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Happy Birthday Telcoflash!
End of January is a milestone for Telcoflash. We celebrate the third birthday of the newsletter and the second of its web life. Telcoflash was launched in early 2004 and in January 2005 the blog Telcoflashnews was opened in order to make information retrieval...
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Alcatel-Lucent: Day 1
Alcatel has bought Lucent and the new company has started operations today. The giant has sales of about €19bn, equally split between Eurooe, North America and ROW, with Pat Russo at the helm and S. Tchuruck as non-executive president. The company has...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 21/10/07
Nokia introduces touchscreen user interface on its own Series 60, and will offer the upgraded UI to rivals on a licensing basis. The move, of course, is made to counteract Apple' s disruptive iPhone offering. Will the Nokia brand dominance be enough to...
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Operator results - 16/09/06
Globecomm reports FY4Q06 net earnings of $1.5m, up 40%, on revenues of $36m, up 33%. Tiscali reports 1H06 net loss of €74m (vs profit of €15m) on revenues of €412m, up 17%. EBITDA rose 22% to €64m. Fastweb (Italy) announced 2Q06 net loss of €18m (down...
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Global operator strategies - 10/06/07
It is done: DT is buying Orange NL, the FT mobile arm in Holland, for €1.3bn, while FT has bought DT' s Spanish unit Ya.com for €320m. FT will reach with this move a 18% ADSL market share in Spain. The Telecom Council of the European Union has endorsed...
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Awards - 13/10/08
ECI Telecom will deploy its 9000 Ethernet switch router family and XDM multi-service platform for a fiber network project for Triton Telecom across Caribbe, including Florida. ADVA has been selected by THUS (UK) for providing intelligent Ethernet access...
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Fixed operator strategies - 28 May 2005
Optus is trialling wireless broadband from Alvarion and IPWireless. Bellsouth, SBC and Verizon have requested information (RFI) from vendors on gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) for the next phase of their broadband fiber build-outs. A request for...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 30/05/07
Nokia China plans to sell 3G TD-SCDMA handsets in China in 1H08. It has finished building its new China Headquarters in Beijing- Yizhuang for about $458m (including a R&D center and a manufacturing plant. Nokia Taiwan has a local market share of about...
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Global operator strategies - 19/04/07
Google swallows DoubleClick for $3.1bn. FT has announced it bought 51% of Lightspeed Comm (Bahrain) through its Jordan Telecom affiliate. Lightspeed offers VOIP, VOD and data services. AT&T confirms it has withdrawn from talks to buy a stake in TI. Intelsat...
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Mobile operator strategies - 09/03/08
Vodafone Germany would offer to its customers a way to bypass roaming charges when abroad, using voice over IP. It also partners with Deutsche Bahn on a mobile ticketing trial using NFC-based solutions. Vodafone confirms its commitment to femtocell with...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 16/12/07
UTStarcom said it has launched IPTV services for Brasil Telecom in Brasilia. The service will be extended soon to south and mid-west regions. Nortel announced an enhanced version of its 8600 Metro Ethernet Routing Switch with more PBT capabilities. FiberHome...
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Fixed-line vendor orders N 54
Optibase will supply its MPEG MovieMaker 400 MPEG-4 encoding and streaming solution to Taiwan 's National Congress. Cisco is to provide its MPLS Interprovider solution to Infonet, and its 12000 Series routers to Internode ( Australia ). It will supply...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 11/04/07
The Nokia- Qualcomm licensing agreement has expired, but the dispute continues. NEC has developed a corn-based bioplastic for use in mobile phones and other portable devices. Palm is rumored to bundles Opera' s browser with its devices. LG Mobile continues...
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Global operator strategies - 04/03/07
Telemar (Brazil) has decided to unify its fixed, mobile, internet and entertainment services under the Oi brand The International Telecommunication Union has standardized the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance's HomePNA 3.1. HomePNA uses the telephone...
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Market researches - 23/10/05
IDC predicts that Western European HSDPA subscribers would be 40m in 2009. According to Arcep (French regulator), 360k lines are currently unbundled (up 41% qoq) and unbundled coverage reaches 1.042 sites. According to IDC, teleworkers were 650m worldwide,...
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Market -17-01-05 - N47
A few set of market information released this week: [ I-mode subscribers in France reached 1m mark. The I-mode operator, Bouygues Telecom, reported that women account for 40% and older than 31 account for 51%. [ UK Post Office is back on the telephony...
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Mobile operator strategies 2 - 03/02/07
China has rolled out 4G in Shanghai, within a project called the « FuTURE Project ». 3G is not yet available in the country, but it has issued Network Accessing License to 16,000 TD-SCDMA mobile phones. Iran is considering licensing a third mobile operator...
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Wireless Broadband in NA
Wireless Broadband in NA: Intense activity in the NA wireless broadband news. Operators, be they telcos, ISPs, MSOs, or satellite providers, are seeking ways to deliver high-speed data and voice services to consumers and businesses beyond their conventional...
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Mobile operator strategies - 24/07/06
Bulgaria's Mobiltel has extended its 3G services coverage to Varna and the resorts along the Northern Black Sea. SFR targets to cover 70% of of the French population by the end of 2007, while Orange targets the end of 2008. Tele2 has launched a GSM 1800...
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Smart phone news
Apple' s iPhone is a success. It outsold all smart phones in the US in July, and accounted for 1.8% of all mobile-handset unit sales to U.S. customers during the month. Partly due to this success, and partly under threat of recent Nokia announcement,...
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EU targets mobile roaming
The EU Commissioner does not find any justification for current high roaming costs. Furthermore, in spite of several previous warnings, European mobile operators have ignored the advice. So, the current strategy is more radical. EU has unveiled proposals...
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M&A activity: frenzied
M&A activity: frenzied Are we in 2005? Recent investments furiously look similar to M&A moves in the end of the 90s. A large company which is investing billion of dollars in a small company with almost no sales, recall me some famous operations before...
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Mobile TV ?
Mobile TV ? It is a hot topic, so do not wonder there are a lot of stories now. Through many announcements of planned mobile TV services and market researches, the current question is: Is there a market for mobile TV? Lest us start with recent market...
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Cellphone may "excite" the brain
Healthcare: New tests from an Italian research team found that cellphone placed near the head may excite an area close to the phone, and the effect last for about one hour after the cellphone usage. The study does not report if this is harmful or not....
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Mobile TV is alive!
Nobody knows what the market would be in a mid-term, in spite of market researches more or less optimistic, but players are very active on the subject. Everybody is preparing itself. Nine of the US TV broadcast groups (covering 85% of total TV households)...