Telecom
European Union bans roaming charges after June 2017
01 Jul 2015
Telecommunications companies in the EU would be banned from charging premiums for roaming services starting June 2017
Father of SMS, Matti Makkonen dies, aged 63
01 Jul 2015
Though Matti Makkonen is widely credited with having fathered SMS technology, he himself said that the development was a joint effort and not his sole work
Airtel ranked world's 3rd-larget mobile firm
30 Jun 2015
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator by subscribers and revenues, has emerged as the third-largest mobile operator in the world behind China Mobile and Vodafone Plc
Bharti joins OneWeb, invests $500 million to buy minority stake
25 Jun 2015
Airtel hopes to leverage the investment by becoming a preferred distributor of OneWeb’s satellite-based internet services across its operations in 20 countries in Asia and Africa
Canada’s Rogers Communications acquires Mobilicity
25 Jun 2015
Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers Communications will acquire smaller rival Mobilicity and its unused AWS-1 spectrum for $100 million to boost the speed and quality of its services
