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For a country that receives international aid as it seems unable to feed its population and yet claims to be self-sufficient as a nation, North Korea, or officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has accepted inward investment of US$400 million from Orascom to build a 3G mobile network.

Good news for those wireless operators with business plans not based on WiMAX: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an ITU-based standards organization, has completed its latest round of work clarifying the specifications for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless.

The Competition Council, a watchdog for fair competition in France's business sectors, today provisionally suspended an exclusivity agreement between Apple Inc. and France Telecom, Reuters reports, a decision aimed at allowing customers in France to buy the iPhone (with a contract) from rival operators SFR and Bouygues Telecom.

After repeated delays, China is set to award 3G licenses by beginning of 2009. China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Li Yizhong announced on December 12 that 3G network licenses will be issued by the beginning of next year and the country's three restructured telcos are expected to invest CNY 200 billion (US$29 billion).

At a recent presentation in London, Enrico Salvatori, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Qualcomm, introduced the company's latest 45mm chip with two integrated computing cores running at up to 1.5 GHz for next generation mobile computing devices.