Japanese operator NTT Docomo has unveiled ‘Xi,’ the brand name for its forthcoming LTE service due for launch in December.

Motorola shares were up by as much as 3 percent in premarket trading this morning after the US vendor reported better-than-expected revenue and device shipments. Earnings were boosted by the long-awaited return to growth of its mobile devices segment, which swung to a US$87 million profit due partly to the proceeds of a US$228 million legal settlement

France Telecom has fixed its shareholder dividend for the next three years after a reporting a solid set of financial numbers for the first half of the year.

Spanish and Latin American operator Telefonica has reported a 16 percent rise in second-quarter net profit as revenue growth in Latin America compensated for a weaker Spanish market.

Russian-based Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has switched on LTE in Uzbekistan, becoming only the second operator in the world to commercially launch the next-generation mobile technology.

South Korea’s Samsung has revealed the most popular downloads from its own application store, Samsung Apps.

Apple is investigating reports that the latest iPhone operating system causes problems for users of the iPhone 3G, after a series of complaints on Apple support forums and technology blogs, notes the Wall Street Journal.

Light Reading Mobile reports that Sprint Nextel’s CEO Dan Hesse made a commitment to stick with unlimited wireless data plans for the foreseeable future on his company's second-quarter earnings call Wednesday morning, even as rival AT&T has implemented caps on its 3G offerings and Verizon Wireless is considering a tiered system of billing as it launches LTE services.

The mobile telecom equipment market will grow 7 percent to US$40.3 billion in 2011 after shrinking for two years in a row, helped by investments in new LTE networks, according to a Reuters report that cites iSuppli research.

Amazon.com said its best-selling Kindle device was currently out of stock, leading one Internet analyst to surmise the online retailer was poised to launch a new version, according to a Reuters report.