile Germany has slashed the cost of an 8GB iPhone to a mere 99 euros ($156) from 399 euros ($628), in what analysts are saying is an attempt to clear…

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German mobile operator E-Plus is shutting down its i-Mode service as of 1 April, one of the last major European networks to abandon the Japanese import, TelecomTV reports. Germany’s third…

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-- BlinxBox Gets Fremantle Content: Digital video start up BlinkBox has struck a content deal with RTL-owned Fremantle Media, that will give BlinkBox users access to its library of shows,…

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A slew of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) announcements around mobile today: — Yahoo onePlace: First up, the search giant has come up with a new application that helps consumers manage all…

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Fourth quarter earnings are out today for Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT). Europe’s largest telecoms group reported a loss of 757 million euros ($1.14 billion) for the period ending December 2007,…

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Germany’s T-Mobile will cut data roaming charges and offer “enhanced web services” in a bid to boost data revenues, according to Reuters. At the MWC T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan told…

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Building off the success of its online developer platform, Facebook launched a mobile platform for wireless carriers today, according to IDG. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is already using it in Germany…

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Five European mobile phone operators announced today that they are cutting the cost of surfing the mobile internet while abroad, saying they had accepted the European Commission’s challenge to give…

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-- KPN Chief Calls iPhone “Useless”: Ad Scheepbouwer, chief executive of Dutch telecoms company KPN has called the iPhone “pretty useless,” gloating that its sales in Germany have done little…

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Europe used to be thought of as being leagues ahead of America when it came to all things mobile, but apparently, for wireless social networks that want to make money,…

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German iPhone users consume about 30 times more data than mere mortals, T-Mobile says (via Unstrung). “The average Internet usage for an iPhone customer is more than 100 MBytes. This…

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Nearly four months after the departure of former head Lucy Hood, mobile entertainment firm Jamba has appointed Nokia (NYSE: NOK) veteran Mauro Montanaro as its new CEO. Forty-three year old…

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T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), has said that in Germany, it has sold about 70,000 Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhones since launch 11 weeks ago. These numbers come…

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Mobile instant messaging (IM) adoption in Europe is expected to triple, despite network operator fears that IM will eat into the revenues of their lucrative text messaging services, according to…

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Germany has awarded the nationwide platform for DVB-H to Mobile 3.0, a JV between Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD), which has been running a DMB service since 2006, and Neva Media,…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced plans to close its Bochum, Germany plant by the middle of this year and may cut up to 2,300 jobs, citing lack of competitiveness at…

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Updated below: Facebook is continuing to raise money, though this one seems to be a relatively smaller amount and mainly strategic for European expansion: it has taken an undisclosed amount…

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Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Base, a brand it had imported from Belgium. Indeed,…

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Mobile is the lynch pin of the communications sector, driving its growth and accounting for 53 percent of total telecoms revenues, according to the UK regulator Ofcom in their exhaustive…

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