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Pakistani police decrees mobile ban on New Year's Eve
Karachi residents will not have mobile services for a 12-hour window, as the police tries to prevent a planned terrorist attack on the city.
Huawei accused of supplying HP equipment to Iran
One of Huawei's partners appeared to have been setting up proposals for Iranians to buy HP equipment, despite US sanctions that ban the export of computer equipment to Iran.
China eyes 100M new 3G subscribers in 2013
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology wants the growth of Internet users to boost revenues of the local telecommunications and software industries.
Aussie telcos bolster networks for record New Year texting spree
Australian telecommunications companies Telstra and Optus have upgraded their mobile networks in response to what they believe will be record numbers of customers sending text messages over New Year's Eve.
India introduces new broadband service penalties
Telecom regulator says Indian broadband providers will be fined up to INR 1 million per service parameter if a false compliance report is filed, and INR 50,000 for failure to meet service benchmarks.
S. Korean telcos launch mobile communications platform
SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus release joint integrated platform, which touts the ability to allow users to message, call and send files to other subscribers regardless of network or device.
India's Viom Networks eyes IPO in 2013
Mobile tower company says it will kickstart initial public offering proceedings in January, and is not worried by poor response from retail investors in Bharti Infratel's IPO.
BT ordered to repay £94.8m to comms providers
BT is facing nearly £100m of repayments after Ofcom concluded the telecoms company had overcharged providers such as BSkyB, TalkTalk and Virgin Media for its ethernet services.
Poor network experiences put S'pore telcos under pressure
Negative consumer feedback on service quality is piling on for mobile operators and will only worsen over the festive period, but telcos deny seeing more complaints and pledge to continue beefing up their networks.
Optus jumps on contactless payments bandwagon
Optus will trial NFC technology for mobile payments with Visa, ahead of a full launch in 2013.
The Apocalypsecast
On the final Technolatte podcast for 2012, the Australian team looks at the big tech stories of the year.
Vodafone seeks license extension in India
Telco is hoping to extend its 900MHz bandwidth operating license in three telecom zones by another 10 years, despite the Indian government's intention to re-auction the spectrum once licenses expire.
Telecom NZ appoints new Gen-i CEO
Telecom New Zealand has appointed ex-Vodafone executive Tim Miles as the new CEO of its IT business unit Gen-i.
Deutsche Telekom CEO stepping down as CFO steps up
Deutsche Telekom CEO's has asked for permission from the board to terminate his contract by the end of next year.
Indonesia finally kicks off auction for more 3G space
After being postponed four times, the auction process for the last two blocks of the 2.1 gigahertz frequency finally began last Friday, which will help telcos relieve network strain.