Network Tech

Bloomberg notes that China’s Huawei has garnered a 10 percent market share in Europe and expects to gain more ground this year.

NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology have again pushed back the signing of a planned merger agreement, reports Telecompaper.

Shares in mobile kit vendor Alcatel-Lucent jumped as much as 16 percent amid speculation that the firm could be bought by a Chinese rival, reports Reuters.

Japanese handset vendors NEC, Hitachi and Casio are reportedly mulling merging their mobile operations in a bid to take on the domestic market-leader, Sharp, reports Dow Jones Newswires.

The Indian government has significantly raised the prices of its 3G licenses and says it plans to start the long-delayed auction within the next three months.

T-Mobile and Huawei have teamed up to offer what is being dubbed as the world's first pay-as-you-go (prepay) Android smartphone.

NTT Docomo has teamed up with five major network vendors to develop specifications for new value-added services delivered via IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology.