President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has approved a change to Brazil’s telecommunications law, allowing fixed-line telecoms to operate in more than one region of the country. … more

France Telecom still sees Africa as a lucrative frontier market despite the global financial crisis, a company official said on Tuesday. … more

With cost-cutting becoming the key mantra for corporates tackling the current crisis, British Telecom sees new growth opportunities in India by offering communication solutions that will help lower expenses, BT India chairman Arun Seth said here. … more

Zimbabwe’s economy is in the grip of hyperinflation and political turmoil and has all but collapsed. Yet incredibly, wireless networks continue to expand there—albeit it at a slower rate. “We are doing business in Zimbabwe,” says Jan Embro, Johannesburg-based president of Swedish telco equipment maker Ericsson’s operations in sub-Saharan Africa. … more

Japan’s DoCoMo is struggling with sales at home, so it’s betting on the Indian cellular market with a 26% stake in Tata Teleservices … more

Carriers and ISPs will soon face a do-or-die moment for their mobile Internet revenue streams, as increased competition and open networks take away their ability to tightly control what users download and how they experience the wireless Web, said panelists at a Mass Network Communications Council breakfast Thursday morning. … more

In the 1960s, the rock band The Kinks sang, “I’m a lover, not a fighter.”

Today, one industry analyst said the nation’s telecom carriers would benefit from showing some love toward Google Inc. instead of fighting over issues such as Net neutrality, white-space spectrum usage and selling software as a service over carrier networks. … more

President-elect Barack Obama famously made the Web a pillar of his campaign, so it is not surprising that the man called the nation’s first “wired” president has championed the idea of an open Internet. … more

British punters are getting short-changed by telecoms companies because they struggle to get enough information to properly decide which tariff or deal to accept. … more

BT is axing 10,000 workers, or 6% of its global workforce, with several thousand expected to go in the UK as the company looks to cut costs and reduce its reliance on contractors in the face of the global economic downturn. … more