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Free reveals extent of its disruption

Free Mobile reveals it has won 4 per cent of the French market in just 80 days

French low-cost 3G operator Free has managed to acquire nearly four per cent of the country’s market share in just 80 days.

CEO, Yota: “Nobody wants to count megabytes watching a movie”

Dennis Sverdlov is the CEO of Yota

Dennis Sverdlov is the CEO of Yota and is speaking on Day Two of the LTE World Summit 2012 taking place on the 23-24 May at the CCIB, Barcelona, Spain. Ahead of the show we speak to him about the challenges the Russian network operator has faced during its transition from WiMAX to LTE, on getting FDD and TD-LTE networks to interoperate and his view on unlimited data tariffs.

LTE Awards 2012 – Category 5 Preview: Most Significant Development for Commercial LTE Network by an Operator

The LTE Awards 2012 are taking place on May 23rd, at the El Xalet, Montjuic, Barcelona.

To whet your appetite for the event here is a preview of Category 5: Most Innovative LTE Commercial Launch.

CSO, Telecom Italia: “LTE can be the foundation for new business models”

Dr. Oscar Cicchetti, is chief strategy officer for Telecom Italia

Dr. Oscar Cicchetti is chief strategy officer for Telecom Italia. Ahead of the LTE World Summit 2012, taking place on the 23-24 May 2012 CCIB, Barcelona, Spain, we speak to him about the telco’s use of spectrum, the future of VoLTE, and where he sees innovation occurring in the industry.

TeliaSonera building optical network for Facebook

TeliaSonera International Carrier is building a fibre network for Facebook in Europe

Nordic carrier group TeliaSonera’s wholesale division and backbone operator, TeliaSonera International Carrier, has announced that it is building a pan-European managed optical network for Facebook. To provide the social network with connectivity between internet exchange points in multiple European cities and its newest datacentre in Sweden.

NTT DoCoMo looks to go global with Buongiorno bid

NTT DoCoMo has submitted a bid for Italian global content player Buongiorno

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has placed an offer to acquire all shares in European mobile internet content and apps provider Buongiorno for €224m The bid has already gained partial acceptance as Mauro Del Rio, owner of approximately 20 per cent of the company’s stock, has entered into an irrevocable undertaking with the operator’s German arm, DoCoMo Deutschland, to tender all of his shares for the offer.

Huawei wins managed services deal with O2 UK

The deals marks Huawei's first such UK deal

Chinese equipment vendor Huawei said Monday that it has won a five year agreement from Telefónica’s UK operation, O2, to manage the operator’s multi vendor core transmission and mobile access network.

LTE Awards 2012 – Category 3 Preview: Most Significant Development for Commercial LTE Network by an Operator

The LTE Awards 2012 are taking place on May 23rd, at the El Xalet, Montjuic, Barcelona.

To whet your appetite for the event here is a preview of Category 3: Most Significant Development for Commercial LTE Network by an Operator.

Cosmote, Greece: “Innovation is starting to increase in mobile”

Konstantinos Halkiotis is principal engineer for Cosmote, the largest mobile operator in Greece.

Konstantinos Halkiotis is principal engineer for Cosmote, the largest mobile operator in Greece. With the LTE World Summit 2012 coming up on the 23-24 May at the CCIB, Barcelona, Spain, we catch up with him to find out what his major concerns and challenges are ahead are ahead of the conference.

UK users not getting advertised broadband speeds

Many UK users are not getting the broadband speeds they are paying for

Broadband users in the UK are getting short-changed when it comes to their internet speeds, a survey has found. A survey by UK newspaper the Guardian online with 3,000 respondents indicated that there is a significant shortfall between the maximum speeds customers are promised and the speeds they actually receive.