Telefonica raised its bid late Tuesday for Vivo, the Brazilian mobile operator it shares with Portugal Telecom, to 7.15 billion euros ($8.7 billion) in an attempt to convince PT shareholders to approve the offer at their meeting Wednesday. … more

India’s mobile subscriber growth continues with the country adding 16.3 million new subscribers in May, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). … more

Malaysia telecom operators paid the most for their Ethernet broadband lines in the Asia-Pacific region while their peers in Hong Kong enjoyed the lowest access bills, according to a recent study by the Asia-Pacific Carriers’ Coalition (APCC). … more

Mobile phone operators in Europe are charging close to the highest roaming fees allowed, three years after price caps were first imposed, according to data released Tuesday by the European Commission. … more

Telefónica of Spain and Portugal Telecom are battling for control of their Brazilian wireless joint venture in a tussle that could determine which of the flagship companies realizes its global ambitions. … more

San Francisco, a city that banned the plastic bag, now has waded into the muddy territory of cellphone radiation, setting off a call to arms in the $153 billion wireless industry. … more

Barack Obama on Monday pledged to speed up the availability of high-speed internet across the US by nearly doubling the availability of airwaves during the next 10 years. … more

Tim L. Fields bids for jewelry, art, and antiques on eBay, sometimes in 30 to 40 auctions at a time. The New Orleans attorney spends hours in court and away from his PC, so he gets his shopping done using an eBay application on his iPhone that sends alerts when he’s been outbid or when a sale is a bout to expire. “It’s sort of an addiction,” says Fields, who has used the eBay mobile app to buy a $15,000 set of antique French silver. … more

The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effort that could greatly enhance the ability of consumers to send and receive video and data with smartphones and other hand-held devices. … more

Phenomenally successful, but also imitated, envied and feared - Google is the technological icon of our time. But is its ubiquity and influence a force for good? … more