Amdocs has announced a new managed services agreement with Cellcom Israel to manage the day-to-day IT operations and application development and maintenance in support of the service provider's billing, customer care and ordering operations.

On 1 August, Belgium's Belgacom will lower its rate for calls from fixed lines to mobile numbers. This is a result of the lowering of the mobile termination rates (MTR), conform to the decision of the regulator (BIPT) of 29 June 2010.

Telecom Personal, the mobile subsidiary of Telecom Argentina, has launched Personal E-M@il, a mass market push email service based on Synchronica's Mobile Gateway middleware.

Nigerian CDMA network, Starcomms has deployed a signalling platform from Performance Technologies.

Canada's Telus is to start selling smartphones made by Hutchison Whampoa backed INQ Mobile.