Maze headed off Austria's Anna Fenninger, while Switzerland's Fabienne Suter was third in her best result since returning from a serious knee injury.

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Norway already requires that financial services firms record calls and Spain is apt to be next in Europe, while Switzerland and Singapore are looking at introducing mobile recording regulation.

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Most European countries now have too many 3G operators for all of them to be profitable: Denmark, for example, has four players and 3.8m mobile users, while Switzerland has four licence-holders for its 5.3m users.

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