WorldCom: company doom and sector gloom

The fraud will almost certainly prompt WorldCom's banks to foreclose on its $30 billion debt, driving the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It will also hit customer confidence, raising the specter of mass defections - hitting creditors' chances of recovering their debts. Nor is it good news for other indebted telcos: they will find it even harder to raise money going forward.

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Wireless gaming: 19% of the UK play

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Will clinical trials go mobile

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Will border violence hurt offshore outsourcing into Mexico?

Drug-related violence in communities on the US/Mexican border has received significant media attention in recent weeks, and could potentially cause concern among outsourcers and their clients with contact center deployments in Mexico. However, Datamonitor believes that serious investors need to look at the long-term value that can be derived from this established national market.

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Wells Fargo: ditching its digital wallet

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WAP services: popular with the Brits

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Vodafone: taking control in the US and Japan?

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Vodafone: digging its heels in

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Verizon/Lucent: it's good, but it's not 3G

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Verizon Wireless: no limits on data

As well as rolling out its Express Network to 29 new markets, Verizon has also become the first US mobile carrier to implement a flat-rate data transmission pricing model. But while Verizon's first-mover status may allow it to take the lead in the mobile data space, it will soon face strong competition from other carriers' next generation networks.

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