GOOGLE, Apple and Facebook must help pay for the billions of dollars of network investments needed for their bandwidth-hogging services, phone operators say.

Queues stretching down streets appeared outside Cuba’s phone shops as the government allowed people to sign up for mobile phone services for the first time.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone will unveil a slight increase in annual underlying earnings to £12bn (€17.7bn) today, despite tough times for the firm in UK and European markets.

Wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) is to be made available to passengers at Cork Airport in a new deal between BT and the airport.

AIB shares rose to their highest level in six years yesterday after the bank was admitted to a prestigious European share index.

The market for mobile phone operating systems could be destabilised by a new alliance of mobile operators.

War worries remained paramount on investors’ minds this week. The fears were compounded with warnings of terrorist attacks on targets in the US and UK.

Baltimore Technologies, which is a provider of e-security, has announced that I.T. Telecom S.p.A. has selected Baltimore UniCERT(TM) to provide Telecom Italia Group and its customers with public-key infrastructure (PKI) security applications.

Dublin company Openet has signed a three-year framework contract under which it will fulfill Orange SA's data handling needs for both post and pre-paid multimedia services.