Canadian firm Wi-LAN is suing 19 companies – including Apple, HP, Dell, Intel and Motorola – in the US for alleged Bluetooth patent violations, reports Reuters.
Verizon could be trying to patent spot pricing for cloud computing, reports GigaOm. The US Patent and Trademark Office has published a patent application from Verizon on the service.
Indian cellco Vodafone Essar has crossed the 100m subscriber mark, becoming only the fifth operator in the world to reach the milestone in a single country. Others are China Mobile, China Unicom, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications.
Telkom’s net profit last year rose 6.7% to IDR11.33 trillion ($1.3b), on 6.4% higher operating revenues of IDR64.6 trillion. Results were boosted by a IDR972.95 billion foreign exchange gain.
Smartphone sales in China could top 100m units in 2013, making up 40% of global handset sales, according to the China Mobile Research Institute.
Philippines regulator the NTC has asked the Supreme Court to overturn an injunction which prohibits it from allocating a final 10MHz of 3G spectrum.
The number of planned LTE launches has more than doubled to 64 in the past year, said the GSA. It forecasts up to 22 LTE networks may be in commercial operation by year-end.