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Love your mobile phone? Hate your mobile phone bill? One network operator has decided enough is enough and is finally offering totally free and unlimited calls via Skype.

The banking industry in the Asia Pacific region has bumped aside telecommunications companies to drive the market for mobile banking and payments, although both industries are struggling to find the right business model for satisfying revenue requirements balanced with consumer needs and expectation.

CA has boosted its sales effort in the Australian and New Zealand markets with new hirings, with the company predicting growth in its managed services business in the current economic climate.

Telstra will bank up to $100 million a year for a decade after signing a managed services deal with the Commonwealth Bank to upgrade the bank’s telecommunications facilities.

Tiny Norfolk Island’s sole telecommunications provider, Norfolk Telecom, has implemented optimisation technology in a deal with Expand Networks which Norfolk says will result in savings of $80,000 a year.

Trans-Tasman telco Gotalk is claiming a cost saving ‘step change’ with the release of new technology for small and medium sized businesses which combines a standard PABX system with broadband VOIP.

European industrialist, AkzoNobel, has signed a five-year, multimillion euro contract extension with France Telecom’s Orange business services for the supply of ICT services in 55 countries, including Australia and New Zealand.