Disappointing third-quarter numbers from Danish operator TDC A/S (Copenhagen: TDC) have prompted it to cut its full-year outlook, reports Reuters. TDC's revenue fell 6 percent year-on-year to 1 billion Danish kroner (US$181 million), which was slightly below analysts' expectations.

Middle Eastern operators Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co. (du) and Etisalat still can't agree on the terms of a network-sharing deal, four years after the idea was first mooted, according to a report on Arabian Business. Apparently, the technical issues have been resolved, but financial ones haven't.

Prismgate part 94: Reuters reports that German journalists have been advised by their union to stop using the Google and Yahoo search engines and email services following the reports of data-snooping by US and British intelligence agencies. As if journalists would stoop to such unreliable and basic research tools. Now then, where's that NSA Wikipedia page I had open a minute ago… (See British Spooks Tap the Global Net, Prism in a Big Data World, and Merkel's Mobile.)

Telia Company 's Finnish subsidiary, Sonera, has paid out €41.2 million ($55.7 million) for 2 x 10MHz frequencies in the 800MHz band, which it will use to significantly increase its 4G coverage. The license that accompanies the spectrum mandates that Sonera achieves 4G coverage of 95 percent in Finland within three years.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading