Mobile operator strategies - 13/09/06
Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC), along with Nokia, will launch commercial mobile TV service in Vietnam. DT' Spain unit is close to launch MVNO services based on Telefonica network.
Subscriber figures - 13/09/06
Polkomtel (Poland) reported a mobile subscriber base of 10.4m (+32%) at the end of June. India adds 4.2m new mobile subscribers in August, bringing the total mobile base to over 112 m.
Operator results - 13/09/06
Neuf Cegetel (France) reported 1H06 net income of €107m (vs loss of €32m last year) on revenues of €1.4bn, up 116%.
People - 13/09/06
NTL has named Virgin's Gordon McCallum to its board. DT CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke announced further job cuts in company plans to make additional cost reductions
Huawei
Huawei is continuing to succeed in spite of many challenges in China and abroad, and to have a major impact on the telecom sector. Huawei announced that 1H revenues were $3.3bn and should be over $8bn (above target and +33% yoy) by the end of the year....
Alcatel- Lucent
A big step has been made after the shareholders of two companies approve on Sept. 7 the merger proposition. A single, while significant, hurdle remains before proceeding to the wedding: the approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...
3G overview
According to ABI Research, 3G subscriptions are forecast to hit 285 million by the end of 2006. That number includes WCDMA/UMTS and CDMA 2000 technologies. "Operators' overall capital expenditure will grow for the fourth year to reach $126bn (or an average...
Optical network sales
The optical network hardware performs very well in 2Q06 with a 20% growth qoq. Total industry revenue reached $3.1bn, according to Infonetics, and the market research company forecasts that for the year, the market should grow to $12.3bn worldwide. All...
Wireless Internet in Silicon Valley
The Wireless Silicon Valley Task Force has appointed Silicon Valley Metro Connect (with IBM and Cisco as memebers) to launch wireless Internet services for 2.4m inhabitants in the Silicon Valley. This Silicon Valley project is one of the biggest of its...
Private P2P
Built in Firefox navigator, AllPeers offers to share files between friends. On peer to peer mode, it allows sharing photos and files with its friends without any limit in file size or type. Download it and try it, it is free.