EC Confirms Inquiry Into Possible Telecom Collusion

Europe’s five biggest telecoms could face an investigation into possible collusion.
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Vodafone Becomes Latest Carrier to Set Up Shop in Silicon Valley

Vodafone’s new Redwood City facility aims to identify partners and have them in trials on one of the company’s networks within nine months.
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IBM Offers Its Cloud To Watch The UK's Electrical Grid

Big Blue teams up with the British telecom giant Cable & Wireless to join the race to provide UK homes and businesses with smart electrical meters.

Vodafone: Texting Still Down in Egypt, Except for Government Propaganda

The U.K.-based wireless carrier says the government hasn’t allowed text messaging to be turned back on, and that it has been forced to send pro-government messages to customers. Plus, more updates from Abdulla in Cairo.

90 Percent of AT&T iPhone Subs Still Under Contract

A metric worth mulling as AT&T’s previously monogamous relationship with Apple shifts into polyamory: 90 percent of the carrier’s iPhone users are still under contract.

IPhone Exclusivity Added to Endangered Species List

The iPhone exclusivity deals are fast becoming an anomaly, with Apple inking more multi-carrier distribution agreements in markets it first entered with a lone partner. The latest to undergo the transformation: Germany.

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Vodafone's Chief Pushes to Untangle Wireless Giant

At a meeting with Dutch employees here last week, Vodafone Group PLC Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said the wireless giant is too much like a lumbering jumbo jet stuck on the runway: “A little bit too heavy, not fast enough.”

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Vodafone Sale of China Mobile Stake Highlights Tense Ties

Vodafone Group PLC’s $6.65 billion sale of its stake in China Mobile Ltd. highlights the challenges faced by foreign carriers looking to link up with Chinese telecommunications companies and underscores the reduced need for foreign capital at China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers.

IPhone Exclusivity Ending in Germany

Germany is the last major European market with a single iPhone carrier. But not for much longer. Deutsche Telekom-owned carrier T-Mobile’s iPhone exclusivity deal with Apple is nearing expiration and has not been extended.

Liveblogging Microsoft’s “Project Pink” Party–Plus Video! Will It Be Phonetastic?

All Things Digital will be liveblogging today’s Microsoft “social” event beginning about 10 am PT. It is reportedly about new mobile devices the social giant will release in an effort to play catch-up with Apple and Google. So, grab some coffee, pop that waffle in the toaster and keep this tab open to get the info as it breaks live from San Francisco’s Mighty event space.

iPhone Strains O2′s London Network

O2 Suffers iPhone Drought

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