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Operator corner 2 - 13/04/08
FT will launch Orange internet TV services with Eutelsat in France and Poland, and with SES Astra in Spain. Vodafone and BT announced a 5-year managed network solutions deal in the UK. Vodafone will be able to use BT' s 21CN Ethernet services for backhauling....
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Operator corner 1 - 13/04/08
Singtel (Singapore) plans to upgrade its broadband wireless networks in Singapore and six more countries to 40 Mbit/s over the next 2-3 years. Telecom NZ plans to invest $1.1bn in the fiscal year 2009 to upgrade its network (optical, broadband and mobile)...
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Financial performance - 13/04/08
Aperto Networks has raised $20m in a new equity financing. Ericsson reports 2007 sales of €20bn and net profit of €3.3bn at the annual shareholding meeting. Ericsson said it accounts for over 800 networks, 1bn subscribers worldwide. Huawei expects to...
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Regulation corner - 13/04/08
The EC decided it will OK in-flight calls. For that, it will recommend using GSM 1800 MHz technology for ensuring interoperability among parties, but leaves airliners to install picocells on planes and define guidelines for “good behavior” in flight....
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People - 13/04/08
ATT has appointed John Donovan as its CTO, replacing Chris Rice , who is appointed VP of ATT' s Shared Services division.. Dave Dorman , a former ATT CEO, will become next Motorola ' s non executive chairman, when current chairman Ed Zander retires from...
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Top 10 MNOs in LATAM
The Latam mobile market is very competitive, and, either by subscriber base or by net additions, can rival with other markets. The top 10 mobile operators account for a combined 240m subscriber base, but behind, there were lots of small operators with...
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Market Corner - 06/04/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Samsung, it held a 31% market share in the French mobile phone market, ahead of Nokia with 24% in February. CTIA comments: LTE deployment could be sooner rather than later. Commercial deployments...
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Vendor Corner - 06/04/08
Motorola: Happy Birthday it is the 35 th anniversary of the first cellular phone call (3 rd April 1973). Videocon (India) has expressed interest in Motorola' s mobile phone unit. Videocon is already manufacturing consumer electronics and home appliances....
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Awards - 06/04/08
Huawei has signed an agreement with Etisalat (UAE). Ericsson has inked a contract with Far EasTone (Taiwan) for HSPA expansion. It will deliver its mobile softswitch solution to Telstra (Australia), as well as to Celcom (Malaysia). It will be the sole...
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Operator Corner
Verizon Wireless announced it will launch its future LTE network in the 700 MHz spectrum (C Block licenses including open access provisions) around 2010. ATT Mobility also claims victory in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, adding it avoided any extra regulations...
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Financial Performance - 06/04/08
RIM expects to double its revenues to $2.3bn in FYQ1, beating analysts' consensus. Revenues breakdown would be 81% for handsets, 14% for service and 3% for software. In FYQ4, RIM reported revenues of $1.9bn, up 100%. RIM added 2.2m BlackBerry customers...
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Regulation Corner
Mexico' SCT and Cofetel are planning to conduct auctions for WiMAX and 3G frequency bands. Five new telephony licenses would be issued. The EU plan to create a super telecom regulator may fail, as Pilar de Castillo, a Member of the EU Parliament in charge...
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People - 06/04/08
Motorola announced more layoffs. It will cut another 2600 jobs, bringing its total cuts in 2008 to over 10,000. Since January 2007, Motorola has cut more than 10% of its workforce. Motorola is to close its handset manufacturing operations in Singapore...
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Google in wireless business, again!!!
Google was the main absent (apparently voluntarily) in the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction in the US. It did not buy any spectrum, in spite of its previously declared interest in mobility. A marketing attitude to lure rivals? Why not? In fact Google is...
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Global wireline market
Ovum posted its 4Q07 analysis of revenue trend market share changes in the wireline infrastructure segment. Equipment sales were up 18% in 2007, with switching and routing, cable TV and optical networking growing over 19% each, but DSLAM segment growing...
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Market corner - 30/03/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to NSN, wind and solar technologies would be used extensively to power remote base stations by 2011. ABI Research forecasts that the fixed-mobile convergence market could grow to 250m users...
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Subscriber figures - 30/03/08
China had 565m mobile subscribers and 362m land-line users by the end of February. China Netcom had about 20m broadband internet users (+37%). South Africa : 1m broadband subscribers of which some 415k are ADSL and 480k are 3G/HSDPA. India : teledensity...
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Vendor corner - 30/03/08
Motorola could be split into two publicly traded companies. The announcement is nevertheless yet too vague. The company's board is just starting to analyze the process and it could not necessarily go to the separation. It could be just a manoeuvre to...
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Awards - 30/03/08
Nortel has secured a 5-year contract with US Cellular for upgrading its CDMA network, and received $100m order from BSNL (India) for additional GSM lines. SkyLink has selected Nortel for the provision of a CDMA 1X EV-DO Rev. A solution in Russia. Ericsson...
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Operator corner (2) - 30/03/08
ATT and NTT join the Trans-Pacific Express Consortium (TPE), to build an 18,000-km fiber-optic submarine system between APAC and the USA (to be completed in early 2010). ATT Mobility will launch its long-awaited mobile TV service (based on MediaFLO technology)...
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Operator corner (1) - 30/03/08
Altimo filed a lawsuit against Telenor for delaying Vimpelcom' s entry into the Ukrainian market. It is just another episode in the several years dispute over the direction of the jointly owned firm. Telecom Italia would reinvest proceeds from the sale...
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Financial Performance - 30/03/08
China Netcom posts 2007 net income of $1.7bn, down 7%, on revenues of $11bn, up 1%. Innovative business revenues (broadband and multimedia) accounted for 35% of revenues in 2007, or $4bn. 3 Group (HK) reports 2007 EBITDA of $154m (vs a loss last year)...
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Regulation corner - 30/03/08
Afghanistan is planning to sell nearly 80% of its telecom unit, Afghan Telecom. OFCOM (UK) will allow airlines to offer mobile communications services on UK-registered aircraft. The US mobile phone industry recommends FCC to license and auction vacant...
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People - 30/03/08
Sprint Nextel has named Steven Elfman to the position of president of network operations and wholesale. Dee Dutta, Sony Ericsson' s CMO, will quit the company at the end of March. Raoul Roverato will become FT Orange' s New Growth Businesses. Ethan Beard,...
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Edito 22/03/2008
I abandoned the edito item for a while, but it is a good way to easily communicate with my readers. I would like to underscore that the current issue is the two hundredth issue since the beginning in 2004. I am pleased to collect information every day,...