Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been awarded a five-year managed services deal by T-Mobile Netherlands , which is already a mobile infrastructure customer of the Chinese vendor. The deal, which will involve the transfer of about 80 T-Mobile staff to Huawei, includes the management of the operator's radio access, packet core and transport networks, according to a report from Nutech.nl.

Bitspin, the Swiss app developer best known for the Timely alarm clock app that works on Android devices, has been bought by Google (Nasdaq: GOOG).

Telefónica SA (NYSE: TEF) is denying rumors -- reported by Euronews on Friday -- that it is working on a complicated deal to acquire Brazilian mobile operator TIM Brasil . Telefónica already has a stake in Vivo Participacoes SA , another Brazilian mobile operator.

Swisscom AG (NYSE: SCM) is trumpeting the fact that it now has more than 1 million subscribers to its IPTV offering, a figure, it claims, that is equivalent to nearly one in three Swiss households. The service currently provides 270 channels, 70 of which are in HD. (See Swisscom Updates on IPTV.)

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading