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Strategic Alliance: Yahoo- eBay
The two giants have announced a multi-year strategic alliance for developing on the NA market. It was in the air for several days, but now it is official. The alliance covers four major domains: internet search and advertising, online payments (using...
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Sonae (Portugal) warns on its PT bid
The Sonae' s bid on Portugal Telecom is going on, with Sonae buying last week about 1% of PT for $135m, a move that forces PT to open its books to Sonae under Portuguese law. After Vodafone complained to the Portugal's Competition Authority (PCA) about...
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WiMAX certification portfolio
The WiMAX Forum has selected Spain' s Cetecom to develop a Radio Conformance Test Tester (RCTT) for testing Mobile WiMAX. The test system includes a radio conformance test system (MINT T2110) for fixed and mobile WiMAX, a protocol conformance tester (MINT...
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Vonage IPO disaster
Vonage went to market last week with its much waited IPO, but its share price instantly plunged from $17 at the launch to $14.8 at the end of the day and down to $12.6 on Friday. As a result, Vonage saw its capitalization dropping to $2bn, down almost...
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Rumor: DT/ BT deal
BT share price went up on speculation of a tentative bid from DT on BT. It is suggested that DT should be primarily interested by BT' s international operations and could find a partner to buy what it is not interested in or not allowed by regulation...
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First multi-standard mobile TV chip
Qualcomm has unveiled its single-chip Universal Broadcast Modem (UBM) solution supporting three of the world's leading mobile broadcast standards: Flo technology, DVB-H and Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial (ISDB-T). The UBM chip...
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Telco positioning in W. Europe
Telco positioning in W. Europe It is no more the good old days for European incumbents. Monopolies are ended, competition is fierce and market shares are down. When put in figures, the situation is somewhat different according to the country and local...
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Valuable 3G customers ?
Valuable 3G customers ? It was expected by everybody, but information on the subject was relatively scarce or reverse. For Telenor, 3G customers (current 5% of its mobile subscriber base) are very valuable, as they account for 55% of the mobile data traffic....
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West Africa mobile wrap-up
According to Informa, West Africa could be Africa's fastest-growing market, reaching almost 34m (+92%) mobile subscribers at the end of March. Togo (130%), Niger (103%) and Ghana (103%) are the fastest-growing country markets. The largest mobile country,...
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The Managed Services Market
Where managed services can help? When an enterprise wants to improve its performance, align its processes with corporate objectives, reduce business risks and cut operating costs (all forming a common set of current enterprise targets), it has to face...
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Media giants turn to mobile
CBS has formally created CBS Mobile, a new division within CBS Interactive that will further develop the company's mobile operation, and launches 3 websites for for mobile users. Hearst Magazines is pushing into the mobile space with the introduction...
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Near Field Communications in EU
The EU Commission will fund a new pan-European consortium (made of companies, universities and user groups) to develop an open architecture for the development, deployment and use of Near Field Communications or NFC-enabled applications in mobile handsets....
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Mobile radio network sharing
Important move by two mobile giants. Vodafone and Orange announced they will share their radio access networks (RANs) in the UK. Of course, such a move will not be completed short term, but will be gradually implemented over a number of years. Rationales...
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2.75G + review
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...
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U-turn: not only mobile ?
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),...
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Power for mobile phones
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...
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BT 4Q06 and 9-mo reults
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...
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Alcatel-Lucent 4Q06 + Full Year Results
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,...
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Solution in sight in Turkey?
Let me recall facts: in 03/2005 Teliasonera signed a deal to buy a stake in Turkcell from Cukurova for $3.1bn, but later, Alfa offered a $3.3bn package and Cukurova canceled the deal and gave a 13% stake in Turkcell to Alfa. An international arbitration...
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EU BPL : OPERA
OPERA (Open PLC European Research Alliance) will launch the second phase of its project of boosting BPL adoption in Europe. The first phase was made of the adoption of the broadband over powerline technology at 200Mbit/s and developed by 37 companies....
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Low-cost PCs
China is manufacturing a €100 PC. It is not an OLPC (One Laptop per Child) developed by the MIT, but a classic low-cost PC developed for the rural Chinese population. The Tian En GX-2 is manufactured by Sichuan Sinomatic Technology in Chengdu, and includes...
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PT Series continues
The hostile take over bid by Sonaecom on Portugal Telecom is not finished. Even if Sonaecom has increased its offer to €10.5 a share (+10%), it does not include any significant premium. So, major PT shareholders have already rejected the offer. In addition,...
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FON strategy
FON, the Spain-based “social router” company, is providing La Fonera Wi-Fi routers for $30 to anyone who accepts to share its wireless access. In a attempt to enter the US market, it now offers free the La Fonera Wi-Fi router to anyone living within 1500...
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3G/ WiMAX comparison
According to Pyramid Research, WiMAX spectrum is far cheaper than 3G spectrum. Numbers can witness of the gap: in the UK, a 30 MHz national 3G license had cost €7.5bn, while a regional WiMAX license for the London area has cost €2.5m. When comparing the...
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Sprint Nextel 4Q06 results
Sprint Nextel said its 4Q06 consolidated OIBDA was $3.2bn, up 13%, on revenues of $10.4bn, up 7%. Capex was $2.6bn, up 42%. For the year, revenues were $41bn, up 7%, adjusted OIBDA was $12.7bn, up 12%; and capex was $7bn, up 13%. On the ARPU side, CDMA...