Telus Corp (TU), Canada’s second largest telecom carrier, has reportedly acquired Black’s Photo Corporation (Black’s), a leading imaging and digital retailer in Canada , for C$28 million (US$26 million). For nearly 80 years, Black’s has been a premier distributor of cameras, accessories, albums and printing services that are complementary to Telus’ wireless offerings.  Telus’ wireless devices will feature in Black’s nationwide retail outlets, addressing the growing demand for mobile handsets embedded with high quality photo and video capability. Telus remains the industry leader in offering the broadest assortment of smartphones in Canada. Strong smartphone adoption and the associated increase in data service usage continue to catalyze wireless data revenue growth.  Telus contends with a weakening Canadian economy and domestic competition, which would intensify with the entry of new wireless players (including Globalive Communications and Quebecor Inc) in late 2009 and early 2010. The company continues to ...

Vodafone (VOD), the world’s largest revenue-generating wireless carrier, has reportedly launched the most advanced wireless high-speed Internet service in Greece based on the new HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access) mobile broadband technology.

The newly launched service which is also one of the first of its kind in Europe, will offer theoretical peak download speed of 21.6 megabit per second (Mbps), a significant improvement from the present download speeds of 14.4 Mbps offered by Vodafone in Greece.

The company will initially offer this advancement in the selected areas of Athens and extend the service in other areas in due course. The company recently completed commercial rollout of HSPA+ based mobile broadband service in Portugal as the first operator in that country to offer maximum download speed of 21.6 Mbps.

HSPA+, also called HSPA Evolution, represents a major advancement in 3G-based wireless broadband technologies, aimed at improving customer experience by

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