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Awards - 08/09/08
Ericsson won a $450m order to develop and modernize Hanoi Telecom' s nationwide mobile network (Vietnam). It will migrate its CDMA network to GSM/EDGE. ALU will supply a new Local Area Network (LAN) solution to the Ministry of Education in Turkey. It...
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People - 07/07/08
Motorola redistributes roles in key markets with mission to boost market share: Ruey Bin Kao becomes head of the mobile business in Great China Ian Chapman-Banks is leading a new created Asia portfolio John Gherghetta oversees the cellphone business in...
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Mobile contracts - 03/02/08
ALU has been awarded a deal by mCel (Mozambique) to deploy a 3G UMTS network. Nortel wins two new GSM-R contracts. China's Ministry of Railways has ordered a new GSM-R contract along the Zhengzhou – Xi'an railways line, and Lithuanian Railways has ordered...
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Fixed operator strategies - 15/02/07
France: Cable Network company Noos-Numericable seeks taking over Illiad and its Free and One.Tel divisions. The deal could be worth about €5bn. Earthlink has been tapped by Houston (US) to design and build a city-wide wireless broadband Wi-Fi network...
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Market Researches - 29/09/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Harris Interactive/Novartis, 46% of French companies have already changed for VOIP. Main reasons are cheaper costs and new services. According to Informa, the global IMS equipment market...
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Mobile operator strategies - 13/11/05
Tele2 is buying Lipetsk Mobile, a mobile operator with a GSM license in the territory of Lipetsk, in the central part of Russia. China Unicom launched new GPS service in 114 Chinese cities by the end of the year. MTN (S. Africa) buys 44% of Mascom Wireless...
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Global operaot strategies - 03/02/08
Microsoft as made an unsolicited $44.6bn bid for Yahoo. The goal is to challenge rival Google. In another move, Microsoft invest $250m in FaceBook, the social networking portal. Rumor: Sprint Nextel and Clearwire back again around the table! They would...
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Vendor Corner - 14/06/08
Photline Technologies (optic) has merged with AdLightec (electronics). Ekinops has designed an IC that encompasses all transport functionality in a single chip. Transmode launches its 4G CWDM / DWDM Multi-Service Muxponder (MS-MXP). ADC announced that...
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Mobile operator strategies - 16/06/06
Cingular has launched UMTS/HSDPA services for businesses and consumers in its home town of Atlanta. Verizon Wireless has introduced a child-tracking service, called Chaperone, including a feature to set up virtual zones (geo-fences) for their children...
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Fixed operator strategies - 14/12/05
Telenor announced that its Broadband Global Area Network Service (BGAN) is commercially available to customers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. BGAN is provided by Inmarsat. BT is to buy Fiat' wholly owned telecom unit Atlanet in Italy for...
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Subscriber figures - 10/02/08
Pakistan currently has 77m mobile subscribers, 2.1m WLL and 4.7m fixed-line user base. Singtel ' s regional mobile customer base reached 171.2m at the end of 2007. France had 55.4m mobile customers in Dec 2007, of which 5% from 15 MVNOs. PT Telkom (Indonesia)...
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Fixed operator strategies - 21/12/06
Telefonica may buy Getronics to improve its VOIP offerings. KT (S. Korea), Verizon, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom and Chunghwa Telecom and Tyco will build a new 18,000-km undersea cable between South Korea, China, Taiwan and the United States....
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Global operator strategies - 31/08/06
The Australian government plans to sell Telstra shares this year. FT is said to participate with some Spanish banks in funding up to 10% of a new Sonae bid. Portugal's Competition Authority (AdC) is expected to favorably rule by the end of the week onSonae's...
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Operator results 1 - 03/02/08
NTT DoCoMo reports FY3Q07 (4Q07) net income of €830m, up 38%, on revenues of €7.7bn, down 1.4%. For the first nine months DoCoMo reports its net profit is down 7% to €2.4bn. For the fiscal year, DoCoMo left its net income unchanged at €3bn. TPSA (Poland)...
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Mobile operator strategies
Vimpelcom (Russia) finally has rejected the purchase of Radio Systems Wellcom (Ukraine). The purchase was supported by Alfa Group (Russia), but challenged by Telenor (another strong shareholder) for lack of transparency in the sale process. America Movil...
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Ericsson profits drops
Ericsson reports a 42% drop in 4Q07 net income to €593m, while revenues are flat at €5.8bn, but in line with analysts expectations. The operating margin was 14%, 7.5 points below last year. For the full year, sales were €19.9bn, up 4.4%. The operating...
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Global operator strategies - 24/06/06
iTunes (Apple) should be in talks to distribute videos and films. PCCW confirms two bids, from Australian Macquarie Bank and US equity firm Newbridge Capital, to buy its telecommunications and media assets. The deal is estimated to $7bn. China Netcom...
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Users won’t pay for VoD
According to German terrestrial broadcaster RTL, VOD customers would not pay for content that they can reach for free on terrestrial TV. Furthermore, VOD users would not accept advertising on a VOD service. So, if confirmed (but RTL is an expert), the...
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Fixed operators strategies N58
TOT ( Thailand ) and Chunghwa ( Taiwan ) are partnering to develop a 150-channel broadband Internet network in Chiangmai. China Telecom and China Mobile signed a new strategic agreement to increase cooperation in development plans. They first decided...
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Fixed operator strategies - 9/02/06
Intelsat has secured a contract to provide video distribution to Qualcomm' s MediaFLO USA mobile television broadcast network. DT' s fixed-line unit T-Com (Germany) is loosing around 100,000 customers a month. Magyar Telekom (Hungary) closed the acquisition...
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Fixed operator strategies - 26/11/05
Neuf Telecom is trialling dual GSM/ WiFi phone service in France (WiFi at home and GSM outside). PCCW (HK) plans to export its successful IPTV platform to overseas markets. Besides entering the mainland China pay-TV market (through its deal with China...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 06/12/06
Motorola is investing in Mobile Complete, the developer of DeviceAnywhere.com that provides remote access to handsets connected to major U.S. and European mobile operators. Huawei has completed test of HSDPA and video phone onto UMTS 900MHz. Aperto and...
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Vendor Corner - 08/06/08
Android, Google' s mobile platform, will be 100% open source. Developers will be able to develop open source software as well as integrate proprietary software. The platform is supported by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Siemens sold its Wireless Modules...
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Fixed vendor orders (2)- 5 June 2005
JDSU has been selected by Bellsouth to provide its WaveReady optical platform for passive optical transport in the loop portion. ADVA will deploy its additional FSP 2000 CWDM systems in the Belgacom network, while Siemens will implement and integrate...
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Mobile phone sales grew 15% in Q3
According to Gartner, mobile phone sales increased 15% to 289m units in 3Q07. Nokia sold 110m units for a 38% market share, and in spite of declining ASP by 9%, increased operating margins. Samsung follows with almost 42m units and a market share of 14.5%....