Euronews: Deutsche Telekom Looks East

German giant Deutsche Telekom is looking to bolster its position in eastern Europe by possibly buying fixed-line operators in Poland and its neighbours, reports Bloomberg. Deutsche Telekom already owns Polish mobile operator Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z.o.o. (PTC) . (See Deutsche Telekom Shrinks in Q1 and DT's Shares Rocket on AT&T Deal.)

Bidders for spectrum in Spain's latest auction will be unveiled today, reports Reuters, with the Telia Company -owned mobile operator Yoigo expected to be in the lineup. Telefónica SA (NYSE: TEF) and Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD) are barred from the auction, and have indeed been told to hand back spectrum they already owned. (See Spanish Mobile Challenger Wields DPI and EC Warns Hungary, Spain Over Spectrum.)

As the industry's annual Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT)-fest gets underway in Dublin this week -- that's the TM Forum 's Management World 2011 -- Tekelec added a new set of applications for its performance management product that gather data on service usage, handset metrics and network accessibility, with the aim of giving operators a better view of subscribers' service experiences. (See Tekelec Adds Customer Experience Management , It'll Be Cloudy in Dublin, DT Execs Offer Original Duet and TMF: Carriers at Ease With the Cloud.)

3G Infrastructure Services AB , which provides the 3G network shared by Telenor Group (Nasdaq: TELN) and 3 Group subsidiary Hi3G Access AB in Sweden, has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to modernize the high-traffic areas of the network with its Flexi Multiradio Base Stations and expand the capacity of most of the rest of the network. Speeds of 42 Mbit/s and lower energy consumption are among the claimed benefits of the upgrade. (See Swedish Operators Upgrade 3G With NSN and LTE Showdown in Sweden .)

Boffins at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are claiming a new data-transfer speed record using a single laser over fiber, reports the BBC. Thanks to our old friend the "fast Fourier transform," the bar has apparently been set at a mighty 26 Tbit/s. Whoosh!

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— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading