by Tatiana Repkova

Europe's biggest telecom groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the U.S. giants. Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and one American network, Cingular, are among the companies that will come together for secret, high-level talks at the mobile industry's biggest annual trade show in Barcelona in February. Declining call revenues are driving network operators together to compete against Google and Yahoo! search engines.

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