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  • People - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : People )
    Motorola has named Patricia B. Morrison as senior vice president and chief information officer. Neil Ransom has been appointed to the Board of Overture Networks, after serving as CTO for Alcatel.
  • Subscriber figures - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- subscribers )
    Far EasTone (Taiwan) has some 6.3m mobile users. Philippines: the country has about 32.9m mobile users, and mobile penetration stands at about 40% at the end of 2004. Main mobile operators are ...
  • Operator results - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Operator - results )
    SK Telecom (Sth. Korea) announced 1Q05 revenues of €1.93bn (almost flat), of which 91% from wireless services, an operating income of €492m (down 11%) and a net income of €295m (down 19%).
  • Mobile operator strategies - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- mobile networks )
    Romania's Zapp is investing $60m to expand and upgrade its CDMA450 network to 90% of Romanian population. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) will launch its 3G service on July 26. It expects to attract ...
  • Fixed operator strategies - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- fixed networks )
    Meridian (Philippines) is investing to establish a nationwide broadband wireless access infrastructure. Smart bought 40% of Meridian last year. Medi Telecom (Morocco) was granted a fixed-line ...
  • Global operator strategies - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- Strategies & Organization )
    Four investors are infusing some $300m in total in Aircel (India). AMP, IL&FS, Clarity Partners, and Pequot Ventures have gained a 30% equity stake in the company. Sprint is buying Unwired Inc. ...
  • Vendor results - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor - results )
    Alcatel pre-announced better than expected 2Q05 results. Revenues should be up 8% to €3.1bn, the operating margin returned in the 8% -9% range, and net profit should be around €170m. Tandberg ...
  • Mobile orders - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor- contracts (mobile) )
    Samsung will supply WCDMA systems to Vibo (Taiwan). It is its first WCDMA win outside Korea. Lucent got a $500m order from MetroPCS (USA) to provide 3G CDMA 2000 equipment for network expansion. ...
  • Fixed orders - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor- contracts (fixed) )
    Alcatel and Sylantro have delivered an integrated NGN solution to China Unicom. Sylantro will deliver servers and Alcatel its softswitch and call session controller. UTStarcom has received a $100m ...
  • Mobile vendor strategies - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor- mobile networks )
    Samsung and LG announced plans to develop mobile phones that combine cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. They are partnering with Kineto for the UMA technology. Motorola announced new R&D centers in ...
  • Fixed vendor strategies - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor - fixed networks )
    Nortel and Unisystems have established a JV, named Uni-Nortel, for sales, marketing and support of Nortel's equipment and services in Greece and Cyprus.
  • Global vendor strategies - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor - Strategies & organisation )
    NEC has opened Russian unit to focus on the telecom market. Samsung targets French 3G handset market and wants more than 50% market share. Apple is rumored becoming MVNO in the US market!! Intel ...
  • Market Researches - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Market corner )
    Service provider capex spending totaled $207bn in 2004, according to In-Stat, and will continue to grow moderately over the next five years to reach $78bn in 2009. According to Forrester, ...
  • Mobile phone as your key (14/07/2005 publié dans : Market corner )
    Mobile phone as your key: it is a new application for mobile handsets. Launched in Japan, your handset can lock and unlock your front door very easily, just dialing a pre-registered number. It is ...
  • Iran telecom policy - 14/7/5 (14/07/2005 publié dans : Market corner )
    Iran has launched a $700m national fiber-optic network with connection with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan and UAE. It will also link Iran to Pakistan, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Turkey in the ...
  • Vacation time (14/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
    I will be out for several weeks (about four) and will  return in mid- August. I am not sure to be able to post news in the meantime, but will try. I wish you good summer vacation.
  • Stratellites (14/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
     GlobeTel (GTE) announced it has entered into a joint venture with Sanswire Networks, Leo A. Daly III and J. Randolph Dumas, for the deployment of high altitude communications platforms known as ...
  • EU warns consumers over costs to use mobile phones abroad (14/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
    EU will launch a web site to warn consumers of huge differences in charges Europeans have to pay when they use their mobile phones abroad. It is surely a complex exercise to list some 5000 ...
  • 3G white paper available (14/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
     3G Americas, a wireless industry group supporting the GSM family of technologies, has published a white-paper covering industry progress towards UMTS Release 6 and its further long term ...
  • BSNL invites bids for $5b GSM deal (14/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
     In a tentative to become the largest GSM operator in India, BSNL is inviting bids for the procurement of 60m mobile lines. BSNL currently has about 10m mobile subscribers and targets to reach 20m ...
