Operator results - 9/10/05
Fastweb (Italy) reports 3Q05 EBITDA of €80m, up 40%, and revenues up 39% to € 258m.
Mobile operator strategies - 9/10/05
IranCell (Iran) announced that MTN (South Africa) has deposited most of the fee required to secure a 49% stake in IranCell. MTN was in the race with Turkcell, but was reluctant to deposit these funds in full. If true, this could mean that Turkcell' s...
Fixed operator strategies - 9/10/05
MCI shareholders have overwhelmingly approved Verizon's $8.4bn acquisition of the company. AOL is buying Weblogs, a niche Web-site company operating 85 "niche" Internet sites. Covad Communications is buying WiMAX wireless ISP NextWeb Inc. for $25 m. Boingo...
Global operator strategies - 9/10/05
EU approves public funding in the UK for broadband access project aimed at bridging the "digital divide" in some areas of England. Wales, France and Spain have already benefited from similar programs. Magyar Telekom , Hungary incumbent, is mulling merging...
Mobile orders - 9/10/05
Ericsson and Siemens will deliver 3G network infrastructure to PTC (Poland).
Fixed orders - 9/10/05
Nexans has won a contract from GE Transportation Rail to manufacture and supply specialized balise cables to be used in the upgrading of Italy's rail network.
Fixed vendor strategies - 9/10/05
Tellabs is looking at the soon-to-come GPON market. By adding GPON blades to its existing edge (Tellabs 8800) or access (AFC 1000 Series) routers, Tellabs wants to create a new type of box mixing flow-based QOS with GPON. The move is not really original,...
Global vendor strategies - 9/10/05
CheckPoint is to buy Sourcefire, a world-class solution maker for internal security through their Intrusion Sensor, Real-time Network Awareness (RNA), and Defense Center product lines. The deal is valued at $225m. Comverse is buying the GSS division,...
Market researches - 0/10/05
According to IDC, camera phone shipments could reach 179m by 2009 in Western Europe. According to the FTTH Council, the research listed 652 FTTH communities in 46 states in the US, and 322,700 connected homes. The 'U.S. FTTH Communities 2005' list is...
Internet status
Internet status In about 10 years, Internet succeeded to gather about 1bn subscribers, of which more than 50% in WE and NA. Some developing countries are, however, doing well, such as China that crossed the 100m mark, or India with about 40m (+684%)....