Telecoms

Pre-tax profit declines to £3.3bn from £9.5bn last year.

Ben Bernanke is expected to make a statement on the future of Fed's bond-buying programme on 22 May.

Consumer Price Inflation may not dip below 2.5% before 2016, says the Ernst & Young Item Club.

Markit Household Finance Index rises to 40.4 in May from 37.7 in April.

BT could be staging a return to the mobile network market, 11 years after handing BT Cellnet over to O2.

China's industrial output and retail sales data fail to cheer European markets.

Bullish sentiment prevails across European markets as investors look for cues from policy measures and corporate earnings.

As the Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei finally speaks relations with US, the company's security chief criticises Obama's cyber policies.

Economists expect US economy to grow by 3% in the first quarter, significantly higher than fourth-quarter growth rate.

Vodafone forms consortium with China Mobile to bid for mobile licenses in Burma.

Vodafone stock price soars on renewed speculation that Verizon and AT&T are sealing a takeover deal

A new study by uSwitch shows that UK internet speeds dramatically vary between areas that are just miles apart

Apple is under investigation from EU antitrust regulators following informal complaints from telecoms operators regarding the company's distribution practices

Now that even Princes William and Harry are motorcyclists, the Oxford English Dictionary has responded to pressure and changed its definition of the word 'biker'.

As the 2012 DA14 became the largest asteroid to pass within 17,200 miles of Earth, scientists have warned of the danger of future impacts.

Leader of telecom equipment maker to leave company after group posts €1.4bn loss for 2012.

Powa, the London-based company offering mobile payments through smartphones has signed its first European deal, bringing the mPowa solution to Portugal Telecom customers.

Google chief Eric Schmidt claims that the Chinese are stealing commercially and politically valuable information from foreign rivals.

BlackBerry 10 is launching this week, seen as the last hope for RIM. But can it succeed? Technology editor David Gilbert investigates.

The Samsung Galaxy SIII is the most recommended smartphone in a mystery shopper survey of eight leading stores.

Samsung increased its lead over Apple as the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer, but Huawei leapfrogged Sony and ZTE to take third place.

The auctioning of the UK's 4G spectrum over the coming weeks will be the biggest of its kind and we look at just how it will work, who's bidding and what it will mean for consumers.

Virgin and WPP bosses join list of ten names in FT letter urging prime minister not to risk Britain's membership of EU.

Mobile phone, landline and broadband customers may soon be able to leave their contract early and without paying a penalty, if their provider increases the price mid-contract.

Bob Diamond is biggest to leave post but 2012 had fair share of top-flight resignations.

The UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced that all major UK mobile phone operators will take part in the 4G auction process in early 2013.

The removal of a free broadband offer for its mobile customers has led Orange to top customer complaints list published by Ofcom.

George Osborne, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, has often of late made reference to the fact that the Coalition Government has already reduced the country's Budget Deficit by a quarter since coming to power. Concentrating on Deficit reduction has not been politically comfortable for the Government with the opposition Labour Party being usually ahead in the opinion polls since late November 2010 - it didn't take long - and a ComRes survey for The Independent at the end of October...

The iPhone 5 has been launched in China, but the company has still to reach a deal with China's biggest mobile operator.

The International Telecoms Union suffered a "humiliating failure" as the US led the way in blocking proposed new regulations on how the internet is run.