UK's Top 5 Mobile Networks Appoint IAB As Trade Body For Mobile Advertising

Google has finally completed its $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility after regulators in China gave the deal a seal of approval over the weekend. Having announced the bid back in August 2011, it has taken nearly a year of...

In a move that's reminiscent of the pre-internet bubble era that was awash with free offers, a MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) has built a business model based on paying people to watch promotional videos using data...

Good news for Chinese Apple fans: an iPhone compatible with China Mobile's CDMA-2000 network just received a network access license, according to the website for China's Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center. That...

South Korea based MapleStory was at the receiving end of a cyber attack last week and personal information of more than three-quarter users of the website have been put at risk. Usernames, IDs, passwords, as well as residential...

AT&T is presenting arguments for why it should be allowed to acquire T-Mobile, a move that some fear would make At&T to large, hurting consumers.One of AT&T's major points has been that the company is heading...

UK telecom watchdog Ofcom has launched a consultation into making calls to 0800 numbers from mobile phones free of charge.The regulator also plans to improve the way in which directory enquiry and voting call charges are...

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has confirmed that it will be helping to review the marketing strategies utilised by mobile broadband providers.The regulator's review will focus on mobile operators and network...

O2 has piled pressure on Orange, which has just started selling the iPhone, by cutting the price of the tethering option and giving free landline ADSL broadband to its existing iPhone customers with tethering bolt on in a deal...

A recent survey has revealed that as many as two-thirds of the mobile broadband users are exactly not happy with the speed of the mobile broadband they are receiving. The poll, conducted by the comparison website Broadband Genie,...

Mobile advertising seems all set for a remarkable boost, as the mobile industry association, better known as GSM Association (GSMA), announced its intention to sell mobile traffic data to commercial parties by the second half of...

Orange UK has apparently managed to get in bed (sort of) with Nokia; the info slipped past Guardian's Richard Wray who said that "Both the G1 and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic - which by the way will be sold in the UK by...

AOL today announced that Camille de Stempel, its Director of Consumer Advocacy and Privacy for AOL Europe, has been appointed to the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, chaired by government ministers.De Stempel has been...

While today's launch of T-Mobile's dream is significant, it is only the first handset to come out of the Open Handset Alliance mould and although it gives a good idea of what Android can do, it barely scratches the surface of its...

Advertising has turned out to be the major source of generating revenues for the Telecom Carriers across the globe, a research from the analyst firm Gartner revealed. The industry is all set to generate revenues worth USD12...

After a couple of years that have seen the US cellcos - and some landline telcos - offering free or low-cost WiFi services as a sweetener to keep punters happy, it seems the carriers are baulking at the idea of offering free...