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Global vendor strategies - 15/11/06

Motorola has succeeded a coup in buying Good Technology, whose products offer email synchronization between handhelds and enterprise email systems (mainly Lotus of IBM or Exchange of Microsoft), and challenging dominant Blackberry from RIM or Treo from...

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Mobile vendor strategies - 15/11/06

Motorola and Qualcomm will collaborate on W-CDMA handsets for global markets. Motorola will use Qualcomm' s 3G chip for its W-CDMA handsets. Qualcom announced it has integrated W-CDMA and HSDPA features into a single chip, refered as WEDGE (W-CDMA and...

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Fixed contracts - 15/11/06

Nortel is delivering enhanced optical network for NTL-Telewest in the UK to deliver triple play services to end-users. It provided Sonofon (Denmark) with a Metro Ethernet Networking wireless backhaul solution. ZTE is delivering high resolution video and...

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Mobile contracts - 15/11/06

Ericsson will supply a WCDMA/ HSDPA network to CMT (Macau). It will be the sole supplier. Motorola has signed a huge $1.6bn supply contract with Chinese Shenzhen Telling Telecom Development distributor for mobile handsets.

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Global operator strategies - 15/11/06

Telefonica has bought almost 8% stake in local phone operator PCCW. Helped by two charitable foundations (12% stake) and a HK businessman Francis Leung (2.7% stake), they will have a controlling stake of about 23%. Telefonica is already a partner with...

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Fixed operator strategies - 15/11/06

BT has applied for licenses to offer national and international long distance services in India. It will partner with India's Jubilant Enpro to offer these services in the country. It will invest around $1.6m in cash for its 74% stake in the joint venture...

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Mobile operator strategies - 15/11/06

Brasil Telecom plans to deploy mobile WiMAX networks in the southern cities of Porto Alegre and Curitiba, using its licenses it has in the 3.5 GHz and 10.5 GHz bands. Vodacom (S. Africa) has received the permission from its shareholder Vodafone to expand...

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Subscriber figures - 15/11/06

Orascom Telecom reported that it had 46.5m mobile subscribers (+83%) in 7 countries at the end of Sept, of which 21m in Africa ((Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Zimbabwe), and 20m in Pakistan. Its proportional subscriber base expanded by 100% to 36.9m. Vodacom...

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Operator results - 15/11/06

Orascom Telecom reported a 35% jump in revenues to $3.2bn, a 37% increase in EBITDA to $1.4bn, and a 12% increase in net income to $550m. Telkom SA (South Africa) posts a 5% rise in FY1H07 net profit to $621m, on revenues of $3.5bn, up 7%. Telecom Personal...

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