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Mobile operator strategies - 29/10/07
ATT is offering its subscribers access to Napster' s catalog of 5m songs. It said that it would bid in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction. Carphone Warehouse (UK) launches MVNO service using the Vodafone network. Mobilnil (Egypt) has been granted a...
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Subscriber figures - 29/10/07
ATT Wireless added 2m mobile subscribers and reached 65.7m users at the end of September. China Mobile had 350m mobile subscribers at the end of September, with an average of 5.4m new customers per month. Brazil had 113m mobile subscribers at the end...
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Operator results - 29/10/07
ATT reported strong 3Q07 quarter with revenues up 3% pro forma to $30bn, and net income of $3bn, up 36%. China Mobile reported 9mo revenues of $33bn, up 22%, EBITDA of $17.8bn (+15%), and net profit of $7.7bn, up 30%. 3Q07 net income grew 38% to $2.8bn,...
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People - 29/10/07
Bernard Ghillebaert, Orange UK CEO will become Executive Vice President of Sales and Customer Experience at group level. Tom Alexander will replace him as Orange UK CEO. Karl-Henrik Sundstrom, Ericsson' s CFO, quits after Ericsson reported poor 3Q07 results....
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Nokia 3Q07 results
Nokia did better than expected in 3Q07. Sales were up 28% to €12.9bn, operating income jumped 69% to €1.9bn, and net income soared by 85% to €1.6bn. The mobile Phone unit reported the lowest growth with only 3% to €6.1bn, but shipped a record 112m units...
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Ericsson 3Q07 new forecast
Ericsson announced its 3Q07 sales and earnings would be lower than expected. Sales would be about €4.9bn; its operating profit would be at €618m and net profit at €440m. The shortfall i due to poor conditions affecting the mobile infrastructure. As a...
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NSN improves
NSN reported a 7% increase in sales in 3Q07, with an operating loss (excluding restructuring and one-time charges) of €34m, vs loss of €361bn in 2Q07 in equal conditions. NSN, however, maintains its cost-cutting strategy and announces further cost cuts...
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Mobile handsets in 3Q07
ABI estimates that 288m mobile phones were shipped in 3Q07, up 11% qoq and 16% yoy. Nokia estimates are too far with 286m, up 17%. For the year, both are forecasting shipments of over 1.1bn units, or a growth of 13.5%. For 3Q07, Nokia shipped 112m units...
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WiMAX wins ITU approval
WiMAX has been approved as an ITU standard and added to the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards (made of W-CDMA, cdma2000, TD-CDMA, EDGE, and DECT). It is a good news for vendors and operators. For WiMAX vendors the success is obvious. With a labeled standard,...
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PC market
In 3Q07, PC sales were up about 15% to almost 67m units. HP continues to dominate and even distant second Dell at worldwide level. HP had a low 19% market share with 13m units sold in the quarter, while Dell sold about 10m units or a low 14.5% market...
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US Mobile phone satisfaction survey
According to ChangeWave Research USA, 82% of iPhone owners said being Very Satisfied with their purchase, followed by RIM with 51%. Motorola only got 33% in customer satisfaction and Sony Ericsson had the lowest figure with 31%. In terms of planned purchases,...
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Market corner - 21/10/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, 18% of broadband access would be provided via fiber access in western Europe by 2010-2012, while 9% would be supplied by VDSL. According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide PON...
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Global vendor strategies - 21/10/07
Cisco is rumored to be interested by Navini to ease its entry into the WiMAX market. Cisco offices in Brazil were raided following tax investigation by federal authorities. 40 people were arrested. Nortel will pay $35m to settle SEC allegations, following...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 21/10/07
JDSU and Mintera have signed a strategic alliance to provide complete 40Gbit/s high bit-rate optical transport systems solutions. Mintera has secured a $19m C round of venture capital financing. ALU signed a partnership deal with Sagem for joint unified...
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Mobile contracts - 21/10/07
Samsung sold record 42.6m handsets in 3Q07. LG sold 21.9m mobile handsets in 3Q07. Huawei displaces NSN in Vodafone Hungary 3G network. Motorola has deployed a WiMAX pilot network in Paris with Bollore Telecom. ALU said E-Plus has extended its outsourcing...
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Vendor results - 21/10/07
LG (S. Korea) reports 3Q07 sales of $10.7bn, up 12%, and an operating profit of $390m. Mobile Phones division accounted for $2.8bn in sales (+4%) and shipped almost 22m units in the quarter. UTStarcom reports a 2Q07 loss of $62m (down 376%), on revenues...
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Global operator strategies - 21/10/07
EU would recommend splitting incumbent operators into two companies, one for the service and one for the infrastructure. FT (France) is again fined €45m for anti-competitive behavior in the ADSL and Internet markets in early 2000s. In another case, the...
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Subscriber figures - 12/05/06
Bouygues Telecom (France) had 8.2m mobile subscribers at the end of March. Swisscom had 4.4m mobile users; 1.2m broadband subscribers. MTS (Russia) said it reached 62m mobile subscribers as of April 06, of which 46.4m in Russia, 14.6m in Ukraine. Vodacom...
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Subscriber figures - 10/05/06
Kuwait' s Wataniya reports 7.1m subscribers (+119%) in the 6 countries where it operates as of March 2006. It has 947k subscribers in Kuwait, and 6.2m in Tunisia, Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the Maldives. Africa passed the bar of 150m+ mobile subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 06/05/06
Telkom (Sth Africa) currently has 4.7m fixed lines. OTE (Greece) had 154k ADSL subscribers at the end of 2005, and expects to have 500k ADSL users by the end of the year. America Movil reports 100m+ mobile subscribers (+44%) in Americas (of which 93m...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 07/10/07
Nokia and Avaya announced the next phase of their strategic collaboration for delivering fixed to mobile convergence applications for enterprises. ALU supports a mixed solution for GPON' s successor made of a mix of TDM and WDM current solutions. Italtel...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 07/10/07
Palm will launch a $100 Centro smartphone. It is considered as the last chance for survival by analysts. HTC launches the HTC Touch Dual with 3.5G connectivity in Europe. Samsung targets capturing a 18% market share in India by the end of 2008. NSN 3G...
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Subscriber figures - 03/05/06
India added record 4m GSM new subscribers in March to a total GSM subscriber base of 69.2m. CANTV (Venezuela) had 5.6m mobile subscribers, up 75%, at the end of March. Iusacell (Mexico) had 1.9m mobile subscribers at the end of March. SingTel (Singapore)...
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Subscriber figures - 29/04/06
US Cellular had 5.3m subscribers at the end of March (+10%). Sprint Nextel announced a mobile subscriber base of about 51m (including affiliates) at the end of March, adding 1.3m users in the quarter. Centertel (Poland) reported 10.4m mobile subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 26/04/06
Brazil: the number of residential internet users in Brazil reached 14m in March. SFR (France) reported a total registered customer base of 17.3m (+8%) at the end of March, of which 1.35m are 3G. ARPU decreased 2% in past 12 months to $49.2. Mobile data...