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    At the end of 2007, the top 10 US MNOs served a total of about 250m subscribers, but with operator' subscriber base ranging from less than 1m to over 70m. This gives an idea of the relatively ...
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    Time is changing: DoCoMo, the mobile pioneer is out of the podium. Unsurprisingly, the two main Chinese mobile operators (China Mobile and China Unicom) are the clear top leaders with ...
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    According to IDC and crosschecked with vendor results, there were about 291.6m units shipped in the quarter. This is about a 14% increase over 2007, but down 12% from 4Q07 sales. As reported by ...
  • Ericsson 1Q08 results (27/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    Despite the recent warning of lower growth rate, Ericsson reported better-than-expected numbers. Net income fell 55% to €284m in the quarter, but includes a restructuring charge of €86m. Sales ...
  • Motorola 1Q08 results (27/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    Motorola is still struggling with its mobile devices business. Global 1Q08 sales amounted to $7.5bn, down 20%, with an operating loss of $269m and at the end a net loss of $194m. Gross margin was ...
  • ATT 1Q08 results (27/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    It has reported steady growth in 1Q08 results, with revenues growing 6% to $30.7bn, operating income up 28% to $6bn and net income up 22%to $3.5bn. Capex increased 27% to $4.2bn, but free cash ...
  • Market corner - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Market corner )
    A few set of market information released this week: According to Compete Inc., US consumers are willing quad-play offerings, bundling mobile, fixed line, internet and TV. According to Strategy ...
  • Subscriber stats - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Subscriber Figures )
    The Philippine' s mobile subscriber base reached 55m with a penetration rate of 60% and is planned to reach 73m by 2010. China Mobile added 22.8m new customers in 1Q08, of which 7.8m in March, ...
  • Vendor corner - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Vendor Corner )
    Ericsson and two Gulf Arab telecom have applied for information to bid for Egypt' second fixed-line telecom license. They joined nine other companies interested in the auction. NSN will team with ...
  • Awards - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Awards )
    ip.access (UK) would have received a $500m order for 7m femtocell units from ATT Mobility. ALU has signed a $56m contract with LTT (Lybia) for a WiMAX network that could cover 300,000 customers. ...
  • Operator corner - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Operator Corner )
    Bad time for Sprint Nextel: the Pivot partnership, formed in 2007 by Sprint Nextel and many cable operators to launch quad play offerings is dead. Main cable operators (Comcast, Cox, Time Warner) ...
  • Financial performance (2) - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Financial Performance )
    Samsung’ s telecom business reported $5.6bn in revenues (+21%) in 1Q08, of which $4.7bn in handsets. The operating profit grew 53% to $924m. Samsung delivered 46.3m handsets in the quarter. ...
  • Financial performance (1) - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Financial Performance )
    Teliasonera announces 1Q08 net income of €723m (+9%), EBITDA of €831m (+2.2%), on revenues of €2.6bn (+7.4%). Capex rose by 38% to €346m. Yahoo reports better-than-expected results with 1Q08 ...
  • Regulation corner - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : Regulation Corner )
    A EU court has ruled that historical costs have to be taken into account for pricing telecom services. It is a big change as all new competitive access providers (and regulators) argued that ...
  • People - 27/04/08 (27/04/2008 publié dans : People )
    Leap Wireless International appointed Colin Holland to senior VP of engineering and technical operations, Jeff Nachbor to senior VP of financial operations, and Greg Post to senior VP of field ...
  • The right step (20/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    This first step is the right one. Excessive 3G IPR licensing and the dominant position of very few patent holders have hampered and delayed the development of the 3G technology. So vendors do not ...
  • FT / Teliasonera €34bn deal (20/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    FT announced this week a bid worth €34bn to takeover Teliasonera, one of the largest takeover bid in Europe. Up to now, FT permanently repeated its strategy was to grow in emerging markets, and ...
  • Nokia 1Q08 results (20/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    Nokia reported 1Q08 revenues of €12.7bn in the quarter, up 28%, and a net profit of €1.2bn, up 25%, but below expectations by €150m. The operating margin increased over 1p to 14.7%, but down ...
  • EU Top 10 MNOs (20/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    At the end of 4Q07, there were almost 710m mobile users in Europe (including Ukraine and Turkey). The top ten MNOs accounted for almost 40% of this total with about 280m mobile subscribers. The ...
  • PC sales: healthy! (20/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    Worldwide PC sales amounted to almost 70m units in 1Q08, up 14.5%, and the growth was driven by laptops. But sales began to be impacted by the economical weakness in the North American market ...
  • Market Corner - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Market corner )
    A few set of market information released this week: According to Nokia, recycled mobile phones are still several years away. But 40%-60% of the metal components within Nokia' s phones are already ...
