Competition remains fierce though as data plans are expected to be the new prepaid battleground

Hasta la vista, Barcelona! Mobile Business Briefing and Wireless Intelligence review the themes and trends from this year's show

Free Mobile tipped to capture 5% market share but unlikely to trigger price war

Carlos Slim looks to merge mobile/fixed-line assets to create integrated telco with 220M customers

Safaricom market share surpasses 80% as rivals look to emulate M-PESA success

US$300M investment in Warid Telecom marks entry into largest non-Indian market

We analyse the most prolific news of a turbulent twelve months and forecast 2010's likely trends

Mobile operators across the world have significantly reduced opex and capex levels to counter the effects of the global recession

Global 3G connections are now evenly split between CDMA2000- and WCDMA- based technologies

3G forecast to account for 12 percent of Eastern European mobile connections in 2010