Unstrung, citing research from New York-based financial analyst firm Jefferies & Co, reports that Google's Android platform will help the company's mobile search revenue cross the US$500 million mark in 2011, up from roughly US$180 million in FY 2009.

The Telegraph reports that Apple's iPhone will soon be available from all five UK operators after T-Mobile and 3 have discovered a loophole that sees both companies only offering the phone to its most high-value customers.

Vodafone will be stocking the new BlackBerry Storm 2 from RIM later this week, according to Techradar.

US operator T-Mobile has halted sales of the Sidekick device after a server caused customers to lose personal data, reports the BBC. Microsoft subsidiary Danger, which designed Sidekick's software and service, confirmed the disruption.

Thailand's National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has announced that the reserve price for a 3G license has been set in the range of THB3.3 billion to THB6.6 billion (US$100 million to US$200 million) in preparation for an auction later this year, writes the Bangkok Post. Choochart Promprasit, the chairman of the regulator, said the prices would be submitted to the NTC board for approval on Wednesday along with the draft 3G auction rules.

Plans to merge Deutsche Telekom's and France Telecom's UK mobile units could be delayed by a regulatory move which would impose caps on the amount of spectrum operators can own, according to a report in The Guardian.

EU commissioner Viviane Reding has written to the head of Germany's federal network agency, Matthias Kurth, expressing concern over the way the country is set to hold its digital dividend spectrum auction next year.