Telecommunications

• Spain's Telefonica gets OK to cut 6,500 jobs
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  MADRID (AP) - Spain's Labor Ministry has approved an agreement between Telefonica and unions to cut up to 6,500 jobs through 2013 to reduce costs at the Spanish telecoms giant.
   
  
• Budgeting for wireless data on Verizon's new plans
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Are you a wireless data glutton or a nibbler?
   
  
• Nokia to launch Microsoft platform phones in 2011
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  SINGAPORE (AP) - Finnish handset maker Nokia Corp. plans to introduce its first mobile phones using the Microsoft Windows operating system this year, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.
   
  
• Dutch parliament voting on mobile 'net neutrality'
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  AMSTERDAM (AP) - The Dutch parliament appears set to approve a bill Tuesday that would force mobile Internet providers to let their customers use Skype and other third-party services on their networks without charging extra or giving preferential treatment to their own offerings.
   
  
• NTSB: Culture of driving with phones must change
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The nation risks a surge in deadly accidents unless it makes distracted driving - talking, texting and browsing the Internet while operating cars, boats and trains - as taboo as drinking and driving, members of the National Transportation and Safety Board said Tuesday.