Vodafone and India's largest private sector bank, ICICI, have launched the operator's mobile wallet service M-Pesa to enable people living in some of India's most remote villages to move cash around using their mobile phones.

Last July, TeliaSonera’s head of mobility services product management told European Communications that the Scandinavian operator deserved an eight out of 10 for innovation.

Ericsson has won a deal to provide energy company E.ON Sweden with its smart metering solution.

Operators should not expect the introduction of 4G LTE to restore pricing power to the European mobile industry, according to new research.

TeliaSonera has announced it is collaborating with AppDirect, a cloud-based app marketplace vendor, to aid the launch of its own enterprise app marketplace.

Telefónica España and Alcatel-Lucent have announced the first live network link running at 100 Gbps, 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps using the France-based vendor’s agile optical network technology. 

Fibre deployments have grown by over a fifth in the last 12 months as superfast broadband and IPTV continue their upward spiral.

Portugal Telecom has signed a deal with NEC that will see the two firms collaborate on software defined networking (SDN) and virtualisation technology for data centres and carrier networks.