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Keep up with all the latest news affecting European telcos from regulation and financial results to developments in network sharing, billing and innovative new content.

Hasta La Visa As MasterCard Squeezes In With Spanish Orange

MasterCard and Orange have inked a strategic deal to roll out new mobile payment services across Spain.

TeliaSonera claims European 4G LTE roaming first

TeliaSonera has announced it is the first operator to launch 4G LTE roaming in Europe.

NSN announces new Orange and E-Plus 4G LTE wins

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has secured new 4G LTE deals with Orange Communications in Switzerland and the E-Plus Group in Germany.

GSMA reports plot growth prospects and supremacy of data

Two flagship new reports by the mobile operators' industry association GSMA, entitled “The Mobile Economy 2013” and “Connected Life: The impact of the connected life in the next five years” respectively, chart the prospects for both the mobile market worldwide and the wider socio-economic impacts going forwards.

Ericsson and SAP harness Cloud and SaaS for Enterprise M2M

Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson and German software bellwether SAP have inked a new deal to jointly market new cloud-based machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services for enterprise-level businesses, via telcos around the world.

BT to acquire ESPN channels

BT has agreed a deal to buy ESPN's UK and Ireland television channels, as it prepares to launch its new BT Sport TV venture in the summer.

Firefox OS launch blazes trail with mobile partners

In a move set to throw the cat amongst the pigeons in the mobile operating system space, Mozilla has just launched the first commercially-available Firefox OS open source operating system for mobile devices.

Orange launches 4G own-brand smartphone in new range

Orange has launched a trio of new own-label smartphones to add to its existing roster in a bid to consolidate its claimed lead in the European smartphone market.

Deutsche Telekom and IBM team up for smart cities initiative

Deutsche Telekom has announced a collaboration with IBM that aims to help cities save money by using their existing infrastructure better and improving how they plan their resources.