Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.

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.

MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…

The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics…

China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies like Apple are doubling down on their investments there. But similarly, Chinese mobile players are looking at ways of exporting their products and playing on their brands abroad, and…

One of the most audacious and controversial mergers in mobile history is dead, and give AT&T (NYSE: T) at least a little credit for understanding when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. In the face of two defiant government agencies AT&T had little chance but to call off…

AT&T (NYSE: T) formally ended its $39 billion acquisition bid for T-Mobile Monday, bemoaning the strong opposition from the U.S. government to the deal and noting that the scrapping of the deal will “not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry.”

Confirming earlier reports, T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to sell a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows Phone in the U.S.—a key market for the beleaguered handset maker. Rather than splashing into the U.S. with a high-end, expensive product, Nokia is taking the more humble route and launching with the…

AT&T’s attempt to remake the U.S. wireless landscape with its huge $39 billion deal for T-Mobile may have finally reached the breaking point. AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) have asked the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice to postpone court hearings…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…

Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed that there was no competitive issue between YouMail and T-Mobile, but actually a glitch for some 15,000 users of the app that resulted in battery drain and network strain—a…

Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sales than the rest of the digital music industry put together, they are far from being out of the picture. Today saw 7digital, the UK-based download service…

A big move for Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) today, and something of a seismic shift for the cable industry as it moves away from its fixation on offering its own wireless services to complement their broadband, TV and phone offerings: Verizon has agreed on a deal to pay $3.6 billion…

AT&T (NYSE: T) issued a strongly worded point-by-point critique of the report released earlier this week by the Federal Communications Commission slamming its proposed merger with T-Mobile. Few will likely be moved by its arguments but it’s clear that AT&T is hoping to punch its way off the ropes.

We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year—with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast mobile broadband technology and rolling it out for the masses. The latest reports on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is cooking up could be another boost: Apple…

Could AT&T (NYSE: T) want T-Mobile’s spectrum and network assets so badly as to contemplate arranging a joint venture between it and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom? (NYSE: DT) A report Wednesday suggests AT&T is at least talking about that option, which might be a quite complicated way to save face…

Call this one a not-so-sweet release for AT&T (NYSE: T). The Federal Communications Commission has said has let AT&T drop its FCC application for regulatory approval to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion. But it didn’t stop the FCC from also publishing a detailed staff analysis explaining why it thought the…

Facing long odds to get its acquisition of T-Mobile approved by the government, AT&T (NYSE: T) is preparing to offload a significant amount of the assets it would acquire onto Leap Wireless, according to a report. The move would bolster the smaller carrier but may do nothing to change the…