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Subscriber figures - 05/04/07
MTN (S. Africa) had 40m mobile subscribers at the end of 2006, up 73%, of which 16m in the SEA region (+27%), 20m in the WECA region (+80%), 5m in the MENA region, including 8.4m users from Investcom (Africa and Middle East). China Netcom had 115m fixed...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 29/09/07
ALU: in spite of a profit warning last week, ALU said it will buy UK-based Tamblin to re-enforce its interactive IPTV portfolio. Separately, it announced a joint development agreement with Kyocera (Japan) for the development of end-to-end WiMAX mobile...
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Subscriber figures - 23/03/07
Telecom Italia had 32.4m mobile subscribers in Italy by the end of 2006, of which 4.2m are 3G. China Telecom reports it had 224m fixed telephony users at the end of February, of which 30m are broadband. China Mobile has added 4.9m new mobile subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 17/03/07
Free/ Iliad (France) had 2.24m ADSL subscribers at the end of 2006. Swisscom had 1.4m ADSL subscribers at the end of 2006, up 21%. Poland is one of the most competitie mobile markets with three operators at about the same level: 33% each for Orange Poland...
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Subscriber figures - 10/03/07
Japan: DoCoMo added 102k new users in February to a total of 52.3m, but KDDI added 224k new users to a total of 27.7m and Softbank increased its subscriber base by 120k to 15.8m. The total number of mobile users in the country rose to 95.8m. Spain had...
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Subscriber figures - 07/03/07
France has over 4m LLU (unbundled local loop). 18% of French households are broadband, against an European average of 15%. Argentina' INDEC reports a 42% growth of the number of mobile lines in service to 32.4m at end-January 07. Philippines: mobile penetration...
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Subscriber figures - 01/03/07
Wataniya (or NMT) in Kuwait has 4m subscribers in Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Maldives. Unefon (Mexico) reports 1.3m subscribers at the end of 2006. Taiwan reports that 3G user number has surged 157% to 3.4m in 2006. The Indian government...
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Subscriber figures - 24/02/07
China Mobile reports the addition of 4.9m new mobile subscribers in January, bringing its total subscriber base to 306m. China Telecom aded 250k new fixed subscribers in january, raising its total to 223.3m, of which 29.1m are broadband. China had 368m...
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Subscriber figures - 22/02/07
China Unicom reports 106.9m GSM and 38.9m CDMA mobile users as of January-end. India has added 6.8m new mobile subscribers in January, breaking a new world record. In Singapore, 3G users account for 19% of total mobile users. T-Mobile Germany currently...
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Subscriber figures - 18/02/07
France had 1.4m MVNO subscribers at the end of 2006, or about 2.8% of total mobile subscriber base. MVNO new subscribers accounted for 23% of new mobile subscribers in 4Q06. Brazil has passed 100m mobile users in January. China Unicom has added 1.4m new...
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Operator subscribers - 15/02/07
Reliance added 1.2m new subscribers in January to bring its total base to 28m. CTI Movil ended 2006 with almost 11m mobile users in Argentina (over 10m alone), Paraguay and Urugay. Claro (Chile) reports a total subscriber base of 2.4m at the end of 2006....
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Fixed contracts - 29/09/07
NSN has received an order from DT for an IP network maintenance contract. ALU will deliver IP routing solution (including IP/MPLS switching and routing products) for next-generation residential services to Telecom NZ. It will deploy a triple play capable...
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Subscriber figures - 07/02/07
Mostelecom (cable operator in Russia) has about 3m subscribers. PLDT (Philippines) said it had 24m mobile subscribers at the end of 2006. Ukraine's Kyivstar susbcriber base rose 3% in January to 22.2m mobile users. Singtel (Singapore) reported a total...
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Mobile contracts - 29/09/07
Nortel (through its local partner Kapsch CarrierCom) won a new GSM-R (GSM for railways) contract with Czech Railways. ALU has signed four contracts with three China Mobile units (Ghuizhou , Shanxi, Shanghai) for their GSM networks and one China Unicom...
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Subscriber figures - 03/02/07
DT had 33.2m fixed line subscribers in Germany, 31.4 m mobile subscribers in Germany and about 25m in the US (+15%) Its total mobile subscriber base is over 100m worldwide. Verizon Wireless gained 2.3m new users in 4Q06 to a total of 59.1m. Morocco ended...
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Subscriber figures - 27/01/07
Paraguay currently has 70,000 internet subscribers. Ukraine had about 204,000 CDMA WLL (fixed wireless local loop) subscribers at the end of 2006, of which 95,000 for Velton Telecom, the market leader. China ended 2006 with 51.9m broadband internet users...
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Subscriber figures - 23/01/07
Portugal has reached a mobile subscriber base of almost 12m as of Sept. 06. VNPT (Vietnam) added 1.2m fixed line subscribers, 151k internet users and 3.3m mobile subscribers in 2006. VNPT had in total 17.9m telephone subscribers. Pakistan' s mobile subscriber...
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Subscriber figures - 22/01/07
China Mobile added 4.8m new mobile users in Dec. 06 and 54.6m in 2006 (up 28.5%), ended 2006 with 301,2m mobile subscribers. China Unicom added 1.3m new users in Dec.06, and 14.6m news users in 2006, down 7%, and ended 2006 with 142.4m mobile subscribers,...
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People - 10/02/07
Nortel plans to cut about an additional 2,900 positions or 9% of its workforce. Mike Volpi, from Cisco, is immediately leaving the company. Level 3 plans to cut 1,000 jobs as part of an acquisition integration and cost-cutting plan. Alcatel-Lucent has...
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Subscriber figures - 18/01/07
In Mexico, the number of internet users reached 20.5m at the end of 2006. MTS (Russia) rises its subscriber base to 72.9m at the enf of Dec. 06. Telefónica (World) says it had 7.3m broadband customers at the end of September 2006, of which 3.4m in Spain....
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Subscriber figures - 16/01/07
Virgin Mobile reports 304k mobile subscribers in France, and targets 1m in two years and MVNO pole position in France. Virgin Mobile has 10m users workdwide, of which 3m in the US. Fastweb' s customer base in Italy rose to 1.1m at the end of the year...
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Subscriber figures - 13/01/07
Reliance (India) added 1.4m new customers in dec. 06, bringing its total to almost 30m. NRJ mobile (MVNO in France) reports 312k customers at year-end. Amp'd (MVNO in the US) reports 100k subscribers at year-end, with ARPU of over $100, of which 30% from...
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Subscriber figures - 06/01/07
Virgin Mobile USA finished 2006 with 4.6m mobile subscribers, up 600,000 in 8 months. The Dominican Republic reported a 17% increase in mobile subscribers in nine months to 4.3m. MetroPCS (USA) had 2.6m subscribers at the end of September 2006, up 50%....
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Subscriber figures - 03/01/07
Onatel (Burkina Faso) currently has 400k mobile customers. Orange (FT) currently has 3.5m broadband mobile customers, including 3G, HSDPA and EDGE. Thailand reports 39m mobile users, up 8.5m in 2006. BT (UK) should pass 10m broadband lines this week,...
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People - 07/02/07
Alcatel-Lucent: rumors of additional job cuts. In addition to 9,000 layoffs announced, 6,000 to 11,000 other jobs could be fired, almost double of previous announcement. Unions could call for a strike. Sony Ericsson will hire 100 engineers in the US....