The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has suspended a decision taken on May 25, 2009, on the monopoly status of eight large Ukrainian communications operators on the market of phone connection fees in their own networks.

The company Farimex has requested an investigation by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) concerning Norway's Telenor.

The number of mobile communications subscribers in March 2009 fell by 0.36% or by 198,000 subscribers in Ukraine, to 55.48 million, according to a report by analysts from the iKS Consulting company.

Already jittery investors were alarmed on Thursday when a Norwegian cellphone company announced that a Siberian court had seized its multibillion-dollar investment in a Russian joint venture and would turn it over to a company thought to be allied with a Russian oligarch. The decision signaled an escalation in a long-running dispute between the Norwegian company, Telenor, and the Alfa Group, an alliance of Russian businessmen.

life:) has finished the quarter and the year with healthy results demonstrating the positive growth dynamics despite the financial turmoil that hit the country in Q4 2008.

Telenor ASA, the Norwegian phone company with over 160 million wireless customers, has no plans to exit Ukraine.

The net losses of OJSC Ukrtelecom in 2008 were UAH 1.526 billion.

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has reported dramatically lower quarterly profits as it struggles to combat the economic downturn.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Spain's telecommunications operator Telefonica said Wednesday it will provide a complete package of services for Deutsche Post's courier company DHL from a new center in Prague in a deal worth -350 million ($453 million).

Vienna, January 16, 2009 – Kapsch TrafficCom AG (ISIN AT000KAPSCH9), listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange in the prime market segment, today acquired 11,047,017 shares in Q-Free ASA at a price of NOK 10.00 per share, representing 20.47% of the outstanding shares in Q-Free ASA.