As the average consumer embraces ever more complex technology, Verizon is offering a series of classes beginning in New York City to show consumers what their PDAs and smartphones can do for them. I'm sure many of our readers aren't in need of such a class - which will teach [...]

German regulator Bundesnetzagentur has imposed new limits on the one-off fees paid by Deutsche Telekom's competitors to access the 'last mile' part of the telco's network. The price for the service will fall 0.2% to 4.1% from 1 July over the next two years. Deutsche Telekom had asked to increase [...]

From today Irish cable broadband provider UPC Ireland will begin rolling out a high speed 20Mbps service to more than 422,000 broadband-enabled households in Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Limerick and Cork, and all other major cabled towns. UPC Ireland, which comprises the businesses of ntl Communications (Ireland) Ltd and Chorus Communication [...]

Orange Botswana has launched a WiMAX-based broadband internet service dubbed Livebox, reports Telecompaper. Speeds of up to 1Mbps are available to initially 90% of residents in Gaborone. The company launched a similar service in Cameroon in April.[...]

Bulgarian daily newspaper Dnevnik is reporting that there are now eight companies which have expressed an official interest in the purchase of the fourth wireless mobile operator licence. Bulgarian WiMAX operator TransTelecom, telecom equipment and service vendor Mobile World, Turkish company Turkcell, Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile and Palladium Capital all obtained [...]

Italian internet service provider Tiscali, which offers dial-up and broadband services in Italy and the UK, says it is still considering a number of takeover offers. The company began its strategic review in April and had been expected to have made a decision by 30 June, but now says it [...]