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Subscriber figures - 22/04/06
China Mobile added 4.3m users in March to reach a subscriber base of 260.6m at the end of March. Bellsouth currently has 19.8m access lines, after a decline of 1.2% in 1Q06.. Mobistar (Belgium) had 2.96m mobile subscribers at the end of March. EarthLink...
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Subscriber figures - 21/04/06
Vmobile (Nigeria) has more than 5m mobile subscribers. Celtel (Nigeria) currently has more than 15m mobile subscribers in 14 African countries. There were over 3.1m unbundled local loop lines in France at the end of March. Indosat (Indonesia) reports...
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Fixed orders - 07/10/07
Infinera will provide optical gear to OVH (France). Jabber will supply BT with its Jabber XCP platform to provide instant messaging. ECI Telecom is deploying its broadband access solution into Telecom Italia network in Italy. Harris has been awarded a...
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Subscriber figures - 12/04/06
Colombia Telecom has 3m fixed-line users in Colombia and 4,000 km of fiber-optic network. Japan has 91.8m mobile subscribers out of 128m population. FT has 2m of Livebox users (triple play offer). The telephony penetration rate in Morocco reached 45.8%...
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People - 24/02/07
IBM France has named Daniel Chaffraix as its new CEO. Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Vivek Mohan as Vice President - Services Business Group, South Asia, and A Sethuraman as Chief Marketing Officer, South Asia. Ravi Ailawadhi would now act as Vice President...
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Subscriber figures - 05/04/06
In the US, there were 191m mobile customers, 144m ILEC lines (incumbent local exchange carriers) and 34m CLEC lines (competitive local exchange carriers). Telefonica has signed up its third millionth customer to broadband internet in Spain. MTS (Russia)...
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Subscriber figures - 01/04/06
Warid Telecom had more than 3m subscribers in Pakistan in 10 months. MTS (Russia) had a subscriber base of 60.3m mobile subscribers as of February 28, 2006. Costa Rica has a mobile subscriber base of 1.2m and a penetration of 29%. Tunisie Telecom currently...
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Subscriber figures - 28/9/05
Hungary: announced 9m mobile subscriber mark. T-Mobile Hungary is the market leader with over 45% market share, followed by Pannon GSM with 34% and Vodafone with just above 20%. US: according to Openwave, there are about 8.2m MVNO mobile data subscribers,...
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People - 22/02/07
BT has named a new Chairman, Michael Rake, ex-KPMG, to replace Sir Christopher Bland, from Sept. 07. Fujitsu Services' staff in the UK plan more strike action in coming days, arguying on salaries, dedundancies and union recognation. AOL' s CFO Steve Swad...
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Subscriber figures- 24/9/05
Vodafone Spain announced 225,000 Vodafone live! 3G handsets sold as of the end of August. Verizon is on track to post another record quarter of net additions and to lower its churn. Growth could be at the expense of Sprint Nextel, according to Merrill...
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Subscriber figures - 21/9/05
Vodafone: announced 4.3m 3G subscribers at the end of August. Canada has reached 16m mobile subscribers. Broadband services connected in Australia near 2.2m, up 108%. Safaricom (Kenia) has attained 3m active subscriber mark after 5 years in operation....
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Subscriber figures - 17/9/05
Australia: current mobile customer base of 17.8m, of which 8.2m for Telstra, 6m for Optus , 2.7m for Vodafone and 0.9m for Hutchison. Bharti Televentures (India) added more than 600,000 new GSM mobile users in August, reaching a total of 13.4m. Brazil:...
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Global operator strategies - 07/10/07
The European Commission will investigate Qualcomm for possible antitrust rules violation. ATT has applied for wireless licenses in 22 regional circles in India through a partnership with India's Mahindra Telecom. Microsoft buys Jellyfish.com for an undisclosed...
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Subscriber figures - 15/9/05
Belgium: 2m internet connections in 2Q05. Pakistan has reached in 08/05 the 15m mobile subscriber mark, or a mobile teledensity of 10%. Mobilink was by far the dominant player with 7.5m users, while Ufone had 2.6m. Broadband: in the world, there were...
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Subscriber figures - 10/9/05
India: total subscriber base for the country's nine GSM-based mobile operators stood at 49m, up 4.3% or 2m in August. Bharti Tele-Ventures (India) subscriber base reached 13.4m at the end of August; the subscriber base of competitor Bharat Sanchar Nigam...
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Subscriber figures - 8/9/05
Japan: DoCoMo gained a net 119,900 subscribers in July, while KDDI added 185,300 net new subscribers and Vodafone added 3,600. DoCoMo currently has 15.9m FOMA subscribers; KDDI reported 19.3m 3G users, and Vodafone has a little bit less than 1.6m 3G subscribers....
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Fixed operator strategies - 21/10/07
BBC ( UK) announced it provides all of its online content available for free through a deal with The Cloud. TransTelecom (Russia) plans to spend $1.5bn to build its broadband network. Taiwan would invest $644m in WiMAX network by 2010. The UK Government...
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Subscriber figures - 1/9/05
China : teledensity reached 26% in June with 337.5m fixed lines users, while mobile penetration reached 28%, with 363.2m mobile users. In total, China currently has 700m telephone users. China Telecom almost has 203m subscribers, of which 53m PHS, and...
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Mobile operator strategies - 21/10/07
TF1 (France) and Samsung continue partnering for DVB-H deployment in France. Spanish telecom regulator has launched legal proceedings against the country's three major mobile operators: Telefonica, Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain. Telstra (Australia)...
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Subscriber figures - 27/8/05
PHS users in China were almost 65m at the end of 2004. Now, China Telecom and China Netcom see 2.5m new PHS subscribers each month. AIS (Thailand) subscriber base rose to 15.9m in July. The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has unveiled the worldwide number...
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Subscriber figures - 23-08-05
In 2Q05, Verizon Wireless added 1.9m new subscribers and reached 47.5m users. Vodafone added 4.1m new customers to push its customer base past 165m.Vodafone Germany announced its 530,000th 3G customer in June. The Argentine mobile subscriber base reached...
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Fixed operator strategies - 07/10/07
The city of Paris (France) has open more than 300 free WiFi hotspots. More than 400 hotspots would be deployed across Paris. Zain (ex MTC) has deployed a WiMAX network in Bahrain. ATT would be interested in buying satellite TV provider EchoStar for $25bn....
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Subscriber figures - 10/07/05
Tesim ( Turkey ) has 8.2m mobile users and targets 10m by the end of this year. Turkey has 36m mobile users, of which 25.6m for Turkcell. Russia : reports 97.6m mobile users in June, of which 34.2m for MTS, 33.7m for Vimpelcom, 18.2m for Megafon. India...
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Subscriber figures - 2/7/05
AIS (Thailand) raised its subscriber base to 15.7m as of June 1. DTAC (Thailand) had 8.2m mobile subscribers as of May 31. China s internet user base reached 100m and its broadband Internet user base had overran 30m. There were 3.1m Blackberry users as...
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Subscriber figures - 07/09/07
BT (UK) passes 4m broadband Internet customer, and reached 26% UK market share. India: according to COAI, India may add 10m mobile phone subscribers a month before the end of 2007 (including CDMA WLL lines). Yoigo (Spain) has reached a client base of...