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Global operator strategies - 09/03/08
Yahoo would be in talks with Time Warner to counter Microsoft's bid. AOL USA would be at the center of the talks, with Time Warner taking a mall stake in a common JV. ATT plans to invest $1bn in capex this year to upgrade its international network; this...
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Fixed operator strategies - 09/03/08
France targets that 100% of French households have broadband internet access before 2012. Comstar Ukraine launches IPTV in Odessa city. MTL (Malawi) plans to invest $25m to build a fiber-optic infrastructure. Sonera (Finland) plans to invest in FTTH....
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Subscriber figures - 09/03/08
M6 Mobile (France) currently has about 1m subscribers. France reports 15.5m (+22%) broadband users in France at the end of 2007, of which 14.8m are ADSL. Unbundled lines account for 5m (of which 3.6m with total unbundling). Orange has 50% of ADSL lines,...
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Operator results - 09/03/08
US Cellular reports 4Q07 net income of $29m (down 46%) on operating revenues of $1bn (+13%). Preview of annual results would be $460- $535 net income and $3.9bn- $4bn in revenues respectively. Turkcell (Turkey) announced a 54% rise in 2007 net income...
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Chinese telecom reform: impact
The goal here is not to analyze the impact of the pending telecom reform in the Chinese market, but to highlight the impact in the global marketplace. The result of the announced telecom reform will be to create three new integrated telecom giants with...
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Human tissue is affected by radiations
A new study completed by a Finnish laboratory (STUK) found that mobile phone radiation can affect human tissue. An exposure to direct GSM signals of small area of skin of volunteers, for one hour, reveal that some skin proteins are significantly affected...
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2007 mobile phones market (Gartner)
In 2007, 1.15bn cellular phones (+16%) were shipped worldwide, according to Gartner. Nokia sold 435.4m units and gained a 37.8% market share. Motorola is second with 164.3m units shipped and a 14.3% market share. Samsung is just below with 154.5m units...
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CDMA subscriber base overview
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has announced that there were 431m CDMA subscribers worldwide. CDMA 2000 accounts for the bulk of the market with a share of 97%, with 417m (+16%) customers among the 250 networks worldwide. There were almost 91m of EV-DO...
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Infrastructure sharing
We heard for network sharing for years, but it is obvious that operators chose deploying their own 3G infrastructure. We acknowledged, however, from time to time some tie-up: here for mast or cell sites, there for radio and base stations. Analysys, however,...
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Market Corner - 02/03/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, there were 5m households passed with fiber (FTTH or FTTB) in Europe with 1m subscribers at the end of 2007. 201 projects are in deploying phase, most of them launched by municipalities...
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Global vendor strategies - 02/03/08
Siemens confirmed its decision to get out of the communications-hardware business (SEN unit and other call center business) and to become a software-and-solution provider only. SEN is the last remaining telecom asset apart from cordless phones. Motorola...
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Fixed vendor strategies- 02/03/08
NEC of America has launched its Service Convergence Integrated Platform (SCI-P), a new converged multimedia and SIP-based solution for the carrier market. Infinera unveiled a new product with a 400-Gbit/s photonic integrated circuit (PIC) at OFC/NOEFC....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 02/03/08
Analysts doubt that Apple will reach the goal of selling 10m iPhone units in 2008. According to developers and analysts, Android -based handsets would not be a mass market solution before two years. Opera Software has chosen back Google as its default...
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Fixed contracts -02/03/08
NSN will supply Brasil Telecom with an DWDM optical backbone network in North America. NEC and Tyco will lay down 10,000km of fiber optic submarine cable between Asia and the US for the Unity Consortium. Advanced Digital Broadcast will provide its ADB-3800W...
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Global operator strategies - 02/03/08
T-Mobile USA has completed the acquisition of SunCom; the move adds some 1.1m subscribers. Teliasonera has extended its international backbone into Eastern Europe, beginning in Ukraine. The Bahraini government will sell most of the 67% stake it holds...
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Fixed operator strategies - 02/03/08
KPN (NL) has signed a deal with Sprint Nextel to use its IP networks in North America. MGTS (Russia) plans to deploy a $100m ADSL2+ infrastructure with internet broadband speed up to 24Mbit/s. Hellas Sat will deploy use Newtec's Satellite Multimedia Broadband...
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Mobile operator strategies - 02/03/08
Qwest announced it is looking to re-negotiate its current mobile partnership (with Sprint Nextel), but Verizon Wireless said it has been in talks with Qwest about a possible wholesale agreement. 3 Australia plans expanding 3G coverage with network-sharing...
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Subscriber figures - 02/03/08
MetroPCS (USA) had almost 4m subscribers at the end of 2007. Vietnam currently has 18.6m internet users (+22%), of which 1.3m are broadband. Sprint Nextel ended 2007 with 53.8m subscribers, of which 35m (+11%) on its CDMA network, and 17.3m on iDEN (down...
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Operator results - 02/03/08
Metro PCS (USA) posted 4Q07 net loss of $47m,down from $17m last year, on revenues of $591m, up 31%. Telekom Austria reported full year revenues of €4.9bn, up 3.3%, and EBITDA of €1.9bn (down 3%). Sprint Nextel reports 4Q07 revenues of $9.8bn (-6%) and...
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People - 02/03/08
Siemens will lay off some 7000 workers, or 40% of SEN' s total headcount; about 3,800 in its Siemens Enterprise Communications unit and another 3,000 in its sold manufacturing and other units. Bernard Guehennec has been named as new CEO of Sogeti , the...
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Integrated telcos or not?
China is finalizing its telecom restructuring, and it is an opportunity to think at the telecom evolution and the future. What is outlined from the Chinese plan, and confirmed by various recent operator moves is the consolidation of different telecom...
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Unlimited plans
It the new fashion in the telecom market. Of course, it is not new, but the size, coverage and weight of players of new propositions are appealing. In short, main US mobile operators have launched or announced plans with flat-rate pricing. For $100 per...
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Mobile Open Source
Open source was one of the main topic in Barcelona MWC. Very fierce competition for market domination, but it is not easy. Too many players and too many offers resulting in a high market fragmentation. There are the heavyweights such as Symbian and Windows...
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Market Corner - 23/02/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to several European organizations (Universities and Businesses), the NEWTON project has led to a 3-D photonic crystal to be used as a key telecom network component in next years. According...
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Global vendor strategies - 23/02/08
Ericsson exits the PBX business, selling its related assets to Aastra Technologies for about €70m. Ericsson made about €320m in PBX sales in 2007. Motorola and RIM have exchanged lawsuits on mutual patent infringements, after their cross licensing agreement...