France Telecom sued over Mobilcom
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France Telecom has been sued for $5.74bn (4.26bn euros; 2.99bn) in damages by its former German partner.
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Fledgling mobile firm Truphone faces network giant T-Mobile in court over calls made via wi-fi networks.
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A French lawyer acting for 100 small shareholders said on Monday he had sued French Societe Generale  over the way it unbundled billions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent share deals earlier this week.
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Accused of 'twisting the truth' Mobile operators have been accused of "twisting the truth" by a major European consumer lobby group investigating roaming charges.â¦
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A lawsuit by more than 10,000 shareholders against German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom is to begin in April, the Financial Times Deutschland said Friday.
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Mobile phone operators face a new attack on their revenue in Europe after the UK telecoms regulator expressed concern about "extremely high" prices paid by consumers and business people for web surfing on their mobiles while abroad.
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc  said on Tuesday that two of its subsidiaries had sued Aruba Networks Inc  for patent infringement related to wireless local area network technologies.
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Marion Jones has filed a multi-million euro lawsuit for defamation against the man who alleged he supplied the former Olympic sprint champion with performance-enhancing drugs.
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-- The country's largest provider of pay-as-you-go mobile services is suing the federal government over a recent ruling that allows people to disable the software that locks cell phones to a particular carrier.
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The European Commission says Vodafone and T-Mobile abuse their dominant positions in the German mobile phone market.
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European consumer groups want a cap on mobile phone tariffs  for customers making roaming call outside their home country.
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An Indian NGO (non-government organization) called Telecom Watchdog has filed a petition with the High Court of Delhi, alleging that foreign shareholding in mobile services operator Hutchison Essar Ltd. is in breach of the Indian government's regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI).
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Wireless technology company  Freedom Wireless Inc. said on Friday it sued five wireless  carriers and services providers -- including Cingular Wireless  and Ericsson -- over patent infringement charges.
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TechWeb - A class action suit claims that drivers were illegally arrested and ticketed for using their cell phones while driving.
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(InfoWorld) - Europe's second highest court threw out an appeal by France TÃ©lÃ©comÂ of the European Commission's 2003 antitrust ruling against the firm on Tuesday, ordering it to pay the â¬10.35 million ($12.97 million) fine. The Commission found Wanadoo, France TÃ©lÃ©com's Internet subsidiary, guilty of effectively shutting out competitors from the lucrative high-speed Internet market by setting its prices artificially low. France TÃ©lÃ©com appealed the decision claiming it wasn't a dominant player at the time. Under E.U. law, predatory pricing, when a firm deliberately makes a loss in order to deter others from entering the market, is only illegal when carried out by dominant firms. Tuesday's ruling strengthens the Commission's hand in dealing with other competition abuses in the telecom market. "The Commission is delighted with this ruling," said Jonathan Todd, the regulator's spokesman on competition issues. Since the 2003 antitrust ruling, the French market for ADSLÂ has grown enormously. "The French market has become one of the most competitive in Europe, thanks to the European Commission," Todd said. The Commission began investigating Wanadoo in July 1999 during an inquiry within the E.U. into the provision of local loop access services and use of the residential local loop. Fourteen months later, the regulator opened a formal probe into the French company, examining the prices Wanadoo charged its residential customers in France for high-speed Internet access. The Commission found that the predatory prices charged by Wanadoo for its eXtense and Wanadoo ADSL services did not enable it to cover its variable costs until August 2001 or to cover its full costs between then and October 2002 as part of a plan to preempt the market in high-speed Internet access during a key phase in its development. The Commission concluded thatÂ this conduct constituted an abuse of its dominant position in the French market for residential high-speed Internet access. The court found that Wanadoo had eight times the number of ADSL subscribers than its closest competitor during the period in question. That and its link with France TÃ©lÃ©com, the incumbent telecommunications operator in France, "conferred on it advantages over its competitors," the court said. France TÃ©lÃ©com said it retains its right to appeal to the European Court of Justice, the Union's top court, but no decision to appeal had been made on Tuesday.
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Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, took legal action earlier this week against two European manufacturers for allegedly infringing on technology patents and registered designs.
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Societe Generale files a legal complaint against the trader accused of fraud which led to huge losses at the bank.