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People - 08/06/08
Arun Sarin , Vodafone CEO, will quit the company at the end of July, after 5 years in charge. Vittorio Colao, current head the carrier’s European business, will take his place. Hutchison Telecom said its CFO Tim Pennington has resigned. ALU has appointed...
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Market Corner - 25/05/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to M:Metrics, US mobile web users are spending an average of about 4.5 hours per month browsing the mobile Web, against 2.5hours in the UK. ABI Research estimates smartphones accounted for...
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Subscriber stats - 25/05/08
MTN (S. Africa) had over 68m (+58%) mobile subscribers at the end of March. China reports 582.5m mobile users at the end of April, up about 9m in the month, and 360m fixed line users, down 5.4m in the first four months. China Mobile added 7.4m new mobile...
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Vendor Corner - 25/05/08
Official: Videocon is in talks with Motorola about its mobile phone unit. Qualcomm has signed royalty bearing worldwide agreement with China Zhenhua, allowing Zhenhua to develop, manufacture and sell CDMA2000 subscriber units. Huawei is creating a new...
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Awards - 25/05/08
Nokia sold its 5310 XpressMusic phone to T-Mobile USA. It has won Orange as an OVI customer, and now provides all big European MNOs with entertainment services. NSN has been selected by Indosat (Indonesia) to provide a 3G service delivery platform (SDP)....
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Operator Corner (1) - 25/05/08
Sprint Nextel will start selling via its retail outlets its touchscreen Instinct phone from June 20. It is also rumored that Sprint Nextel will limit its “unlimited 3G plan” to 5Gbo, following rivals ' strategy. Sprint said it will launch its WiMAX network...
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Operator Corner (2) - 25/05/08
SK Telecom (S. Korea) plans to deploy a Wibro Wave 2 broadband network in Seoul (10Mbit/s upstream and 37Mbit/s downstream). Optus (Australia) will work with Huawei to develop a suite of new mobile broadband products. Smart Comms (Philippines) plans to...
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Operator Corner (3) - 25/05/08
Teliasonera will resell MTG/Viasat pay-TV packages to its own IPTV and broadband customers through six new channel packages. KPN and Reggefiber (NL) have formed a JV (49% KPN and 51% Reggefiber) to deploy a FTTH network in the city of Almere with 70k...
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Regulation Corner - 25/05/08
India expects a roll-out of 3G services by 01/20009 New Zealand' s government plans to create a broadband investment fund to build open-access fiber optic networks for businesses, Health and Education sectors in urban zones. OFCOM (UK) is removing regulations...
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Gartner warns of more telecom change
First Gartner analyses the current situation: during 20 years, operators have focused on efficiency, lowered their cost structure, but also increased their vertical integration with tighter coupling of business assets, despite some regulatory measures...
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IDC updates its IT spending forecasts
Worldwide IT spending would increase by 5.7% in 2008, but down from over 7% last year. 1Q08 IT spending were in line with the forecast, underscoring a global deceleration, driven by slowdown in demand and stagnant economy. Surprisingly, IDC continues...
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Telefonica 1Q08 results
Telefonica unveiled better than expected 1Q08 results. 1Q08 results amounted to €13.9bn, up 1%, but organic revenues growth was 7% ; with net profit rose to €1.5bn (+22%) and OIBDA rose 5% to €5.4bn (of which 48% in Spain, 35% in LATAM and 17% in ROE)....
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Sprint 1Q08 results
Sprint continues to report losses, but could see the end of its troubles. It reported $9.3bn (down 8%) in revenues, of which $8bn (-9%) in mobile and $1.6bn (+2%) in wireline. It reported a net loss of $505m, compared with a net loss of $211m last year....
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MVNO: not an easy market
Many companies try the MVNO adventure everywhere in the world. But success is more limited. Each week we heard of a MVNO collapse and global numbers are less than impressive. MVNOs only account for few percent of global subscriber figures. The latest...
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Market Corner - 18/05/08
A few set of market information released this week: Microsoft- Yahoo: not finished? Carl Icahn is trying to enter in the Yahoo Board with “friends” in order to unseat part of Yahoo' s board and relaunch the deal. In addition he bought 3.6% stake in Yahoo....
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Subscriber stats - 18/05/08
France : Orange added 331k new ADSL users in 1Q08, while Free added 137k and Neuf Cegetel only 77k. Subscriber bases are respectively 7.6m in France, 3m and 3.3m. BT reports 4.4m broadband users, and 214k customers to its BT Vision IPTV services at the...
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Vendor Corner - 18/05/08
Samsung and LG are working together to develop and promote a North American mobile digital TV standard. ALU Bell Labs and NTT Photonics Labs have signed a collaborative agreement focusing on optical packet switching technologies. ALU and Reliance Comms...
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Awards - 18/05/08
ALU signed a major contract with T-Mobile Germany to upgrade its network to EDGE. It also received a new contract from Globacom (Nigeria) to extend the network capacity and performance of its mobile and fixed networks. It will deploy an intelligent optical...
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Operator Corner (1) - 18/05/08
Another operator commits to LTE. Alltel (USA) has committed to LTE for a 4G network in four or five years. Verizon Wireless joins the LiMo Foundation that targets to deliver an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry. Verizon Business continues...
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Operator corner (2)- 18/05/08
Vodafone is holding talks with the government of Ghana to buy a majority stake in Ghana Telecom. It also plans a multi-million pound investment to extend its HSDPA network in the UK to 3m additional people. Vodafone has completed the purchase of remaining...
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Financial Performance - 18/05/08
Iliad/Free (France) reported 1Q08 revenues of €340m, up 22%. BT said its FY08 revenues rose 2% to £20.7bn, of which £8bn in its Global Services division (+8%), £8.5bn in BT Retail (+1.6%) and £3.7bn in BT Wholesale (-10%). EBITDA rose 2%. Clearwire (US)...
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Regulation Corner - 18/05/08
NZ Communications has bought mobile spectrum in the 800MHz/900MHz bands from operators Telecom and Vodafone, in order to redistribute cards in spectrum allocation and allow the emergence of a third mobile operator in the market. The Federation of Bosnia...
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People - 18/05/08
Samsung Electronics CEO and Vice Chairman Yun Jong-yong has stepped down; Lee Yoon-woo, current head of the group’s semiconductor business will took the helm. Chang-gyu will become Samsung Electronics' chief technology officer. Former Ericsson CFO Karl-Henrik...
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iPhone strategy changed?
Things are moving. Apple started selling its iPhone through exclusive deals, high priced devices and (high) revenue-sharing (numbers between 20% and 30% were rumored). The model seems working well in the US where ATT has sold some 10m units and gained...
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DT 1Q08 results
DT said its 1Q08 adjusted net profit rose 33% to €750m, with EBITDA at €4.7bn (almost flat) and revenues down 3% to €15bn. Revenues and EBITDA fell short of expectations, but net profit was better than expected. DT lost 120k fixed line users in the quarter,...