Deutsche Telekom has taken a step towards shoring up its position in the US after shareholders of MetroPCS Communications rubber-stamped a deal to merge with the German operator's T-Mobile USA division.

France Telecom-Orange posted a fall in revenues and a rise in capital expenditure for the first quarter of 2013 as the operator beefed up investment in fixed and mobile high‑speed broadband services.

Ericsson recorded an 86 percent year-on-year fall in profits for the first three months of the year despite sales rising.

Orange Business Services has announced a major deal to provide manufacturing conglomerate 3M with a multinational unified communications solution.

Telenor has launched the first-ever mobile savings scheme in Pakistan in partnership with Tameer Bank.

KPN has cancelled its dividend for 2013 and 2014 as revenues and profits tumbled in the first three months of the year.

EE has announced it signed up 318,000 4G LTE customers in the first five months of trading, but services revenues continued their decline.

Alcatel-Lucent has announced it has shipped its one millionth VDSL2 vectoring line two and a half years after launching the technology.