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The European Commission is expected to propose the creation of a regulatory body with power to separate telecom networks and access providers to foster competition in Europe and reduce costs for customers.

Calling the existing panel of national telecom regulators a 'do-nothing group' that has ignored the interests of consumers in the European Union, the EU's executive arm will call Tuesday for the creation of a European Telecom Market Authority that could push national regulators to tackle large telecommunications companies and their stranglehold over national markets. Read more

Telefonica's nine-month earnings show a growth position which has already been consolidated. via Unstrung

WALL, NJ, November 9 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Centennial Communications Corp. announced today that Chief Financial Officer Thomas J. Fitzpatrick is scheduled to speak at the Credit Suisse Leveraged Finance Media & ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd agreed to suspend its controversial "voluntary resignation" scheme after holding talks with trade unions, the All China Federation of Trade Unions said on Saturday. via People's Daily

By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 11/9/2007 11:35:00 AM Interactive TV vendor OpenTV said it has settled its patent-infringement lawsuit against Liberate Technologies, and as part of the settlement the ... via Multichannel News

“This leads us into the wonderful world of putting services and applications on top of our mobile offerings”

From today the Australian-owned phone company will be offering small and medium-sized business customers a range of mobile packages using Telecom's CDMA mobile network. via NZ Herald

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. fell again Friday, the second straight day of big declines that have lopped about 15 per cent off the value of Canada's most valuable technology company. via The Toronto Star

“With this additional injection, SK's share in Helio will become higher than Earthlink's and it will gain controlling rights in the company.”

Posted November 9th, 2007 at 5:11 PM by Robert Nelson Section: Communications , Mobile , Cellular Providers SK Telecom has invested $70 million into Helio. via Gadgetell

Last week, MetroPCS Communications ended its $4 billion merger deal for Leap Wireless , which thought the deal wasn't good enough . via Blogging Stocks

Technology stocks made an abrupt U-turn, reducing the gains that had been piling up as investors sought refuge from the lending and housing morass weighing on the US economy. via The Taipei Times

“It has seemed for a couple of days here we've been in a correction mode. Today certainly furthers that feeling”

Stocks fell for a third session on Friday after a disappointing outlook from Qualcomm Inc triggered more weakness in technology shares and helped send the Nasdaq down to its biggest weekly point loss since the ... via Reuters

Governor Gregoire has just finished testifying before the Federal Communications Commission on media ownership, blasting the FCC for its pathetic five days of advance notice and condemning the long trend of ... via Northwest Progressive Institute

The Federal Communications Commission, is expected to soon issue a report concluding that the cable industry's market share has passed a key threshold that will give the agency broad power to ensure that there ... via BNET

EchoStar Communications Corp , the second-largest U.S. satellite television operator, on Friday reported a rise in third-quarter profit but said subscriber growth slowed due to worsening economic conditions and ... via MSN Money

“A reasonable jury could conclude that Nacchio dumped his stock on the basis of the dire reports he had just received; the information was material and Nacchio knew as much”

Federal prosecutors in papers filed Friday asked an appellate court to uphold the $52 million insider-trading conviction of former Qwest chief Joe Nacchio, disputing his claim that the evidence was insufficient ... via Daily News

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Japan's biggest phone operator, said first-half profit fell 33 percent as earnings declined at its mobile-phone unit. via Bloomberg.com - Asia

One is a battle-hardened brawler, scarred from decades of heavy punishment - the other a wiry and nimble newcomer with a devastating uppercut. via This Is Money

Motorola, Inc. announced the inauguration of its R&D complex in Wangjing, Beijing. via Appliance

“New Jersey is now among the most-fibered states in the nation”

Two years after it began its rollout in the state, Verizon's FiOS network has passed more than 1 million homes and business in New Jersey, the company announced Thursday, and it expects to pass another 400,000 ... via Digital Pro Sound

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. are canceling their plan to combine the high-speed wireless networks the companies are building, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The complexity of the deal and the departure of Sprint Chief Executive Gary Forsee last month made it too difficult to finalize the deal, the paper said, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

Sprint and Clearwire representatives did not immediately return calls from The Associated Press late Thursday.

Clearwire has a network in some parts of the country based on WiMax technology, which is seen as an cost-effective successor or competitor to cellular broadband. Sprint plans to build a network based on the same technology at a cost of $5 billion through 2010, but Forsee's departure has called the future of those plans into question. Read more