A new report from Juniper Research has found that mobile network operators face losing nearly one-quarter of revenues – nearly $300 billion – to a combination of fraud and billing error by 2016. However, it argues that through the implementation of revenue assurance and fraud management solutions, network operators will be able to substantially reduce the scale of potential global leakage by more than $250 billion by that time.

Thailand inched closer to allocating 3G licences this week when the regulator gave the green light to a draft auction framework for 2.1-GHz spectrum.

Mobile operators worldwide should be preparing for an impending surge in traffic over the next several years,  with mobile users in 2016 consuming an average of 6.5 times as much video, over eight times as much music and social media, and nearly ten times as much games than in 2011.

Google has long sought to index the world's information -- and it's now taking things a step farther with an effort to create "a database of everything in the world." And it's bringing this effort to your search results pages.

Nokia Corp. is still in talks with Permira over the sale of its luxury mobile handset business Vertu, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires on Monday.

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has placed an offer to acquire all shares in Italian mobile internet content and apps provider Buongiorno for €224m.

Facebook will increase the size of its initial public offering by 25 percent, a source familiar with the matter said, and could raise as much as $16 billion as strong investor demand for a share of the No.1 social network trumps debate about the company's long-term potential to make money.

Developing appropriate pricing and differentiation strategies for 4G services will be a critical challenge for operators in Asia wanting to monetise investments in 4G as advanced mobile networks are rolled out across the region, according to a new report, ‘The developed Asia–Pacific telecoms market: trends and forecasts 2011–2016’, from global telecoms and media specialists Analysys Mason.

 India has named Rahul Khullar the next chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, a government official said Monday.

As widely expected, LightSquared filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company reported assets and debts each exceeding $1 billion.