Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications, two of the country's biggest cellphone operators, said yesterday that they planned to drop their lawsuits against each other.

But he said better and cheaper technologies gave cellphone operators more opportunities to "really address consumer needs."

Did you ever hear the cellphone operators complaining that the early competition adversely affected their business?

The country's largest cellphone operator, Telekomunikasi Selular, said that its net profit rose 52 percent to 4.24 trillion rupiah ($492 million) last year.

All the three major cellphone operators namely Telecel, Econet and NetOne have base stations in the town.

Other worries weighed on Vodafone shares today, analysts said, including a disappointing report from Verizon Wireless, a cellphone operator in the United States.

Also, she said, there are more cellphone operators in America, making it harder to set standard technology and business practices.

Among the big American cellphone operators, only Sprint has a wide-ranging partnership with a top search provider, Microsoft.

But one potential client is NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese cellphone operator, which has been a traditional Sun partner.

Vodafone, the world's largest cellphone operator in terms of revenue, is looking to India to bolster its growth.