Belgacom’s wholesale subsidiary BICS has teamed up with PostFinance, a division of Switzerland’s national postal service, to launch an international money transfer service.

The service allows instant money transfers between any type of organisation that processes payments – be it a bank, an online payment service or an operator’s mobile wallet.

UK regulator Ofcom has announced the first official pilot for white space frequencies in Europe, which it hopes will drive the technology towards a roll out for use by the telecoms industry next year.

While several big names including Microsoft, Google, Nokia, the BBC, BskyB and BT have performed private trials in Cambridge since 2011, this is the first time that the whole industry has been invited to test devices and services on the spectrum.

Visa Europe has added person-to-person (P2P) immediate payments and multi-currency payments to its Visa Personal Payments mobile service, in a move that could have serious implications for operators and their mobile wallet services.

Visa Personal Payments is a mobile payments ecosystem targeted at European banks keen to offer mobile banking services.

Orange Business Services has announced today what it claims is the market’s first Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) global offering.

As Mobile Europe can exclusively reveal, the solution enables enterprises to deploy video conferencing, unified messaging, IM and telephony together in an app onto all mobile and desktop devices, via a web portal hosted in the cloud.

Telefónica Digital has announced a global partnership with AirWatch that promises enterprises an all-in-one Security Mobile Device Management platform to solve their BYOD headaches.

Based on AirWatch’s Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Application Management (MAM), Secure Content Locker (SCL) and Email Container (EC) products, the new web-based, multi-platform solution enables enterprises to control all the devices on VPN and Wi-Fi corporate networks through a single HTML 5-supported console.

           At the Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference in Berlin on Wednesday, both Amdocs and Tekelec showcased new policy management solutions designed to help operators deal with two key issues around Wi-Fi – offload and monetisation.

First, Amdocs unveiled its Wi-Fi Experience Solution, which allows operators to extend existing data services with Wi-Fi, provided they already have existing infrastructure that supports Hotspot 2.0.

Boingo Wireless has announced a new partnership with public transport Wi-Fi specialist GOWEX that will expand its existing network across Europe.

Boingo’s small cells network currently covers over a million DAS and Wi-Fi locations that enables one billion consumers worldwide to access more than 200,000 hotspots across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The new deal sees an additional 1,400 GOWEX hotspots on public transport added to Boingo’s network in over 50 cities throughout Spain, France, Ireland and Belgium.

Outsourcing and consultancy firm Tech Mahindra has acquired the Type Approval Lab in Lund, Sweden, in a bid to expand its device testing presence into Europe.

Formerly part of Sony Mobile’s internal test function, the lab will provide end-to-end testing solutions which focus on the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), relative standard error (RSE), over the air (OTA), specific absorbtion rate (SAR) and radio frequency (RF) test requirements of OEMs for global markets.

Huawei has announced a new rich communications gateway based on Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC), claiming an industry first.

WebRTC is a Firefox and Google-backed technology promising real-time voice and video communications delivered at a good quality embedded into the internet browser, with the controls hosted in the cloud.

Tata Communications has launched an international HD voice termination service platform that aims to help MNOs route international HD calls using end-to-end IP without transcoding.

The idea is that operators would use the vendor’s platform and leverage its network, which currently offers IP voice interconnections – 26 of which are HD-ready – to 210 mobile operators.

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission is investigating Samsung over fabricated posts in local online forums that defamed HTC products, which could lead to Samsung receiving penalties for false advertising and a potential fine of around €640,000.

The investigation was started after a Taiwanese blog called “TaiwanSamsungLeaks” was set up, accusing the handset manufacturer of “evil marketing” – i.e. paying Taiwanese students to anonymously post comments on local gadget site forums which criticised rival products, particularly the HTC One X and HTC Sensation XL devices.

Following the announcement of its LTEHaul solution at MWC 2013, Huawei has announced new products which will support software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities will be supported to offer operators a comprehensive solution to traffic congestion, a key problem affecting operators today.

SDN-based Mobile Backhaul is able to manage the vendor’s ATN910 series cell site routers as a virtual cluster through centralised SDN controllers embedded in new CX600 series aggregation routers.