Round-Up: T-Mobile/LogicaCMG Lawsuit; More Hutch Sale Rumors; The Sun On .mobi

T-Mobile: The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) mobile subsidiary has filed a lawsuit for £16 million ($32.5 million) against system integrator LogicaCMG, after the latter overran on a project to redesign the T-Zones mobile portal — two years later the site has yet to relaunch. T-Mobile reported that in the first half of the year mobile data revenues went up by 31.5 percent to 2.6 billion euros ($3.6 billion); within that the company highlighted growth specifically in its off-portal initiative, Web’n’walk. The Telegraph notes that a court date will probably be set in November with the trial scheduled for the new year, just in time for LogicaCMG’s new chief executive Andy Green, formerly of BT, who is due to start in his new job in January 2008.

T-Mobile and Hutchison: Another story featuring the German operator. T-Mobile is reportedly interested in buying up the western European operations of Hutchison Whampoa, which include Three in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the UK. There’s been a lot of speculation on Hutchison selling off assets of the loss-making operations for some time now. T-Mobile has said it wants to make further acquisitions of operations in Europe, following its purchase of Orange in The Netherlands. This latest bit of speculation comes from the German business title WirtschaftsWoche, which quotes T-Mobile head Hamid Akhavan saying it is “definitely interested” in Three’s assets in Italy. (via MarketWatch)

The Sun: The UK tabloid has laid claim to become the country’s first national daily to launch a .mobi web portal. The site will offer readers the top 10 online stories from its News, Sport, Bizarre and Sun Woman sections, as well as horoscopes and daily Page 3 girlie profiles. All of this content will be free, but users will have to opt-in to The Sun’s marketing database to access anything after the first story. Content available to purchase will include Page 3 wallpapers and videos, ringtones, and other videos such as The Sun Virals. No word in the release on whether other News Corp.-owned papers in the country will also follow suit but last week sister company Times Media launched its own WAP initiative. Also last week, the Sun claimed that it had a combined monthly readership of 22.2 million users across print, online and mobile.

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