In a move which apparently is part of Singapore Telecommunications' (SingTel) investment in new technology, the company - along with software provider Amdocs - has opened a tech development center in Israel.

China is set to deploy the world's biggest 4G LTE network in the next six-month period; and, by 2013-end, more than one hundred cities and 500 million people will be covered by the high-speed network in the country.

Addressing the audience at the industry's annual forum, Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday the top-notch telecoms official of the European Union (EU) - the EU data commissioner Neelie Kroes - outlined plans for a unified mobile market in Europe.

In a highly noteworthy move which will pave the way for travellers across East Asia to use their mobile handsets for travel as well as payments, common standards for touch-card technology have recently been agreed upon by three bigwig mobile operators in China, Japan, and Korea.

New Vodafone technology - dubbed Global SIM - will apparently open up international markets for New Zealand-based security and surveillance firm Mi5 Security; making the Kiwi exporter the first company in the country to offer North America and Europe connectivity for all its devices with one single SIM card in each device.

Former Vodafone and France Télécom executive, Michel Combes, has been hired by the struggling French-American group Alcatel-Lucent, for steering the loss-making telecom equipment maker towards sustained profits.

In an evident attempt to support the ever increasing mobile data traffic across Australia, telecom provider Telstra has recently announced a new network strategy under which it intends ramping up its 2G network spectrum to carry 4G traffic.

In a Tuesday statement, Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vodafone New Zealand and Australia's Telstra, for building a $US60 million trans-Tasman submarine cable which would link New Zealand with Australia and would strengthen the country's Internet connectivity with Asia.