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Fixed vendor strategies - 23/02/08
Motorola launched its adaptive AP (access point) wireless providing reliable wireless connectivity to cell phone users in branch offices, and WLAN connectivity. Redback targets 30% market share by the end of 2009 (from about current 7%), and it will have...
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Fixed contracts - 23/02/08
Aperto has been chosen by PESCO Telecom (Lebanon) to deploy a WiMAX network. Airspan wins a WiMAX contract in Ecuador with PuntoNet, and in Russia for Enforta. ALU has been selected by ICE - Italian Trade Commission - to deploy an international VoIP network...
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Mobile contracts - 23/02/08
ALU has been selected by ATT Mobile to deploy its UMTS/HSDPA solution. It is a major deal given ATT' s ambitious plans. Ericsson will deploy a UMTS/HSPA network for Vimpelcom to cover seven of the nine regions in Russia. It will provide a GSM/UMTS/HSPA...
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Global operator strategies - 23/02/08
SK Telecom (S. Korea) got the green light (under some conditions) from the Fair Trade Commission and from the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) for its planned acquisition of Hanarotelecom (S. Korea), country's second-largest fixed-line...
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Fixed operator strategies - 23/02/08
United Content Distributors (NL) launched a set-top box tying cable or satellite video service with Internet video access and present it on the television screen, bringing IPTV to the masses. Galaxia Telecom (Algeria) has opened its WiMAX service In Algeria....
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Mobile operator strategies - 23/02/08
Zain Iraq will expand its coverage to all regions in Iraq by the end of this year, to boost its current 7.5m subscriber base in the country. Zain S. Arabia will use S. Arabia Mobily' s network infrastructure for a few years. The deal also includes nationwide...
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Subscriber figures - 23/02/08
Spain : 50.2m mobile subscribers and a penetration rate of 112%. MVNOs accounted for 14.5% of net additions in 2007. Telefonica Imagenio (IPTV service) has reached 500k customers. Telenor currently has 143m mobile subscribers worldwide, making it the...
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Operator results - 23/02/08
Telenor (Norway) reports 23% increase in 4Q07 net income to €960m, while revenues fell 3% to €2.9bn. For the year, Telenor reported a €2.3bn net profit (+13%) on revenues of €6.2bn (+15%). Rogers Comms. (Canada) posted 44% increase in net profit to $255m,...
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People - 23/02/08
According to its restructuring plan, Telmex (Mexico) would lay off about 750 employees. Motorola has named its new CFO: Paul J. Liska. Steve Maine has been named as CEO of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS), a JV between Eutelsat and SES ASTRA. Ian MacNamara...
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Cellphone Cancer : Alert
Once more the subject is back. Pros and Cons alternatively claim they can demonstrate that cellphone impacts (or not) our brain or another part of ourself. Who can say the truth? How to be sure there is no lobbying hidden behind? The latest is from Israel,...
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LTE strategies
MWC 2008 was also the fashionable place to announce strategic alliances. I always have some doubt on what they called “strategic alliances”. From past years we can learn they are inefficient, failed in most cases and introduce noise and confusion in the...
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Femtocell taking off?
Barcelona 2008 would be perhaps the taking off point for femtocells. It was one of the hottest topics in the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, and many operators and vendors took the opportunity to announce more than a superficial interest in the...
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Me too!
Samsung announced plans to launch an Internet-services strategy for its mobile phones. The strategy is simple (sell services that go along with their hardware) but not really new. It was implemented several times with success: by RIM with the BlackBerry,...
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Market corner - 17/02/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, there is a huge potential market for ultra-low-cost (ULC) handsets in the next few years in China (yet 800m potential customers). It believes that there would be over 80m new mobile...
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Global vendor strategies - 17/02/08
ALU and NEC plan a JV to develop LTE technology. Simultaneously, speculation is growing that Motorola may combine its mobile infrastructure business with Nortel Networks: in sight a new $10bn company, with 16% global share of the market. Samsung and ALU...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 17/02/08
Voice over WiMAX : Netindex, Kaga Electronics and Runcon Technologies jointly demonstrated in Barcelona a mobile phone working on a WiMAX network. The WiMAX Forum announced it would include 700 MHz in its future certification profiles, creating a new...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 17/02/08
NextWave has expanded its ecosystem to enable innovative, end-to-end WiMAX solutions. The strategy is to speed up time -to-market, and develop innovative products in partnership. Ericsson and Altobridge are partnering to develop and roll out GSM coverage...
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Mobile contracts - 17/02/08
ALU announced a deal with AT&T Mobility to further expand its 3G/HSPA network. It will upgrade and expand SMARTS' network in Russia, MTN' s network in Yemen, as well as Unitel' s network in Angola. Ericsson has secured a deal with DoCoMo for LTE base...
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Global operator strategies - 17/02/08
Belgacom (Belgium) will buy Scarlet NV for €185m. Brazil may change the telecom law, following the green light given by the Government to end restrictions applied to fixed-line licenses that prohibit the provision of services in more than one region of...
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Fixed operator strategies - 17/02/08
Amatole Telecom Services (S. Africa) will launch mobile internet services in the Amathole region, using a WiMAX network. France will propose to deploy fiber in new buildings with more than 50 apartments. Vodacom South Africa plans to launch its first...
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FT 2007 results
FT said its 2007 profit was up 52% to €6.3bn, on revenues of €53bn, up 2.4%. Personal Communications Services were particularly strong with 7.5% growth in 4Q07 and almost 110m customers. 3G customers were 13m, of which 7.4m in France. MVNO customer base...
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ALU 4Q07 results
ALU reported 4Q07 operating profit of €303m (vs a loss of €3m) and up 20% on consensus, on revenues of €5.2bn, up 18%. Net earnings, however, was a loss of €2.6bn, and 2007 net loss amounted to €3.5bn, after it included a combined write-down for its CDMA...
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Market corner - 10/02/08
A few set of market information released this week: Mobile Internet and broadband will be the dominant themes at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona According to Idate, the global mobile market (including, services, terminals and infrastructure)...
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Global vendor strategies - 10/02/08
Fujitsu announced the launch of a comprehensive set of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions. Redline has launched its BWI (Broadband Wireless Infrastructure) business unit to focus on wireless backhaul solutions. Siemens IT Solutions and Services will...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 10/02/08
Apple is now the number three among smartphone vendors, according to Canalys. It has launched a new iPhone device with 16Gmo memory. Fujitsu Networks has announced an outdoor microcell base station for mobile WiMAX, the BroadOne WX300. It launched the...