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Top StorynnCommunications Daily* –- The CTIA is revving up a big campaign to free spectrum for licensed use (p1). nnnAmong OthersnnKansas City Star -- The breach of Barack Obama's privacy at Verizon Wireless was seen as a worry for all cellular subscribers.nn -- The president of Sprint Nextel's Sprint-branded, CDMA business leaves the company Monday with no reason given, his duties added to those of corporate development President Keith Cowan.nnCNN -- Verizon Wireless fired the workers who snooped on Obama's cellphone account records.nnWall Street Journal* -- Qwest's CFO tried to reassure Wall Street that the carrier can cover its debt.nnSilicon.com -- Planned U.K. legislation to require ISPs to keep records of all Web, VOIP and data-messaging traffic, in line with an EU directive, reportedly is off for 2009.nnFinancial Times -- BT worries that the longer the British telecom regulator, Ofcom, takes to devise a national ultrahigh-speed network, the more Virgin Media can entrench itself as the market leader.nn -- Telefonica and Vivendi may bid jointly for Digital Plus, a pay satellite TV service.nnGuardian -- BT should be prodded to get moving on a superfast broadband network instead of waiting while the costs fall.nnReuters -- National antitrust authorities fined Telecom Italia and 12 other Italian phone companies $3 million for premium calls made by "dialer" viruses and not subscribers.nn -- The introduction of the BlackBerry Storm brought lines of hundreds of people at some Verizon Wireless stores (News.com).nn -- Palm, having lost share to Apple and Research In Motion, has started job cuts of unspecified scope.nnBloomberg -- Telecom Italia may postpone a spinoff of its wireless network because of the financial crisis, La Repubblica reported.nnUSA Today -- Apple released version 2.2 of its iPhone software, making security and other improvements (Wichita Business Journal).nnWashington Post -- New ways to trace cellphones increase the options for thieves to prove their stupidity.nnBy using our e-mail delivery service, you understand and agree that we may use tracking software to ensure accurate electronic delivery and copyright compliance. This software forwards to us certain technical data and newsletter usage information from any computer that opens this email. We do not share this information with anyone outside the company, nor do we use it for any commercial purpose. For more information about our data collection practices, please see our Privacy Policy. n n_____________________nn*Access by paid subscription only. Free trials of Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily are available.