Telesp Celular (Brazil) ended September 05 with 19.4m customers, up 2%. Tele Centro Oeste Celular (Brazil) had 6.6m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. (up 23.6%). Hungary reports 90% mobile ...
Telesp Celular (Brazil) reports 3Q05 net loss of $94m (down 40%) on revenues up 2% to $815m. EBITDA fell 16% to $231.4m. Tele Centro Oeste Celular (Brazil) reports 3Q05 net revenues of $253.3m ...
Telmex (Mexico) posts 3Q05 revenues of $3.7bn (up almost 9%) of which 25% outside Mexico. Local service revenues (35% of the total) were down 1.5%, domestic long-distance revenues (23% of the ...
Vodafone has acquired a 10% stake for $1.5bn in Bharti Televentures (India). The move is a comeback for Vodafone in India and highlights the Vodafone strategy to capitalize on emerging markets and ...
Telecom Italia, following BT, FT and DT examples, plans launching combined fixed-mobile phone in 2006. Comcast (USA) invested in mesh-networker BelAir, highlighting the interest of MSOs in WLAN to ...
Microsoft announced a 24% increase in its 3Q05 profit to $3.1bn on revenues of $9.7bn, up 6%. Its mobile business neared profitability and reported revenues of $74m, up 50%. Lucent posted earnings ...
ZTE has signed an agreement with Mongolia's Information & Communications Technology Authority (ICTA) to build the country's first commercial international NGN system. Ericsson and Cisco will ...
Six mobile vendors (Nokia, Ericsson, Broadcom, NEC, Texas Instruments and Panasonic Mobile) file EU antitrust complaint against Qualcomm for anticompetitive behavior and reluctance to license ...
Lucent' s results: Lucent posted 3Q05 earnings of $374m, down 69%, on revenues of $2.43bn, up 1%. Fiscal year (ended Sept. 30) results were: net income of $1.2bn (down 40%) and revenues of $ ...
Alcatel' s results: Alcatel said its 3Q05 net income rose 36% to €266m, and its revenues grew 8.8% to €3.3bn. The operating profit fell 25% to € 278m and the target of a yearly operating margin of ...
NEC reports 6-month (from March to Sept.) net profit down 35% to $142m and sales fell 3% to $19bn. Those numbers hide in fact a six-fold climb in profit for 3Q05 to $237m, while sales dropped 1.2% ...
Fujitsu announced 6-month (from March to Sept.) net profit of $66m (vs profit of $71m a year ago) while sales were down 1.2% to $18.9bn. 3Q05 net profit was $44.6m and sales fell 3.8% to $ 10bn. ...
Ericsson is to buy most assets of Marconi (UK) for € 1.8bn. Most of assets will be transferred to Ericsson, including the brand, about 6700 employees, and all optical networking business, ...
France Telecom' s results: FT posts 3Q05 revenues of €12.2bn, up 3.8%, of which €5.6bn (flat) in fixed-line unit. FT cuts its target of yearly sales growth to 3% instead of 3-5%. EBITDA rose 2% to ...
Verizon' s results: Verizon posted 3Q05 revenues of $19bn, up 4.6%, an operating income flat at $3.6bn, and net profit of $1.9bn, up 4%. Wireline revenues were flat at $ 9.4bn, while wireless ...
Bellsouth' s results: It reported a 2.3% increase in 3Q05 net profit, without Cingular impact, to $817m, while revenues were almost flat at $5.1bn. Cingular reported $8.7bn in revenues and a 56% ...
Sprint Nextel' s results: It announced that pro forma consolidated revenue rose 8% to $11.2bn, with wireless accounting for 72% to $8.1bn (up 12%) and local revenues at $1.7bn (+5%) and long ...
According to CSFB, in the US, cable companies added a net 1m broadband customers in 3Q05, while telcos added 1.3m new users. According to IDC, the IMS market will become a $14bn market by 2010. ...
Mobile phones to be used as payment machines: It could be the next big application for mobile devices. The phone is used to pay on line any small purchase in stores, automatic tellers, ticketing ...
Like a phoenix: AT&T AT&T is not dead. The universal awareness of the ATT brand that has been around for well over a century has been chosen by SBC to continue its operations. It is a clever ...
Mobile and telecom enjoys increased VC The mobile market continues to attract venture capital financing in 3Q05, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National ...
Karel Van Miert has been named by the EU Commission as mediator on disputes in the Galileo satellite project. More than 1,300 Marconi employees could loose their jobs following Ericsson's purchase ...
Carriers World CEE 23-24/11 2005 Budapest, Hungary www.carriersworld.com/2005/cwcee Congress of Nanotechnology 2005 31/10-4/11 2005 San Francisco, CA USA http://nanotechcongress.com APOC 2005. ...
China added5.15m new mobile subscribers in September alone, bringing the total to 377.9m. Mobile teledensity reached 29%. Covad (USA) ended the third quarter of 2005 with approximately 578,400 ...
Google earned $381m in 3Q05, up more than 600%, on revenues of $1.58 bn, up almost 100%. Bell south earned $817m in 3Q05, up 2%, on revenues of $8.5bn, up 26%. The wireline business slipped 0.5% ...
KPN (NL) acquires NTT DoCoMo 2.2% stake in KPN Mobile. TDC (Denmark) launched MVNO operation in Norway, backed by Telenor. TPSA (Poland) has offered to buy FT' s 34% stake in PTK Centertel ...
China Telecom tries to launch IPTV services in five provinces, powered by ZTE. SBC has delayed for additional 6 months its target for reaching 18m households with its fiber-based IPTV, voice, and ...
ZTE posts 9-month profit of $104m, up 16%, revenues of $1.86bn, down 8%. Operating income rose 9% to $98m. ST Microelectronics announced 9-month revenues of $6.5bn (+1%), a gross margin of 33% ...
Ericsson has landed a new contract from Telemar/Oi (Brazil) to deliver its Mobile Organizer (EMO) solution. Motorola will upgrade the CDMA network of ViVO (Brazil). Huawei is still re-negotiating ...
ECI Telecom has received an order from Intelsat for its XDM Multi-Service Transport Platform (MSTP). It has also received an order from BayanTel (Philippines) to provide infrastructure for VOIP ...
Motorola announced its first VOIP open application-enabling platforms. Nokia unveiled a new WCDMA base station, the Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station. Samsung announced it has gained 200k mobile TV ...
Ciena announced the successful completion of interoperability testing and qualification of its ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Platform for IBM GDPS eServer. Fujitsu will add ADVA' s FSP 150 Fiber ...
Alcatel and Sun Microsystems sign major cooperation agreement on IT-based mobile core network solutions. Ericsson is to buy most assets of Marconi (UK) for €1.7bn. In a separate announcement,it ...
Nokia predicts that Chinese mobile subscribers would total 650m by 2008, up from a current 370m. In-Stat reports that one on three US wireless subscribers would use a mobile phone as their ...