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Fixed contracts - 10/02/08
Ericsson won a turnkey contract from M1 (Singapore) to upgrade its backbone network with microwaves and optical transmission solutions. It won an IMS contract from Armentel (Armenia), a Vimpelcom company. ALU has been selected by Globe Telecom (CIS) to...
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Mobile contracts - 10/02/08
NSN will expand Megafon' s 2G infrastructure, as well as 3G upgrades, under a €320m contract. It has received a $935m contract from Saudi Zain for rolling out a 2G and a 3G network. It has delivered rural broadband networks to Sterela Wireless (USA) Ericsson...
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Vendor results - 10/02/08
JDSU back in black, with 4Q07 sales of $399m (+12%) and net profit of $21m (+200%). ROADM sales grew by 39%; 10Gbit/s sales jumped 32%. Cisco reports FY2Q results. Profit rose 7% to $2bn, while sales climbed 16% to $9.8bn. But Cisco warned again that...
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Global operators strategies - 10/02/08
Teliasonera has made a bid of $1bn for buying 100% (it already owns 49%) of Latvia-based Lattlecom. ATT got FCC' s approval for buying spectrum in the 700MHz band from Aloha Partners (for $2.5bn). KPN, E-Plus, 3UK, Play and Base (respectively in NL, Germany,...
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Fixed operators strategies - 10/02/08
Nine telecom operators (including Bharti Airtel, FT, VSNL, Etisalat, STC, PTCL, Telecom Egypt, Ogero and TIS Sparkle) will build a high-capacity submarine cable, called I-ME-WE, between India and India. Telecom Argentina will debut IPTV services trial...
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Operator results - 10/02/08
BT reports that 4Q07 profit fell 30% to £447m, on flat revenues of £5.1bn. Global services revenues grew by 6.3%, while retail increased by 1.8% and Openreach by 6.6%. Wholesale revenues fell by11%. New Wave revenues increased by7% to £2bn. EBITDA grew...
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People - 10/02/08
ATT hired Chris Schembri as its new marketing director. Motorola CEO Greg Brown will personally lead the ailing handset business, while investor Carl Icahn filed to nominate four board members to the company’s 13-member board. KPN would cut more jobs...
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Technology: Battery improvement
Who has not been angry against low battery load after just few hours activity with their mobile phones or laptops? The problem would be circumvented with new development using silicon nanowires. The promise is a ten-fold increase in lithium-ion (Li-ion)...
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Market Corner - 27/01/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, there were 310m broadband customers in the world at the end of June 07 (more or less in line with stats from Point Topic published last week (Telcoflash Issue 191). According to Insight...
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Global vendor strategies - 27/01/08
Fujitsu would spin off its semiconductor business into a separate company in 2Q08 in order to bolster earnings. Cisco announced a plan to invest about $1.5bn on information and communications technology in the United Arab Emirates over the next five years....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 27/01/08
BigBand Networks unveils an upgrade of its switched digital video SDV platform. Cisco upgrades its Catalyst line of products with SOA, and Power over Ethernet. Siemens released its line of 802.11n product line, focusing on the enterprise. Juniper Networks...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 27/01/08
Sanyo will sell its ailing mobile handset division to Kyocera for $375m. Huawei said it will offer a new solution, called 'Green Sites Solution', capable of slashing base station power consumption by 60%. Strong reaction in Germany (from authorities and...
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Fixed contracts - 27/01/08
Redline will supply WiMAX solution to CTR (Chile). ALU will deploy a new submarine network (called GO-1) between Malta and Italy for GO (Malta). Nortel is providing VOIP gear to Clearwire. Microsoft, Daum and Celrun are forming a JV to offer IPTV in South...
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Mobile contracts - 27/01/08
Huawei has won a $500m order from Reliance (India) for GSM infrastructure in India. Reliance is believed to prepare a massive GSM network tender (worth over $5bn and 70m lines). Ericsson is providing a 3G WCDMA network at 900MHz to Pannon (Hungary), and...
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Vendor results - 27/01/08
Tellabs reported 2007 revenues of $1.9bn, down 6%, and earnings of $65m, down 67%. 4Q07 financials, however, show some signs of improvement. 4Q07 revenues were up 3% to $469m and earnings were $6m (-78%). Broadband revenues were up 10% to $274m in the...
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Global operator strategies - 27/01/08
STC (Saudi Arabia) has bought 35% of Oger Telecom for $2.6bn. Forthnet (Greece) said it is in talks to sell 20% stake to Maltacom. Telefonica plans to invest $7bn in Brazil in next few years. Oger Telecom has made a non-binding bid on Telkom South Africa....
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Fixed Operator strategies - 27/01/08
CMT , the Spanish telecom regulator, has ruled out forcing Telefonica to share cable ducts of its new fiber-optic network. O2 Germany offers unlimited access to the Napster music service with all new DSL subscriptions. Italy has received 29 bids for WIMAX...
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Mobile Operator strategies - 27/01/08
Onse Telecom (S. Korea) plans to add mobile services to its fixed services and add to increase competition there. It would be the first MVNO in S. Korea. Telkomsel (Indonesia) plans to raise $316m in 2008 via bonds, notes and loans, and increase its capex...
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Subscriber figures - 27/01/08
China : the internet users number reached 210m and could overtake the US this year. China Telecom added 7.3m broadband customers in 2007 and ended 2007 with 220.3m customers (copper and WLL), down from 223m in 12/06. China Netcom lost 4.1m fixed line...
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Operator results - 27/01/08
Idea Cellular (India) reports 4Q07 net profit of $161m, up 112%, on revenues of $436m, up 49%. Idea Cellular operates in 11circles (out of 23) in India. Maroc Telecom said its consolidated revenues were $3.6bn in 2007, up 22%, of which $2.5bn in mobile....
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People - 27/01/08
Tellabs will cut 225 jobs to return to profitability. Cosmote Romania has appointed Stefanos Theocharopoulos as CEO Telkom Kenya will lay off half of its staff, as part of a plan to help returning to profitability. Keith Orr has been named new Board member...
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World broadband overview - 3Q07
Point Topic has released its 3Q07 statistics. Briefly, the worldwide total of broadband users was 329m, up 25%, while broadband penetration was 5.7% (up 1.1 point). In fact, the total number of subscriber net additions has steadily decreased in 2007 from...
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Top 10 MNOs IN MEA
The region is one of the fastest growing region and recorded over 32m mobile user additions in 3Q07. African countries are driving the growth. The list of top 10 MNOs is not evolving a lot, but inside ranking is moving. Vodacom (S. Africa) leads the pack...
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VOD in France
The market is booming with a 100% growth rate in 2007 to about €31m. Many platforms, such as Free, Orange, Canalplay, TF1 Vision, Vodeo, or M6Vision, .., already provide content and play a competitive game. Some are offering packages for video on demand...
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Market corner - 19/01/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, cable TV operators are relying on cable modem services to generate new revenue streams, bundling video and data services. Worldwide, there were some 408m cable TV households (+10%),...