While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…

Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will be playing a key role, and so, it seems, will carriers.

Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here.

As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just the last two days, no less than four major mobile players have been linked with new initiatives around NFC technology, the wave-and-pay system that its supporters hope…

We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is preparing an official submission to the EU against a proposed joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile operators to enable mobile payments and other…

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket—centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit—and with today’s results it’s easy to see why: the company today released some dismal results for some of its legacy businesses—namely in its home market of Spain—which have resulted in…

T-Mobile has Bobsled in the U.S., and now O2 in the UK is jumping into the Internet-calling waters with a new service called O2 Connect.

Only one day left to iPhone news nirvana, and a lot of leaks are coming through about who will get to sell the device—and what, exactly, that device will be. Today, a new report out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech takes that one step further to lay out which operator will…

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too. The company has announced that it is buying Israel-based mapping and location-based services company Telmap. The move comes as there are signs…

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), the multinational operator with mobile networks spanning across Europe and Latin America, is now fully focused on squeezing more revenue out of its substantial assets. After a month in which it formed a new business unit, Telefonica Digital, to further this strategy, the operator is rolling out…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Apple looks like it has a date for its much-anticipated new product announcements: October 4, say sources. It will be the first time an announcement day will be led by Tim Cook, who took over from Steve Jobs as…

Do mobile operators have what it takes to be a killer force in the mobile advertising industry? Telefonica’s UK mobile operator O2 has recently released some figures that—while they might not be a sign of operators definitely winning in that space—certainly show they are out to be a contender against…

Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2 in the UK will be no different… Before those operators have even applied for clearance from the regulators, the UK’s fourth-biggest operator, Hutchison…

The operator Telefonica—owner of many mobile and fixed businesses spanning from Latin America to Europe—is getting its digital house in order. The company has announced it is reorganizing a disparate group of digital assets into a single business unit, to be called Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) Digital, and transferring 2,500 employees…

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could overtake Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in smartphone shipments by the end of this year. Also, how Apple and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) compare in user interfaces. (via Digitimes; ZDNet)

If Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gets the green light to buy Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility for $12.5 billion, one area where the deal could be especially significant is in Europe, where Motorola has all but disappeared after once enjoying a healthy share of the mobile device pie.

—Everything Everywhere: Mark Horrobin is the director of transformation for Everything Everywhere, the merged JV between T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, to oversee further integration of the operators into a single business. He comes from Tesco Telecom, where he had been COO until earlier this year.

All change in the UK mobile world: Tom Alexander, the CEO of Everything Everywhere—the mobile operator JV between France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile—has resigned and is getting replaced by Olaf Swantee, a longtime France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) operative.

The crowded world of mobile local offer apps has today sworn in another citizen. O2 Priority Moments, from the Telefonica-owned mobile operator O2 UK, is a location-based mobile advertising service that will offer Groupon-style deals on food, shopping and other services based on a user’s location.