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Telenor makes Wikipedia available to 135M customers in Asia, Europe The 3-year partnership between Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation will cover users in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Montenegro and Serbia.

MWC 2012: Bharti Airtel lags behind in climate leadership in Africa Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel lacks green agenda in its investments in Africa, Greenpeace Tuesday stated in its briefing paper on International Green Telecom Leadership.

Tata DOCOMO, Extent bring 24X7 mobile gaming service to India In an effort to satisfy the growing demand of Indian gamers for more features and sophistication from their favorite mobile games, Tata and Exent have partnered to bring the first mobile game subscription service to India.

Uninor adds record 2.49 million new GSM users in January 2012 The total subscriber base of the company not stands at 38.79 million. Uninor is a joint venture between Norway-based Telenor and India's Unitech Limited.

India Telecom Tracker: Feb. 27, 2012 India's state-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has launched three tablets at a price of $66.23, $224.15, $275.12 respectively.

Spectrum pricing issue a crucial missing piece in telecom sector: ICRA The issue of spectrum pricing, which has wide implications for the future funding requirements of telecom service providers is still a crucial piece that is missing in the Indian telecom sector, says the latest ICRA Ratings report.

Ethernet switch market records Q4 revenues of $6B The worldwide Ethernet switch market reached record revenues of $6.06 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011 (4Q11), representing strong growth of 5.5% year over year and 1.2% quarter over quarter.

Now, Bharti Airtel in legal trouble too? South Africa-based Econet seeks $3 billion in damages from Bharti Airtel. The dispute is over ownership of its subsidiary Airtel Nigeria. However, Bharti Airtel states that they have not received any notice.

Apple, Google, smartphone makers sign privacy accord Google said in a statement that under the California agreement, Android users will have

Samsung Galaxy SII sales tops 20 mn Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which emerged as the world's top smartphone maker last year, said today that sales of its flagship Galaxy S II topped 20 million handsets since its launch in April last year.

LightSquared to lay off 45% of workforce The company said it will cut 45% of its 330-employee workforce, according to a news report.

Report: Telcos lost $13.9B in 2011 due to social messaging The increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers on their smartphones cost telecom operators $8.7 billion lost SMS revenues in 2010 and $13.9 billion in 2011, according to a new report by O**m.