  • Subscriber Stats - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Subscriber Figures )
    India: Bharti Airtel added 2.3m new subscribers in March, while BSNL added more than 1.6m and Vodafone Essar added just below 1.6m. Idea Cellular added 1.1m in the month. The mobile subscriber ...
  • Vendor Corner - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Vendor Corner )
    Qualcomm invest in fleet management in buying all the assets of Spanish Ronda Grupo Consultor. Sagem Mobiles (France) plans to outsource its customer care services to Anovo. TechFaith Wireless ...
  • Awards - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Awards )
    NSN is providing BH Telecom (Bosnia – Herzegovina) with a new fiber optic backbone network. Proxim will provide its WiMAX portfolio to MSS Povolzhie in Russia, a Megafon subsidiary. Aptilo ...
  • Operator Corner - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Operator Corner )
    China Mobile said it is mulling buying minority stakes in foreign telecom companies in emerging markets. It also plans to provide 15,000 3G TD-SCDMA handsets to the Beijing Olympics organization ...
  • Financial Performance - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Financial Performance )
    KDDI (Japan) lowered its annual operating profit by over 3% to $3.9bn, due to higher than expected customer gain costs in a saturated market. Digitel (Philippines) reports higher (+48%) 2007 ...
  • Regulation Corner - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : Regulation Corner )
    The Brazilian government supports the merger between Oi and Brazil Telecom, as a strong challenger to Telefonica and America Movil. India: two state owned telcos (BSNL and MTNL) may get 3G ...
  • People - 20/04/08 (20/04/2008 publié dans : People )
    Gregoire Dallemagne, ex KPN and Tele2 Belgium, will become Belgacom' s executive VP for strategy. Ericsson cuts 290 jobs in two Swedish towns. Carl De Wilde, Tellabs' Sales & Strategy Executive, ...
  • Market corner - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Market corner )
    A few set of market information released this week: ABI Research warns that the worldwide GSM subscriber base growth rate would reduce to 14% in 2008/2009 (vs 22% in 2006/2007), but still the ...
  • Subscriber stats - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Subscriber Figures )
    DoCoMo' share in the Japanese mobile market sinks below 50% for the first time with 53.4m subscribers. Middle-East and Africa 3G subscribers pass 13m mark, of which 12m are WCDMA. Mobile: 3G ...
  • Vendor corner - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 )
    NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics will combine their wireless chip businesses in a JV that would be a top 3 industry player. STMicroelectronics will have a 80% stake in the JV. Motorola ...
  • Awards - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Awards )
    ALU has signed contracts to upgrade/ expand the optical backbone network of OTE (Greece), and of TelePacific (California) . It will also deliver a very high-speed network to connect France’s ...
  • Operator corner 2 - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Operator Corner )
    FT will launch Orange internet TV services with Eutelsat in France and Poland, and with SES Astra in Spain. Vodafone and BT announced a 5-year managed network solutions deal in the UK. Vodafone ...
  • Operator corner 1 - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Operator Corner )
    Singtel (Singapore) plans to upgrade its broadband wireless networks in Singapore and six more countries to 40 Mbit/s over the next 2-3 years. Telecom NZ plans to invest $1.1bn in the fiscal year ...
  • Financial performance - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Financial Performance )
    Aperto Networks has raised $20m in a new equity financing. Ericsson reports 2007 sales of €20bn and net profit of €3.3bn at the annual shareholding meeting. Ericsson said it accounts for over 800 ...
  • Regulation corner - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : Regulation Corner )
    The EC decided it will OK in-flight calls. For that, it will recommend using GSM 1800 MHz technology for ensuring interoperability among parties, but leaves airliners to install picocells on ...
  • People - 13/04/08 (13/04/2008 publié dans : People )
    ATT has appointed John Donovan as its CTO, replacing Chris Rice, who is appointed VP of ATT' s Shared Services division.. Dave Dorman, a former ATT CEO, will become next Motorola' s non executive ...
  • Top 10 MNOs in LATAM (06/04/2008 publié dans : Top stories )
    The Latam mobile market is very competitive, and, either by subscriber base or by net additions, can rival with other markets. The top 10 mobile operators account for a combined 240m subscriber ...
  • Market Corner - 06/04/08 (06/04/2008 publié dans : Market corner )
    A few set of market information released this week: According to Samsung, it held a 31% market share in the French mobile phone market, ahead of Nokia with 24% in February. CTIA comments: LTE ...
  • Subscriber statistics - 06/04/08 (06/04/2008 publié dans : Subscriber Figures )
    US: CTIA claims 255m mobile subscribers at the end of 2007. Mobily (Saudi Arabia) had over 11m mobile subscribers at the end of 2007. Germany: 8.7m 3G users at the end of 2007.
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