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Unlimited !!
You probably have already noticed that the word is fashionable ans is employed more and more often into news and comments. It seems it is a deep trend into the economy, as the word surfaced for years as a dream. Now it is more and more real for the benefit...
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Market Corner - 22/03/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to M:Metrics, the iPhone is the most popular handset for accessing news and information on the mobile Web in the US. 85% of iPhone users are accessing news and information; 31% are watching...
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Subscriber figures - 22/03/08
The EU Commission reports that there were 88m 3G users at the end of 2007, or a penetration of 20%. 50,000 new high-speed broadband Internet connections were added each day in 2007. Ericsson said there were 180m WCDMA subscribers worldwide , and that...
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Vendor' s corner
Nokia continues to push its content strategy by dealing with EMI for unlimited music download service. It made a deal with ACME Tele Power to offer efficient operation, maintenance and energy management solutions to telecom operators. AeroMobile announced...
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Operator' s corner - 22/03/08
China Mobile said it has already begun working with Vodafone and another unnamed operator on next-generation TD-SCDMA, called TD-LTE. DT is buying 20% of Greek incumbent OTE for €2.5bn. T-Mobile USA is using cellular/ WiFi dual mode technology to help...
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Results - 22/03/08
Golden Telecom (Russia), now part of Vimpelcom , reports strong results with 2007 net income at $153m (+78.5%) on revenues of $1.3bn (+52%). CANTV (Venezuela) said its 4Q07 net profit fell 57% to $77m and its 2007 net profit fell 9% to $50m. Hutchinson...
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Regulation - 22/03/08
FCC : a success for the 700 MHz auction in the US, with almost $20bn in revenues collected in 261 rounds, 214 applicants of which over 100 received spectrum. The big winners are Verizon Wireless and ATT Mobility spending over 2/3 of the total revenues...
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People - 22/03/08
Eric Besson is the French State Secretary to the Digital Economy Development. Two more Board members are leaving Sprint Nextel : Keith Bane (ex Motorola) and Linda Koch Lorimer (Yale University) would not ask for re-election. Vodafone will streamline...
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Market Corner - 16/03/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, the worldwide number of IPTV customers increased to over 12m at the end of 2007. 57% were in Western Europe. France accumulated 5m subscribers, the US about 1m as well as China....
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Global vendor strategies - 16/03/08
Apple announced that over 100k iPhone SDK (development kit) were downloaded in the four days following its launch. It also launched iFund to stimulate iPhone and iTouch applications development. Best developments will be granted a jackpot. $100m are available...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 16/03/08
NexWave introduces mobile TV and digital audio over WiMAX solutions, using its MXtv solution. ALU will integrate NextWave' s MXtv technology into its WiMAX portfolio. It is a second important win for NextWave after Huawei. Airspan has signed a non-exclusive...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 16/03/08
Rumor circulating: Asian mobile phone makers may be in talks with Motorola about possible partnerships. Ericsson is faster than rivals to announce infrastructure and device platforms for deployment in the 700MHz band. It also supports MBMS (Multimedia...
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Fixed orders - 16/03/08
Ericsson is supplying OTE (Greece) with IPTV infrastructure, systems integration and service operations such as VOD. Huawei secures optical access equipment (SmartAX MA5600T series) procurement from China Netcom. Airspan will expand Tricom' s WiMAX network...
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Mobile orders - 16/03/08
NSN will deploy its location based system LBS into Telkomsel' s network (Indonesia), and will supply Fastweb (Italy) with MVNE (mobile virtual network enabler) technology. Huawei is providing USB keys E270 and Express Card E870 for 7.2Mbit/s HSDPA services....
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Global operator strategies - 16/03/08
Canada plans to introduce a new national operator. The auction is to begin on 27 May 2008. France Telecom/ Viaccess buys Orca Interactive for €14m. Orca is an IPTV supplier and will fit into FT' s IPTV strategy. NTT plans to sell its 35% stake in Sri...
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Fixed operator strategies - 16/03/08
Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) plans to invest $1.5bn for expanding its fiber-optic network by 2012, of which $1.3bn in MSAN, VDSL2, EPON, ...and $300m in fiber optic gear. Most of networking equipment will be procured from local manufacturers. Energy City...
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Mobile operator strategies - 16/03/08
Softbank (Japan) plans to deploy 3G femtocell technology in October. Sprint Nextel has introduced an HTC smartphone working with EV-DO Rev A. speeds. Yoigo (Teliasonera in Spain) will use Telefonica' s Movistar 2G and 3G networks to cover about 50% of...
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Microsoft: future world class ASP?
Last week two important news were issued on related matter. The first one is a survey reporting that around 30% (double of 2004 figures) of US SMBs are currently using SaaS solutions (software-as-a -service), and that MBs (medium sized firms 500-999)...
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NA capex: up in 4Q07
Ovum has published a report on NA operator 4Q07 revenues and spending. In wireline, revenues were flat at $43.8bn, but capex increased by 12.4% to $8.8bn. Capex was driven by broadband (switching and routing as well as optical networking) and NGN new...
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WiMAX / Satellite Interference
According to the Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG), WiMAX and FSS (fixed satellite services) co-location in the C-band spectrum poses a significant interference threat. The results of field tests show that an FSS antenna cannot be in...
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Optical networking overview
Ovum-RHK reports its latest forecasts in the global optical networking market. 4Q07 sales amounted to $4.4bn, up 30% and 2007 revenues would be around $15bn. In the quarter, the market was driven by spending on NGN products and new submarine systems....
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Market Corner - 09/03/08
A few set of market information released this week: VIA and Bitway will deliver a green, low-power, low-cost (€310) PC for the Brazilian market. According to Nielsen Mobile, 23% of US mobile users reported seeing an ad on their phone in the past month,...
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Global vendor strategies - 09/03/08
Motorola is looking for a new leader for its struggling mobile phone unit. Meanwhile, Carl Icahn has increased its stake in the company to 6.3% (from 5% last month). Carl Icahn favored a sale of the mobile phone unit. NSN outsources R&D to Tata Consultancy...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 09/03/08
Nokia plans to embed Microsoft’ s Silverlight technology on its handsets. Mitsubishi will go out the mobile phone market. Ningbo Bird (China) will sell its 50% stake in its handset joint venture with Sagem Mobile to Safran (France) for about €15m. ALU...
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Fixed contracts - 09/03/08
Ericsson will supply IMS-based personal multimedia communication, such as video conferencing and call center, for the Beijing Olympics, to Beijing Netcom. Samsung has received a contract from UQ Comms (Japan) for Wibro mobile WiMAX equipment. ALU and...