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Market Corner (1) - 20/08/08
A few set of market information released this week: USA: champion of mobile internet subscribers according to Nielsen, with 40m users or 15.6% penetration. The UK and Italy followed with respectively 12.9% and 11.9%. According to Point Topic, there were...
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Subscriber stats - 20/08/08
France has 11.3m mobile internet users (penetration of around 20%). Spain added 540K new mobile subscribers in 1H08 to bring its base to 51m. Portugal has 1.9m mobile broadband subscribers and 1.6m fixed internet users. MTS (Russia) had 87m mobile users...
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Vendor Corner - 20/08/08
Apple has launched its App Store alongside the worldwide launch of the iPhone 3G. It is on track to sell some 4.5m iPhones worldwide in 3Q08. Convergys has agreed to buy rival Intervoice for $355m. Pirelli will take a 30% stake in photonic expert CyOptics....
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Awards - 20/08/08
ALU is providing WiMAX Rev-e network for the University of Ireland and for VTEL in Georgia. It will deploy packet-optical transport technology for IP network transformation in Shanghai for China Mobile. It has been selected by Chilean Gtd Manquehue to...
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Operator Corner/ Europe - 20/08/08
BT announces a plan to invest £1.5bn in fiber-based broadband deployment to reach 10m households by 2012. It has bought online business directory Ufindus for £20m, and internet-phone software developer Ribbit for $55m. Vodafone is said to be interested...
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Operator Corner/ APAC - 20/08/08
Vimpelcom/ Altimo have bought a 90% stake in the Cambodian operator Sotelco. China Telecom plans a $4bn CDMA network expansion (network it will take over from China Unicom). China Unicom plans 3G capex of $14.6bn for the period 2009-2010. Some additional...
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Operator Corner/ Americas - 20/08/08
Digicel Barbados launches EDGE services. Digicel Caribbean has won a WiMAX license in Honduras. ATT asks the FCC not to approve the merger between Sprint and Clearwire. It has extended its iPhone exclusivity arrangement with Apple until 2010. America...
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Regulation Corner - 20/08/08
The European Regulators Group (ERG) criticizes the European roaming billing regime and specially on per-minute roaming rates. Mali plans to privatize incumbent telecom operator Sotelma before year-end. Armenia plans to tender a third mobile license in...
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People - 20/08/08
Celtel Kenya has named Rene Meza as its CEO. Jon Eddy Abdullah has been hired as Telenor Pakistan CEO. CEO Hector Ruiz will quit AMD . Sony Ericsson plans 2000 job cuts. Bell Canada cuts 2500 management jobs (15% of management). Four names circulate for...
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Subscriber stats - 07/07/08
Free (ISP in France) has 3.9m ADSL subscribers and is second in the French market to Orange with 7.6m. Third is Neuf- Cegetel-SFR with 3.7m. 3 UK has more than 3m customers in the U.K. Russia: Megafon subscriber base grew to 37m (+19%) at the end of 1Q08....
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Operator Corner (1) - 07/07/08
Orange has launched a new international marketing campaign with the brand tagline: “Together we can do more.” In addition, Orange launches a suite of new products, such as E-reader Read&Go (a sort of e-book with news, books and cartoons), 3D TV or E-Boutique...
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Operator Corner (2) - 07/07/08
ATT relocates its HQ to Dallas, Texas, from San Antonio. ATT is rumored to be close to buying stake in Indian operator Aircel ( 74% stake owned by Malaysian Maxis), but Maxis denied. Virgin Mobile USA buys MVNO Helio (a JV between SK Telecom and EarthLink)...
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Financial Performance - 07/07/08
CSFB cut its estimates on Ericsson following Sony Ericsson’s profit warnings. Lehman Brothers raised its price target on Qualcomm by 6% to $55. Sony Ericsson warns lower 2Q sales and net income as demand is slowing and new products launch would be delayed....
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Regulation Corner - 07/07/08
EU: Both the EU Commission and the EU Parliament oppose the French decision to tax ISPs to compensate the stop of advertisement on state-owned TV channels. EU approves the purchase of Navteq by Nokia for about €5.5bn A new wind is blowing in Europe :...
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iPhone 3G: every party wins!!
Three parties are involved in this business: Apple, the operator and the user. For Apple, iSupply considers that Apple will receive about the same amount (i.e. $500) per iPhone 3G unit as it did for the iPhone 2G. But with much larger volume, component...
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Nokia takes control of Symbian
Nokia was one of the founder of Symbian, aimed at developing and marketing a mobile OS. It had already a 48% stake in the company, and other shareholders were Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens and Samsung. Symbian is the market leader with a...
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Market Corner - 29/06/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Gartner, there currently are 1bn PCs in use, and it projects that 2bn PCs would be in use by 2014. Almost 60% of the installed base is in Europe, NA and Japan, serving 15% of the world population....
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Vendor Corner - 29/06/08
Nokia buys another social networking firm Plazes (Germany), after Tango last year, both of them to be added to its OVI platform. Several R&D engineers in its 4G research team have been recruited by MimoOn (Germany), a developer of software-defined radio...
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Awards - 29/06/08
Fujitsu has received a significant order from China Mobile for its SPARC Enterprise servers, its ETERNUS storage equipment and its PRIMECLUSTER middleware. NSN will expand Asiacell' s 2G network in Iraq. ALU has been selected by Telenor to provide an...
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Operator Corner (1) - 29/06/08
FT plans to enter Algeria in 2008 either by acquiring a private telecom operator or by winning a 3G license. Newspapers in France relate that FT is keen to sign a deal with Teliasonera by the end of the week. Numericable (France) will launch ADSL services...
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Financial Performance - 29/06/08
Motorola' shares sink to its lowest level since 2003 on pessimistic outlook. Sony Ericsson warns on profit. It said that it will only break even and that mobile phone shipments would be flat in 2Q08. RIM reports very good results with a profit jumping...
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Regulation Corner - 29/06/08
FCC detailed plans for a 25MHz block of spectrum to be used for a single nationwide license AWS-3 and free wireless broadband. EU plans to cut mobile termination rates by as much as 70% and promote truly cost-oriented termination rates to increase competition....
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People - 29/06/08
Yahoo still in trouble: several top managers would quit the company. Brad Garlinghouse in charge of communication tools, was supporting a re-organization the portal; Qi Lu, executive VP in charge of search engine technologies would also be on the leave;...
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Market Corner - 22/06/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Juniper Research, there would be 816m mobile banking customers by 2011, generating some 37bn transactions per year. Bank of America currently has 1m mobile customers after one year of service....
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Subscriber stats - 22/06/08
Denmark : there currently were 6.2m mobile users, 2.8m fixed lines, 2m broadband subscribers, 363k VOIP users and 48k triple-play subscribers. Africa : 300 m mobile subscribers and a mobile penetration rate of about 30%, of which 82m in West Africa and...