Reuters - Japan’s eAccess Ltd, a broadband Internet
and wireless data services provider, said on Monday it will
offer a mobile phone service with no basic monthly fee.
eAccess, one of three companies granted new wireless licenses
in 2005, will start voice services in March, and its move could
further exacerbate a price war in Japan’s tight mobile market,
where NTT DoCoMo Inc, KDDI Corp and Softbank Corp are locked in
a fierce competition.

FT.com - Customers at La Caixa, Spain’s largest savings bank, are being urged to spurn the queues for automatic teller machines. Instead, as suggested by a campaign being launched today, they should call up a virtual cash machine from the comfort of their 3G telephones. With a few taps on the keyboard, they will have access to most conventional ATM functions, with the obvious exception of cash withdrawal.

Reuters - Cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said
on Sunday its agreement in a U.S. court in Delaware with
Qualcomm was unlikely to solve the major legal battle over
patent fees between the two technology heavyweights.

TechWeb - Subscribers can now use their GPS-enabled mobile phones in more than 45 major metro areas in the United States.

TechWeb - Younger consumers are more likely to use their mobile phones for retail activities, the Gartner survey found.

Reuters - LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS), the
world’s fifth-largest mobile phone maker, said on Friday
difficulties at rival Motorola Inc give it a strong
chance to win market share from the world No.3.