DUBLIN company i-conX, one of the world’s fastest-growing dedicated interconnect specialists, is expanding rapidly overseas.

Dublin company i-conX Solutions has secured a significant contract with major Russian GSM mobile telecoms operator Tele2 Russia, it was announced today.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone today raised guidance for full-year revenues after posting a forecast-beating interim profits haul.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone has expanded its presence in the broadband market with the £537m (€776m) acquisition of firms in Spain and Italy, it emerged today.

A price war was looming in the broadband market today after Carphone Warehouse offered “free” high-speed internet access to its British landline customers.

Listen to analysts talk about the full potential of broadband internet access and it is easy to see why Carphone Warehouse is plotting an assault on the market.

Carphone Warehouse is set to launch a landgrab on the UK broadband market which will provoke a price war for high-speed internet access, it was reported today.

Carphone Warehouse reported another strong Christmas today after connections lifted 33% on a year ago and it continued to build its TalkTalk service.

SWEDISH telecoms operator Tele2 quit the Irish market yesterday when it offloaded its business here to The Carphone Warehouse group just a year after setting up.

Carphone Warehouse today doubled the number of customers using its TalkTalk fixed-line services by spending up to £154m (€226m) on acquiring Onetel.

Tele2 has boosted its presence in Ireland by switching a call centre from India to Dublin, creating 26 new jobs.

TELECOMS firm EsatBT said its revenues rose by 25% in the six months to end September as more consumers and businesses switched their phone services to the British-owned firm.

COMPETITION in the phone market hotted up again yesterday as Esat BT began a new push to grab a share of the country’s 1.2 million residential customers.

Swedish telecoms company Tele2 AB is to launch a fixed-line service in Ireland today.

Carphone Warehouse has offered free calls to users of its fixed-line service in the latest phase of Britain's telcoms price war.