  • New .mobi domain (14/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created .mobi internet domain. A dedicated JV, mTLD Top Level Domain, formed by mobile operators and vendors, will offer the ...
  • People - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : People )
    Cisco has named Jayshree Ullal senior VP of the data center, switching, and security technology group, while it named Charles H. Giancarlo as its new chief development officer, succeeding Mario ...
  • Agenda - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Agenda )
    VON 2005 19-22/09/05 Boston, UShttp://von.com 4th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology.                        21-23/09 Geneva IUT SIIT ...
  • Subscriber figures - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- subscribers )
    Tesim (Turkey) has 8.2m mobile users and targets 10m by the end of this year. Turkey has 36m mobile users, of which 25.6m for Turkcell. Russia: reports 97.6m mobile users in June, of which 34.2m ...
  • Operator results - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Operator - results )
     Etisalat (UAE) announced first 5-month net income of $ 463m, (+22%). It operates also in Pakistan (26% stake in PTC), in Saudi Arabia and in Sudan.
  • Mobile operator strategies 2 - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- mobile networks )
    Orange Romania could launch 3G service in Romania in 2006, after the launch of EDGE services in Oct. 2004. Telekom Malaysia has joined the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), a regional mobile ...
  • Mobile operator strategies 1 - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- mobile networks )
    China Unicom will abandon its handset subsidies policy for CDMA phones, in a move to cut costs, but could create a new subsidiary to sell mobile phones. Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) says ...
  • Fixed operator strategies - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- fixed networks )
    China Great Wall will build and launch in orbit a communication satellite NIGCOMSAT-I for Nigeria in early 07. Google is backing Ethernet-over-powerline transmission (BPL) in investing in Current ...
  • Global operator strategies - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Operator- Strategies & Organization )
    Hutchison Whampoa (HK) is interested in the Spanish market, but denied any interested in buying local telecom company Auna. FT and Microsoft have agreed to jointly work on fixed-mobile ...
  • Mobile orders - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor- contracts (mobile) )
    Ericsson is the sole supplier for new Finnet (Finland) 3G network. It will also expand its 2G network. Nokia announced it will help Telefonica Moviles launching first consumer pilot of mobile TV ...
  • Fixed orders - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor- contracts (fixed) )
    UTStarcom has helped Japan’s largest broadband provider, Softbank BB, building its new IPTV offering. UTStarcom is providing all all pieces of the IPTV distribution chain from the headend ...
  • Mobile vendor strategies - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor- mobile networks )
    Motorola and Samsung have signed a cross-licensing contract in the mobile telephony. Compal (Taiwan) has received orders from Motorola to manufacture  3G handsets on an OEM basis. Motorola is ...
  • Fixed vendor strategies - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor - fixed networks )
    Cisco is believed to be interested in buying EMC, the storage worldwide leader, for $43bn. Zhone technologies will buy broadband equipment vendor Paradyne Networks in a deal worth $184m. Juniper ...
  • Global vendor strategies - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Vendor - Strategies & organisation )
    Interdigital could receive about $250m from Nokia in royalty obligations. The arbitration took place in the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. Ericsson ...
  • Market researches - 10/07/05 (10/07/2005 publié dans : Market corner )
    ð China has shipped some 60m handsets in 1Q05, down 6.5%, according to Research and Markets. ð The market for macro cellular base stations will increase sharply from 1.8m in 2004 to 3.5m in 2009, ...
  • China's telecom industry restructuring (10/07/2005 publié dans : Market corner )
    China: The plan for a restructuring of China's telecom industry has been finalized but not yet submitted to the State Council, so the formal agreement could take some additional months. It is ...
  • WiMAX licenses in France (10/07/2005 publié dans : Market corner )
    France: Up to now, only one operator (Altitude Telecom) has been granted a broadband wireless license. The French regulator (Arcep) is proposing to grant two WiMAX licenses by region in order to ...
  • FT is also on the fixed-mobile convergence track (10/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
    France Telecom has unveiled NExT (New Experience in Telecom services), a 3-year plan for the launch of a number of new services, such as integrated voice, messaging and video-telephony, and ...
  • New GSMA Emerging Markets Initiative (10/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
    The GSMA had already launched in February an initiative to make affordable mobile communications a reality in emerging markets. The first step was a procurement of some 6m low-cost handsets, won ...
  • Broadband wireless standards (10/07/2005 publié dans : Top stories )
    Current fixed wireless WiMAX products are made compliant with IEEE 802.16d or 802.16-2004 specs. But future WiMAX products (to be launch late 2006 or early 2007) are going to be based on the ...
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