European Commission seems happy but rival firms could yet put a spanner in the works.

The Google Phone is very real and will almost certainly be sold in Europe during the first quarter of next year.
Online reports are suggesting the phone, believed to be called the Nexus One, will be available in America as soon as the start of January. However, a keynote speech by Eric Schmidt, Google CEO and [...]

The merger of Orange and T-Mobile is almost certain to cast further doubt over the speed of mobile broadband roll-out plans and further delays are possible if 3 were also bought.
That is the conclusion of Matt Hatton, Principle Analyst at Analsys Mason. He has been looking at the current consolidation in the UK mobile market [...]

The UK’s third and fourth biggest mobile phone companies are merging, creating a British telco juggernaut that would become the country’s biggest network. While the Orange and the T-Mobile brands will survive as separate entities until at least 2012 under the terms of the deal, the aim is for £445 million per year to be cut from their combined expenditure by 2014. Meanwhile, the move is another setback for the slow-moving negotiations on the role mobile broadband with play in Digital Britain.

Vodafone and O2 can breathe a sigh of relief. A Government spectrum farming report has decided that neither company should be forced to give up any of its most valuable mobile broadband spectrum. However, the carrot of spectrum released by switching off analogue tv in 2012 remains in front of the pair to tempt them [...]

O2 has kicked off a mobile broadband promotions war which will dominate broadband deals this summer and early autumn.
Until the end of October customers taking out its mobile broadband product for £20 per month will now get free home broadband for a year as long as they live with the O2 Home Broadband Network, which [...]