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Subscriber figures - 10/12/07
Tanzania had 7.6m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. Orascom Telecom had 64.7m subscribers at the end of Sept. The USA mobile subscriber base reached 248m in 3Q07, adding almost 4.9m new users in the quarter. North America GSM user number reached...
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50% global mobile penetration
3.3bn mobile subscriptions mark has been reached last week, or about 50% of the world population has a mobile phone. Remember, it was in 1981, when the first mobile network was launched in Scandinavia. Today, there were about 224 countries with at least...
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Verizon announced big changes
What to think about two major announcements from Verizon Wireless? The first one is about its mobile network evolution. Verizon Wireless is now one of the largest CDMA networks in the world. But Verizon decided to move to LTE, the GSM world' s 3GPP future...
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Market corner - 02/12/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to CCID, China's mobile phone market decreased by almost 10% qoq in 3Q07 to 35.3m units and related sales were down 9% to $5.2bn. According to Infonetics Research, the market for mobile first-mile...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 02/12/07
Motorola unveils its cablePON strategy, made of RF Over Glass (RFOG) and GPON-like solutions. It will enter field trails in the first quarter of 2008. Fujitsu could be the front runner for a Verizon contract for a packet optical RFP. NSN said it is interested...
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Fixed contracts - 02/12/07
ALU will design and deploy an integrated communication, security and IT system for the new King Shaka International Airport north of Durban, South Africa. ALU-LGS won two network upgrade projects for the US Army in Germany. It built a GPON network for...
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Mobile contracts - 02/12/07
ALU has signed for frame agreements for mobile solutions and optical gear with China Mobile (€600m) and China Unicom (€150m). It will roll out Bouygues Telecom' s 3G/HSPA network in four of Bouygues Telecom' s six operational regions in France. It will...
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Global operator strategies - 02/12/07
ATT is now offering business services in Vietnam. EU clears Vodafone to buy the Italian and Spanish units of Tele2. FT won the bidding process for Ghana Telecom for about $550m. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) has obtained the exclusive rights to broadcast...
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Fixed operator strategies - 02/12/07
Vodacom (S. Africa) would buy another 15% stake in iBurst, a S. African WiMAX operator, to bring its total stake to 25%. Neuf Cegetel (France) would consider bidding for fourth French mobile licensing if the process is re-launched. Vimpelcom (Russia)...
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Mobile Operator strategies - 02/12/07
Mobily (S. Arabia) would invest $1bn on wireless broadband over next four years. T-Mobile deploys HSUPA in Germany. Telkomsel (Indonesia) would increase its 2008 capex by 13% to $1.7bn. Saudi Telecom has won the auction for a 26% stake in third mobile...
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Subscriber figures - 02/12/07
Brazil: mobile market leader Vivo lost market share to 27.6% while TIM Brazil improved to 25.9% and Claro to 25%. Germany would increased its mobile subscriber base to 36.5m in 2007, up 6%. There were over 421m cdma subscribers worldwide, of which 83m...
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People - 02/12/07
Franco Bernabe has been designated as Telecom Italia' s new CEO, and Gabriele Galateri as new chairman. Steven Boutelle has been named Cisco' s VP Global Government Solutions Group. Telefonica O2 Europe Peter Erskine, is to step down as Chairman and CEO,...
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iPhone blow in Europe
I already mentioned that iPhone sales were good also in Europe, but it was not a rush as in the States. Another blow hit the Apple device in Germany (but also presumably elsewhere) when Vodafone secured a court injunction against T-Mobile exclusive deal...
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Market corner - 25/11/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to NPD, US 3Q07 handset sales jumped 47% to $3.2bn and 38m (+16%) units shipped. Motorola remains the market leader with 31% share, followed by LG with 17%, Samsung with 16%, then Nokia with...
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Global vendor strategies - 25/11/07
Cisco buys back $10bn in stock. It also announced it will invest $268m over five years in Saudi Arabia. SR Telecom (Canada) has filed for creditor protection, but still expects for restructuring by the end of 1Q08. IBM upgrades its Rational, WebSphere...
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Mobile contracts - 25/11/07
Cambridge Broadband Networks wins backhaul infrastructure contract from MTN. NEC provides technical services (3G optimization solutions) to French Bouygues Telecom. ALU will provide MTS Ukraine with a CDMA-EV-DO Rev. A network. It has deployed the first...
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Vendor results - 25/11/07
HP reports good results, thanks to good PC sales (+31%). Net earnings were $2.2bn, up 28%, on revenues of $28.3bn, up 15%. FY revenues were $110bn. NextWave posted a 3Q07 net loss of $108m (triple from a year ago) on revenues of $18m, up 166%. Ericsson...
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Global operator strategies - 25/11/07
Vivendi (France) will not buy 33% of Oger Telecom. The deal that we pre-announced last week will not be realized. Last minute difficulties (surely pricing and management) have emerged and talks have come to an end. Vivendi will still pursue strategic...
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Fixed operator strategies - 25/11/07
EarthLink (US) plans to sell its WiFi business, adding doubts to the viability of large-scale municipal Wi-Fi mesh projects. Verizon has successfully tested 100 Gbit/s optical transmission on a live, in-service 500-km network route in Florida. The equipment...
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Subscriber figures - 25/11/07
MTS (Russia) said its mobile subscriber base in the CIS reached over 79m at end-October. China Unicom added 1.5m new mobile users in Oct. China Mobile added 6.6m new mobile customers in October, to a new total of 356m (up 22%). China Netcom reports 114m...
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EU' s Telecom Reform
The European Commission unveiled plans to reform the EU telecom market. The idea behind is to limit the influence of local governments and regulators, give new rights to consumers and cap prices. The first point is to create a European "super regulator"...
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Vodafone FY1H07 results
Green light for Vodafone. FY1H revenues increased by 9% to £17bn, with a profit of £3.3bn, vs a huge loss of £5bn a year ago. EBITDA rose over 5% to £6.6bn. Revenue growth is driven by operations (+40%) in emerging markets (S. Africa, Romania, Egypt,...
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iPhone in Europe: not a rush
It is a success, however, but not with the size of what happened in the US. In the first day of sales, about 10,000 iPhones were sold in each country: the UK and Germany. It seems that the high price of the device (€400), as well as the cost of the subscription...
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m-banking
Momentum appears to be building in the mobile banking space. No week without any new service trial or opening. The latest are a GSMA initiative with a dozen of mobile operators to test Near Field Communications payments. More than ten countries are involved...
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VoIPo3G uber alles!
Easy and clear to understand (voice over IP over 3G cellular networks). This new acronym would be, according to Disruptive Analysis, the stamp for an anticipated explosion in VOIP over 3G usage. Accordingly, it seems the final stage for voice over WiFi,...