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3G is not yet established as a mature technology, that 4G is already (almost) there. Proof, if necessary, is the DoCoMo trial and demo of a 5Mbit/s link, or Ericsson demonstrating 3G+ LTE at 144Mbit/s. Does it make sense to be in a such hurry when services...

It is known for several decades, telecom is a powerful economic growth engine (remember the JIPP curve and the link between GDP and subscriber numbers). Mobility has relayed fixed telephony, but the rule is almost the same. The larger subscriber numbers...

Vodafone will pay $11bn in cash for the 67% stake of Hutchison Telecom in Hutchison Essar, and plans to acquire the remaining 33% stake from the Essar group or to be their partner. It has agreed to allow the Bharti Group to buy 5.6% of the interest, or...

With 60% market share in Turkey and a solid mobile user base fo almost 32m, Turkcell needs to expand at home first with a move into the fixed broadband space, where competition is not sharp (a single provider: Turk Telecom), but also with building quality...

The MIT researchers could have fixed a problem that has long plagued fiber-optic networks: how to easily transmit light waves over long distance, harnessing full power and speed. Light waves gradually weaken over distances and tools to fix it are today...

The results for the fourth quarter are clearly disappointing. For 4Q06, Alcatel-Lucent reports pro-forma net loss of €(618)m, vs an income of €381m in 4Q05, on revenues of € 4.4bn, down 16% to €4.4.bn. For 2006, it announced pro-forma revenues of €18.2bn,...

BT announced 4Q06 revenues of €7.7bn, up 5%, EBITDA of €2.1bn (+2%), a profit before taxation of €958m (+17%). For 9-mo, revenues were €22.4bn, up 4%, EBITDA grew 2% to € 6.2bn, and profit before taxation rose 23% to €2.8bn. Capex rose 8% to €3.5bn. The...

It is the weakest point of mobile phones. On one side, power consumption is increasing with new power-hungry features (color screen, camera, memory capacity, .;) and the other side batteries frequently need to be reloaded and there always have a short...

U-turn: not only mobile ? Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg explained during the earning conference call that Ericsson does not want to be exclusively in the mobile market. With less optimistic view on the mobile market (lower growth in 2007+, lower margins),...

196 networks have commercially launched EDGE in 105 countries, and 62 more have committed to the EDGE enhancement. Geographical breakdown reveals 96 networks in Europe, 81 in Americas, 44 in MEA (Middle East & Africa) and 37 in Asia. 96 operators are...