Telenor and Nokia today announced cooperation on mobile services to accelerate the adoption of new Internet services on the Ovi services platform provided by Nokia.

Verizon has agreed to purchase Alltel for $28.1 billion, allowing private equity investors TPG and Goldman to flip their purchase just seven months after taking the wireless telecom firm private in a $27.5 billion deal.

Today at the GSM Association (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Marketplace — Americas, Microsoft Corp. announced the Connected Services Accelerator Program, a series of projects designed to incubate, and ultimately commercialize, new types of consumer, business and mobile services through collaboration with independent software vendors (ISVs), developers and operators.

China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) jointly announced on Wednesday the country's mobile roaming service charges will be lowered starting from March 1 amid fervor of consumer expectation to entirely abolish them.

Orange and Nokia have signed a memorandum of understanding in order to partner on value added services such as location based services, maps, mobile advertising and gaming. There is a strong intent to follow with a strategic partnership by mid 2008.

At Mobile World Congress, IBM (NYSE: IBM) debuted mobile services of today and the future – from social networking to the built-in security and service quality that telecom customers expect in a digital world.

ip.access,the market leader in picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions, and Mavenir Systems an innovator in service delivery network technology, today announced a partnership to deliver new “femtozone” services for mobile phones.

Social networking comes a close second as users demand to ‘poke’ on the go. Email tops poll as most requested mobile service.

Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator by revenue and Nokia the world's largest handset manufacturer, have agreed to launch an integrated suite of Vodafone services combined with Nokia Ovi Services on a range of Nokia handsets.

3ple-Media today announces that their ground breaking MercuryTM Mobile Multimedia solution has been selected as one of two ‘best of breed’ finalists competing for a chance to win the GSM Asia Mobile Innovation Award for the ‘Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or Platform’. 3ple-Media was selected as a finalist from a shortlist of 50 ‘Top Innovators’ identified by the GSM Association (GSMA).

New research reveals clear opportunities for location based services in the UK, Spain and US

Comneon GmbH, a leading supplier of advanced software solutions for mobile communication handsets, and Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading supplier of service provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, today announced that they will join forces in developing, testing and provisioning some of the most advanced consumer-ready mobile services in the world.