Indian operator Bharti Airtel reported strong revenue growth for the quarter ended September 30, boosted by 8.2 million new subscribers during the period. … more

Results from France Télécom on Thursday provided more evidence that the economic slowdown had so far spared European telephone operators from the worst. But figures from the network builder Alcatel-Lucent suggested that telecommunications companies were cutting orders. … more

The FCC will tackle several key issues in the telecom industry next week, including the unlicensed use of television white spaces, Verizon’s acquisition of Alltel and the merger of Clearwire with Sprint’s WiMAX division. … more

As the first ‘Google phone’ goes on sale in the UK, The Times’ Technology Reporter shares the results of a rigorous - and clammy-handed - test

My first impression when the G1 was released was that it was not going to be a iPhone killer, and further use of the first ever “Google phone” confirmed my suspicions. Still, it is clearly a smartphone in the same class as Apple’s iconic product. Despite a few niggles, it is quite impressive. … more

As the industry matures, mobile operators won’t be able to count on a flood of new customers to fuel growth, so they must create more value from those they already have—including prepaid ones. … more

Amid Silicon Valley’s obsessive interest in Apple’s iPhones and Google’s Gphones, along with de rigueur ownership of at least one Research In Motion BlackBerry device, it’s easy to forget about the quiet Finnish giant that dominates not just the sale of smartphones but the sale of all mobile devices worldwide. … more

They say when the two elephants fight the grass suffers the reverse is continuing to make sense in Uganda as telecom companies unveil new products to woo subscribers to their networks. … more

A putative agreement between Citigroup and the other controlling shareholders of Brasil Telecom to allow its sale to Oi has dragged back into the public eye a long-running dispute that its protagonists would love to put behind them. … more

Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding noted that giving individual countries and their respective telecom companies too much power over policy would be a mistake.

The European Union won’t get a single “super” telecommunications regulator like the FCC in the U.S., according to current EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding. … more

A senior U.S. lawmaker on Friday joined a growing chorus asking the head of the Federal Communications Commission to explain his plan to open unused airwaves for wireless devices, an approach backed by Google Inc. … more