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Google will spend $100m for Internet content distributor FeedBurner. AT&T' s new CEO has outlined his plans and said ATT will expand its presence in foreign markets. France Telecom would make an entry on the Indian market with the purchase of the enterprise...
VSNL (India) will provide WiMAX in five Indian cities by April next year. Telstra, with G9 consortium (led by Optus) on its heels, plans to start its high-speed broadband network worth $4bn and to charge other telecom companies for using its new network....
US MVNO Amp’d filed for bankruptcy protection. With a strat 18 months ago, Amp'd was relatively successful with about 200k subscribers after a strong first quarter 2007. The company claims that its back-end systems have been unable to keep up with the...
France currently has 13.5m broadband subscribers. The EMEA region had over 89m mobile handset shipments in 1Q07, up 9%. Ecuador had a mobile subscriber base of 9m at hte end of April. Conecel is the largest operator with 66% market share. Over 200m customers...
Arcor (Germany) reports FY (ended in March) revenues of €2.8bn, up 10%, and net profit of €132m, up 81%. EBITDA is up 17% to €531m. MTS (Russia) reports 1Q07 revenues of $1.7bn, up 35%.
Randall Stephenson is the new CEO of AT&T, as Edward Whitacre officially retired this week.
Gartner unveiled its mobile phone market view with 1Q07 sales. The market grew 14% to 257.4m units shipped in the quarter, driven by strong demand in China, India, Japan and more generally in APAC. Nokia remains the indisputable leader with almost 92m...
The worldwide optical network hardware market was up 24% yoy, but down 8% sequentially, according to Infonetics Research. SONET/SDH equipment sales (currently 61% of total sales) are forecast to decline in the single digits each year from 2008 to 2010,...
The submarine system market rebounds. We now for a while that it is a cyclical market, but if it was pretty grim for a while (since 2002), it is now looking pretty good. Operators need large pipes to answer the increasing demand for bandwidth, so the...
According to Informa, UMTS/HSDPA has become the most widely deployed 3G technology and market leader, with 117m subscribers worldwide, and 167 operators in 69 countries offering UMTS services, far ahead of the 55m CDMA EV-DO subscribers and 71 operators...
