France’s Vivendi, a media company that is also known as a majority owner of French SFR, is reportedly in talks with soon-to-be-launched Indian mobile network operator Datacom Solutions over a possible stake acquisition. According to the Economic Times source, a person close to the matter said: “Officials from Vivendi were in India last week and…

And the latest carrier to join the price wars is… Page Plus Cellular, which is known for its prepaid cell phone service. The company issued another slashing of the prices announcement — actually that’s more minutes for the same price deal, but that’s effectively the price slashing “scheme” as far as I can tell. Anyway,…

U.S. Cellular is joining the price wars by unveiling two new unlimited national calling plans: Unlimited National Individual Plan which could be yours for $69.99 a month, and Unlimited National Family Plan that includes two lines for $119.99/month, whereas up to 3 additional lines could be added for $49.99/month each. And the good news is…

Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog, will be spreading its winter forecast via SMS. In order to receive a text message with information whether we’re get stuck with six more weeks of winter or not, you’ll need to opt-in by sending “Groundhog” to the SMS short-code 247365 before February 2nd. The service is organized by the…

We did expect this to happen – India’s Bharti Airtel has confirmed plans to buy a 70% stake in Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom, currently a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dhabi Group. As part of the agreement, Bharti will make a fresh investment of $300 million to expand Warid’s operations and will have management and board…

Mexico’s telecoms regulator, Cofetel, unveiled the bidding details for its forthcoming radio spectrum auction, saying that 44 companies have registered an interest in the 1850MHz-1990MHz band, while 49 potential bidders brought the paperwork for the 1710MHz-2170MHz auction. The companies that have purchased bidding documents include the incumbent operators — America Movil, Telefonica, Nextel Holdings and…

In the times when we all wait for the first LTE network to launch, one would think no one would waste resources on the EVDO Rev. B network. That’s not the case with Bali-based Smart Telecom, which is officially the first carrier to launch the updated EVDO network. Those unfamiliar should know that EVDO Rev.…

You know Google is calling its handset superphone. That inspired folks of Joy of Tech to come up with a new version of the classic rock-paper-scissors game complicatedly called Smartphone-Superphone-Flip phone-Landline-iTablet. The objective is to beat the other guy by selecting a cooler or more hyped device. Can you win? 🙂