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Global vendor strategies - 24/12/07
Qualcomm has purchased the noise- reduction technology of SoftMax to improve the audio and voice capabilities of its chips. Turin Networks will buy Carrier Access for about $93m in cash. Arris buys C-Cor: confirmed and approved by shareholders of both...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 24/12/07
Coppercom is out: it announced it will discontinue its product lines sales, but will still support customers. Gilat has been chosen by Vivo (Brazil) for providing satellite-based solution in LATAM. Pace Micro will buy Philips' set top box solutions business....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 24/12/07
Broadcom is developing a 3G/HSPA processor on a 65nm CMOS chip. LG announced it has sold more than 300,000 units of its 5-megapixel camera-phone LG Viewty, in the past five weeks in Europe. ZTE has selected Trolltech' s Qtopia Phone Edition application...
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Fixed contracts - 24/12/07
EADS won the French Firemen PMR network contract, worth several tenth million Euros. Intracom / JSC Sitronics will deliver a MPEG4- IPTV solution to Bruce Telecom (Canada). Aperto will build first Egyptian WiMAX network for the police. Harris Stratex...
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Mobile contracts - 24/12/07
Starent Networks has been selected by Iusacell (Mexico) for its ST16 Multimedia core platform. Ericsson provides its U360 mobile platform to ASUSTeK Computer (Taiwan) for HSPA PC card. It will deploy Claro (Brazil) 3G/HSPA network. Mobilkom (Austria)...
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Global operator strategies - 24/12/07
The International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) has recognized the terrestrial digital mobile broadcasting (T-DMB) technology as a global mobile TV standard, in addition to other standards such as DVB-H, Mediaflow or OneSeg. The International Telecommunication...
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Mobile operator strategies - 24/12/07
Kyivstar (Ukraine) has been awarded a 3G license in Ukraine. Telkom Kenya says that it plans to roll out a GSM network, as soon as it is granted a national mobile license. Telkom Kenya already operates a CDMA network. China Mobile and China Unicom are...
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Subscriber figures - 24/12/07
Brazil : the Brazilian mobile operators association (Acel) forecasts 118m mobile subscribers by the end of 2007, and that total would grow by 10-12% in 2008. In November, there were 116.3m mobile users. There were 7.1m fixed broadband accesses in Brazil...
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People - 24/12/07
As a result of the merger with C-COR, Arris will shed about 100 people. The management team is made of: Bob Stanzione, Arris chairman and CEO; Larry Margolis, Arris EVP and general counsel; and David Potts, EVP and CFO, Ron Coppock as sales and marketing...
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Market corner - 16/12/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Vodafone, the Indian market would grow at a CAGR of about 35% between 2006 and 2011. It currently has 37m mobile subscribers in the country, its largest market by customers, ahead of Germany...
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Global vendor strategies - 16/12/07
Huawei is planning building a new factory in Brazil. Genesys (ALU) acquires Informiam, a pioneer in real-time business performance management for customer service operations. Avaya reached the pole position in Enterprise voice equipment European market,...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 16/12/07
LG forecasts a 7%-8% operating margin for its mobile phone business in 4Q07 and for 2008. After NSN, Ericsson also rejected an order for almost 10m mobile lines from BSNL in India. Nokia launched an ad-funded video service, called Medeo, going more head...
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Fixed contracts - 16/12/07
Cisco will provide core routers that will become the core platform of AT&T' s IP/MPLS backbone network. It will provide Reggefiber (NL) with IP-NGN and Ethernet FTTH equipment. NEC has received its first mobile WiMAX order (worth 200 base stations) from...
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Mobile contracts - 16/12/07
NSN won a new GSM-R contract in China: the Hefei- Wuhan railways line, passing through the Anhui and Hubei provinces. It will also expand China Mobile ' s Beijing GPRS core packet network. NSN has been selected by Italy' s Conad supermarket chain new...
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Global operator strategies - 16/12/07
FT acquired the remaining 25% stake in Al-pi (Spain) for $43m. KT (S. Korea) is mulling a re-organization: either an holding unit or merger with its mobile arm KTF. Ofcom (UK regulator) is upset by BT' s Openreach infrastructure division failing to meet...
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Fixed operator strategies - 16/12/07
Cap Town (S. Africa) will have its own fiber optic network: 171Km-long, $45m worth, connecting over 100 municipal buildings and 10,000 broadband users. LG Dacom (S. Korea) launches IPTV services, boosting competition in the triple play service market....
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Mobile operators strategies - 16/12/07
Vodafone wins the bid for Qatar's second mobile phone license. Vodafone Australia plans to launch national broadband mobile coverage to 95% of Aussies before Xmas 08. Vodafone Essar (India) plans to invest some € 2.8bn over the next two years to expand...
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Subscriber figures - 16/12/07
Oman : Nawras currently has about 900,000 mobile users, and a 38% market share. Bouygues Telecom (France) reports its 9 millionth customer. India added 6.1m GSM new users in November, of which Reliance added 327k to 5.7m, and Bharti Airtel added over...
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Operator results - 16/12/07
Bouygues reported 9mo results: €1.1bn in net profit (+20%) with €694 (+40%) operating profit from its Telecom business. It also increased 2007 outlook to €29.2bn in revenues. Vodafone said that its EMAPA (EE + ME+Africa + APAC) business would contribute...
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Market Corner - 10/12/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the APAC region would see consumers' increasing appetite for digital content. Online music revenue in APAC will reach $1.4bn in 2011; online video revenue in APAC will reach $2.7bn...
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Fixed orders - 10/12/07
Ericsson has inked a MINI-LINK microwave solution with TDF (France). Redback/ Ericsson has been selected by BSNL of India to provide its SmartEdge family of multi-service edge routers. ALU has been selected by Brazil Telecom for the provision and deployment...
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Mobile orders - 10/12/07
NSN and Panasonic have been selected to provide DoCoMo LTE base stations. NSN said also that it has been selected by Verizon Wireless as one of four vendors for a LTE trial. NSN will provide IMS equipment to Chunghwa Telecom in a contract that is worth...
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Global operator strategies - 10/12/07
Zain (ex MTC of Kuwait) will buy Orascom Iraq-based subsidiary Iraqna for $1.2bn. ATT and Verizon Wireless have agreed to swap some wireless assets, after the acquisition of Rural Cellular Corp. (USA) by Verizon Wireless and of Dobson by ATT. DoCoMo and...
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Fixed operator strategies - 10/12/07
Golden Telecom (CIS) plans to invest $100m in Ukraine to expand coverage of a broadband infrastructure in six major Ukrainian cities. VSE NET (Germany) has launched Germany's first commercial WiMAX network. In Italy , 48 firms will participate in the...
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Mobile operator strategies - 10/12/07
T-Mobile wins German iPhone battle and has been given the green light to sell locked iPhones within a 2-year contract. FT has sold 30k iPhones in the first five days of sale in France. Nearly half of those sales generated new Orange mobile subscribers....