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Japan had 26.5m broadband subscribers at the end of March, up 680k in a quarter. 8.8m customers are FTTH users. Mobile penetration in Saudi Arabia reached 89% by the end of March, with 21.5m customers. Serbia has 7.2m mobile customers (+1.8m) and penetration...
Telstra will slash 500jobs in call center units. Motorola will shut down its Adelaide software engineering factory.
The private sector failed funding the European navigation system, rival from the US GPS system. So the European Commission has decided to directly fund the project with public budget, but it will generate additional delays. The goal is now to have an...
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, China would have some 52m TD-SCDMA subscribers by 2011. Pioneer Consulting found that wireless backhaul is more cost-effective compared to wireline solutions for a 3G network scenario....
IBM launches a friendly bid on Swedish Telelogic, for about €560m in cash. Telelogic is number 1 in Europe for mobile apps and services integration. Microsoft enhances Office Live Meeting with fully integrated video, VOIP, multi-functions features, and...
Eutelsat is bidding for Satelites Mexicanos (SatMex). Colubris Networks is partnering with Alstom for equipping trains with WLAN networks. First deployments will be in Italy' s Pendolino and France' s TGV. Cisco has shipped 900 of its Carrier Routing...
Nokia and Qualcomm continue legal battles. After many patent suits on both sides in the past few years, Nokia has filed another suit against Qualcomm for patent infringements in Qualcomm' s MediaFlo mobile TV system and its Brew mobile data system. InfoSpace...
NSN has won the contract from Tele2 AB to build a pan-European DWDM 40Gbit/s network. ALU announced a €10m order from Telekom Malaysia to provide a 10 gigabit next generation IP/Ethernet network. It won also an order from US Virginia public safety Hampton...
Ericsson has received a $1bn order from China Mobile to expand its GSM core radio network. It has signed a $65m contract with ICE (Costa Rica) for 300k new mobile lines. Nokia will provide PCCW (HK) a mobile e-mail platform. AsiaInfo will provide billing...
BCE (Canada) is still for sale and speculation continues to develop. Several groups are interested, including Canada Pension Plan Investment Board + Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Cerberus, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and now Onex, a Canada's biggest buyout...
