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Free navigation service
In the USA, a free mobile navigation service is competing with GPS services. DIR-ECT-IONS, the name of the service, can be used from anywhere in the country, and provides a nation-wide navigation service via a simple phone call. First you dial the service,...
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Market Corner - 19/11/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to an In-Stat survey, broadband may become more popular than TV in the US. Up to 30% of respondents would drop subscription TV and use the Internet for TV. In another report, In-Stat found...
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Global vendor strategies - 19/11/07
Qualcomm will buy Firethorn for $210m. Firethorn enables mobile banking services (bank balances, fund transfer, payment,...). Verisign may offload its communications business, and then expand its core businesses. IBM bought Cognos for about $5bn. Cognos...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 19/11/07
Dutch court dismisses Nokia complaint against Qualcomm over patent infringement. Nokia unveiled three new 3G handsets: the Nokia 8800 Arte and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte. It plans introducing in 2008 a pedestrian-friendly mapping system. Samsung announced...
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Mobile orders - 19/11/07
Kodiak Networks has been selected by China Mobile Jiangsu for push-to-talk solution deployment. NSN will build Uzbekistan' s Coscom mobile network in the country, with a 2-year turnkey, $152m deal. It will supply Telenor with a pan-Scandinavia HSDPA upgrade....
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Global operator strategies - 19/11/07
Microsoft plans to buy Musiware from Openware. Musiware provides mobile music services. GSMA and Microsoft are jointly working to promote mobile broadband embedded PCs. Following a survey made by Pyramid Research, it appears that there is a "tremendous"...
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Fixed operator strategies - 19/11/07
Kenya Data Networks plans a $100m+ optical fiber cable project for linking the entire East Africa by next year. The cable will be linked to TEAMS (East Africa Marine Systems) undersea cable under completion. Vodafone has bought Irish fixed-line provider...
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Mobile operator strategies - 19/11/07
CTI Movil (Argentina) has launched 3G services in Argentina. America Movil under the treat of loosing its operating license in Ecuador for alleged violations of certain service requirements. It could also be a way to put pressure on the operator before...
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Subscriber figures - 19/11/07
CTI Movil had around 12m mobile users (34% market share) in Argentina, as of end-July 07. America Movil reports 143.4m mobile users at the end of Sept. in CALA. Conecel (America Movil in Ecuador) has 6.6m mobile subscribers. Telefonica Ecuador (Otecel)...
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Operator results - 19/11/07
Bouygues Telecom (France) reports 9mo revenues of €3.5bn (+9%), of which €3.3bn in mobile business (+6%, in spite of 18% termination call tariff decline). But profitability and growth is far from others Bouygues businesses (basically a concrete maker)...
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Cisco FY1Q results
Cisco reported another record quarter with a net income up over 37% to $2.2bn in its first fiscal quarter, on strong sales of $9.6bn, up 17%. Routers and switches accounted for over half of total sales, with both segments growing respectively 18% and...
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DT 3Q07 results
DT earned €259m in the quarter, down 87%, but its adjusted net profit rose 7% to €1.1bn. Sales rose 1.5% to €15.7bn, with domestic sales down 7% to €7.6bn and international sales up 14% to €8bn. The results beat analyst expectations, and execution of...
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Market corner - 11/11/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Arcep, France' s mobile penetration rose to 84%, or 53m mobile subscribers by Sept.-end. Ecology: Orange and Sagem signed a strategic alliance to develop and make products with a greatly...
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Global vendor strategies - 11/11/07
TomTom raised its bid again for TeleAtlas with €30 a share, or €2.9bn (+41%). Google confirmed its interest in mobile with the launch of the Open Handset Alliance, a 34-member group looking to develop innovation in mobile. The alliance includes Qualcomm,...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 11/11/07
Zhongtian Technologies Submarine Cable (China) would enter the cyclic submarine system market with a technology of its own. The technology has yet to be approved by the ITU for overseas projects. NEC targets the WiMAX market and will introduce WiMAX 16e...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 11/11/07
Nokia garnered another success with Ovi in a deal with Vodafone (after Telefonica). Ovi offers services supplied directly from Nokia, such as access to music store, games, navigation and mapping, social networking services. It is a major breakthrough...
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Fixed orders - 11/11/07
Microsoft has signed an IPTV deal, worth $500m, with Indian Reliance Comms. ALU provides optical and services solution for BELNET’s high-speed research network in Belgium, and a video mixer solution to Portuguese SAPO. Zhone Technologies was tapped by...
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Vendor results - 11/11/07
Capgemini reports 3Q07 revenues of €2.1bn, up 11%, and backlog of €2bn (+23%). Growth is driven by APAC and Scandinavia while France reported growth of 6.8% and US had almost 8%. Capgemini expects revenue growth would be over 9% in 2007, and targets an...
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Global operator strategies - 11/11/07
Vodafone will offer Nokia' s mobile service suite Ovi. DT plans selling its Media & Broadcast unit to TDF (France) for about €800m. Sprint Nextel and Clearwire abandon to jointly combine the WiMAX networks they are building. It is for the moment unknown...
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Fixed operator strategies - 11/11/07
ATT plans spending more ($500m) on its U-verse high-speed Internet and video service. It expects now spending $4.5bn-$5bn in two years (2007 and 2008). It targets passing 17m households by the end of 2008, down 1m from previous estimates. Tata Comms (ex...
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Mobile operator strategies - 11/11/07
Elisa (Finland) has launched the world's first commercial WCDMA 3G network in the 900MHz spectrum. SkyLink (Russia) is granted GSM-900 license in Chechnya. Vodafone has emerged as the main contender to buy 25% stake in TM International (Malaysia), a spin-off...
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Subscriber figures - 11/11/07
Neuf Cegetel (France) said it had over 3.1m ADSL customers at the end of Sept.. Japan : DoCoMo added net 39k new customers in 3Q07 to bring its total to 53m, while KDDI reported 29.4m mobile subscriber base (+134k new users) and Softbank said it had 17.2m...
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operator results 2 - 11/11/07
Neuf Cegetel (France) reports 3Q07 sales of € 859m, up 20% including Club Internet purchased in June. With launching new services, such as down-loadable music or TV, ARPU grew over 10% to €34.5. US Cellular said its 3Q07 revenues were $955m, up 16%, and...
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Operator results 1 - 11/11/07
BT announced FY2Q revenues of €7.3bn, up 3%, with 37% in new wave revenues. EBITDA rose 2% to €2.1bn. FY1H revenues were €14.4bn, up 3%, and EBITDA rose 3% to €4bn. Turkcell (Turkey) posts an increase of 44% in 3Q07 revenues to $1.7bn, 62% jump in EBITDA...
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People - 11/11/07
Nortel has appointed Pavi Binning as executive VP and CFO, Joe Flanagan as senior VP of global operations and Joel Hackney as president of enterprise solutions and Joe Flanagan as senior VP of global operations. BT (UK) expects to slash around 5,000 management...