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According to reports, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is planning to deny carriers a refund of their licence fees if they lose or surrender permits.

Telecom Italia subsidiary, TI Sparkle, has launched four roaming services for mobile operators worldwide.

The popularity of the Blackberry and smartphones, such as the iPhone, are forcing mobile service providers to consider how best to meet the growing demands for rich data services that are straining mobile network capacity and eroding profits. Because their networks were originally designed for the low bandwidth requirements of voice traffic, mobile providers today have only a limited set of options for increasing capacity to accommodate data services. Most of these options are expensive and often time-consuming to deploy, and include adding more leased lines, moving to fiber, increasing the microwave spectrum, and using Ethernet ring.

Lithuania has completed its auction of the 2500-2560MHz and 2620-2680MHz spectrum bands, with Omnitel, Tele2 Lithuania and Bite Lithuania emerging as winners.

The Australian government has reportedly banned equipment vendor Huawei from participating in a tender to build the country’s National Broadband Network (NBN).

Asian provider Pacnet, has launched its second cloud data centre in Hong Kong.

Telenor’s partner in India, Unitech, has agreed “in principle” to sell its stake in Uninor to the Scandinavian carrier, according to newswire, Reuters.

Vinod Kumar, MD and CEO at Tata Communications, has said he expects the launch of the TGN-Gulf cable, announced today, “to play a big role in the growth of the Middle East”.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ (NSN) global head of security solutions, Thorsten Schneider, told Capacity that several operators around the world are “in the process of launching” mobile security services through the vendor’s security suite.

Turkcell Superonline has partnered with solutions platform company, Interoute, to aid network diversity in Turkey.