Vodafone Qatar, the country’s second mobile network operating licensee, has announced that it intends to appoint HSBC Middle East and Qatar National Bank to lead manage its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The start-up joint venture, currently 51% owned by the UK’s Vodafone Group, with the rest held by the [...]

According to Reuters, Dutch telco KPN has said that Germany's antitrust authorities have launched an investigation into cellcos T-Mobile and Vodafone for allegedly abusing their dominant market positions. The Federal Cartel Office began its proceedings following a complaint from KPN, which owns rival operator E-Plus, according to a statement from [...]

Germany's telecoms regulator plans to delay until next year an auction for a second tranche of UMTS frequencies. The Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) had originally planned to hold the auction early this year, but said it was postponing the sale due to the ‘meticulous planning’ required to prepare the auction and to [...]

The new chief executive of Polish copper group KGHM says there is no plan to sell its 19.6% stake in cellco Polkomtel. ‘Polkomtel looks like a good medium-term investment, and I will recommend not exiting Polkomtel,’ Chief Executive Miroslaw Krutin said in a television interview. KGHM and several other state-controlled [...]

Luca Passani is a mobile tech guru and the guy behind WURFL - if you don't know, WURFL is an open source project that allows mobile developers to identify which mobile phone a mobile web page is being viewed on. In layman's terms (the only way I understand it), this [...]

Yesterday's announcement of new international calling plans available from Skype probably set a record for generating press traffic about Skype. Certainly my ":Skype" keyword feed in FeedDemon has been gone off the end. Most of the reports were simply rehashes of the original two press releases (Global and North America). [...]