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Alcatel announced turnkey triple play win (€ 80m) with Wind in Italy. It reports also a huge deal ($1.7bn for Alcatel) with ATT to equip 19m households in the US by 2008 with the U-Verse project. A third big contract is signed with Telefonica for updating...
Alcatel has signed a global frame agreement with Vodafone to supply it with network equipment and services worldwide. Lucent signed additional contracts for repair and remote technical support services, as part of an expansion agreement signed in May,...
LG Philips reports 3Q06 net loss of €266m, vs profit last year, on sales of €2.3bn, flat. Sony Ericsson posts 3Q06 net profit of €298m, up 200%, on revenues of €2.9bn, up 42%. It has shipped 19.8m handsets in the quarter (+43%).
The APNG2 submarine cable between Papua New Guinea and Australia is operational since Oct. 1st . FT is launching the Orange brand in Russia, and Equant will bear the introduction. Expansion into the country is of course the first goal, but the move should...
The French government forecasts 4m fiber-based-passed households by 2012. WordTel (Bangladesh) plans to add 300k fixed-line telephones in Dhaka, the capital. Always on Network (AON) has signed a MoU for providing cheap Internet service in Bangladesh to...
Telstra has opened its 3G-HSDPA network, covering almost 100% of the Aussie population and about 25% of the country. Vodafone Egypt has bought majority stake in Egyptian ISP Raya Telecom for $43m. Vodafone New Zealand has bought service provider ihug...
T-Mobile USA has about 23.3m cellular subscribers. Globalcom (Nigeria) has connected about 8m cellular subscribers. Virgin Mobile is close to reach 5m subscribers. Bangladesh currently has about 9m mobile phone subscribers and around 1m fixed-line phones,...
Fastweb (Italy) announced 3Q06 revenues of €315m, up 2%, while EBITDA rose 40% to €113m. It reiterates full year targets.
Sprint Nextel Chairman, Tim Donahue , is retiring from the company’s board of directors. Ulrich Hocker has been appointed by DT to its supervisory board. AT&T names John Vladimir Slamecka as the head of AT&T EMEA
We could not imagine that Nokia is not focused on the future mobile network generation. According to the company, 3G technology evolution should be standardized by the end of next year, and Nokia forecasts that its commerial solution should be available...
