The federal government is one step closer to introducing legislative changes to the nation’s failed telecommunications regulatory regime. … more

Prospects brightened for the handset maker last quarter, but much improvement came from cost-cutting. New smartphones will face strong competition from Apple, Palm, and others … more

Strive Masiyiwa has become an expert at walking the fine line between business and politics. He had to. The man once picked by Time magazine as one of its 15 “global influentials” – he regularly rubs shoulders with Nelson Mandela and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in his charity work, and was picked by the Rockefeller Foundation to join its board of trustees six years ago – started his working life in Zimbabwe after the civil war and still has thousands of employees there, despite not having returned to the troubled country for nine years. … more

A report released this week claimed the global ICT sector was showing signs of recovery, with investments in national broadband network plans forming a central component of government efforts to stimulate growth, reports IT News. … more

eBay wants to spin off telephony service Skype into a separate publicly traded company, but something’s standing in the way: Skype’s founders are threatening to take back some of the technology in the midst of a licensing dispute. … more

Large parts of West Africa are struggling to get back online following damage to an undersea cable. … more

Three of Europe’s biggest telecoms firms have reported falling profits, but the results came in ahead of analysts’ expectations. … more

Baltimore, the home of the hapless Orioles and a favorite backdrop for so-called realistic TV crime dramas, just happens to be one of the most wired cities in the country. It ascended to the throne after Clearwire introduced WiMax service last winter, giving the city a preview of what the company is slowly building throughout the country. … more

France Télécom’s revenue for the first half fell 0.5 percent year on year, even though customer numbers grew by 6.6 percent, it reported Thursday. … more

Telecom is offering to more than halve mobile termination rates. But the full reduction won’t come until 2015. … more