A court in Delaware US has received a complaint from Nokia insinuating that Apple had infringed upon Nokia patents that cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and that all Apple iPhone models released since 2007 included Nokia’s intellectual property.

There are ten patents that make up this dispute; they all relate to technologies fundamental to making devices, which are compatible with, one or more of the GSM, UMTS 3G WCDMA and wireless LAN standards.

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Finally, the ongoing saga of what or who would purchase T-Mobile UK has ended with Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom Orange agreeing to merge their UK mobile businesses.

T-Mobile’s decision to go with Orange seems initially to be motivated by money, with rival bidders Vodafone and O2 both bidding around £3.5 billion. This was according to industry sources far too low for Deutsche Telekom, who had hoped for bids of over £4 billion.

So what difference benefits does a merger between these two mobile giants mean for the consumer? Initially I don’t know but as T-Mobile and Orange have agreed to the venture being split 50:50 this will create a clear market leader in the UK with a combined market share of 37% with over 28 million customers. Making it the clear UK mobile market leader with O2 at 27% and Vodafone 25% respectively. 

I personally hope this will be a catalyst for change in the UK mobile market, especially for prepaid customers who want to see more handsets made available.