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People - 03/02/07
The Nokia-Siemens Networks merger is expected to result in a headcount adjustement of about 10%-15% over the next four years or about 6,000- 9,000 people out. KPN appoints Thorsten Dirks as new CEO of E-Plus unit in Germany. Carl Icahn has been nominated...
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Subscriber figures - 30/12/06
SibirTelecom (Russia) reports 3m mobile users (+50%) at the end of Nov. China had 455m mobile users by the end of Nov. (+ ca 62m new users since 01-01-06). It also has 132m Internet users. Vietnam has added 10m new telephone subscribers in 2006 (+188%)....
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Subscriber figures - 28/12/06
Brazil had 97.3m mobile subscriners at Nov.-end (up 18%). China had 51m broadband Internet users at the end of November, of which 36.5m were DSL.. France: Orange currently has 5.5m ADSL subscribers, followed by Free with 2.1m and Neuf Cegetel with 2m....
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Subscriber figures - 21/12/06
Vodafone Germany currently has over 30m mobile subscribers. China Mobile has 296.4m mobile users and is the largest mobile operator in the world by customers. China Unicom reported 105m mobile GSM subscribers and 36.1m CDMA customers. China Telecom added...
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Subscriber figures - 16/12/06
43% of Irish households have an internet connection, of which 42% are ADSL and 39% use dial-up connections. Orascom Telecom has surpassed the 50m subscriber mark. India exceeds now 100m GSM subscribers. Ukraine' subscriber base reached 44m as of November...
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Subscriber figures - 12/12/06
43% of Irish households have an internet connection, of which 42% are ADSL and 39% use dial-up connections. Orascom Telecom has surpassed the 50m subscriber mark. India exceeds now 100m GSM subscribers. Ukraine' subscriber base reached 44m as of November...
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Subscriber figures - 09/12/06
Japan: In November, DoCoMo lost 17,500 subscribers (first ever drop), KDDI added 479k new subscribers and Softbank added 68,700 new subscribers. DoCoMo holds 55% of the Japanese mobile market, followed by KDDI with 28.5% and Softbank with 16.5%. DoCoMo'...
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Fixed operators strategies - 29/09/07
FT targets to form a JV, called HNSA for Home Network Software Applications, with its Livebox makers (Thomson and Sagem/Safran), to harmonize interfaces ans applications between various home entertainment devices. FT would hold 60% and Thomson and Sagem...
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Mobile operators strategies - 29/09/07
TeliaSonera and Telenor are in talks with Apple over the sale of iPhone in Scandinavia. DoCoMo opens its fourth foreign office in Vietnam, after China (Beijing and Shanghai) and Singapore. Thailand: CAT Telecom has refused to sell its 42% stake in Thai...
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Subscriber figures - 29/09/07
Bangladesh-based Grameenphone has crossed the 15m mobile phone subscriber mark. The total number of telephone subscribers in India has reached 241m at the end of August, up 4%. Pakistan added 2.4m new subscribers in August, bringing its total of over...
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Subscriber figures - 06/12/06
Cablevision (Mexico) had 459k CATV subscribers, out of 1.5m passed households and a 11,000 km network. Saoudi Arabian Mobily' s user-base was 4.8m by the end of September 2006. Ukraine ends October with 41.5m mobile subscribers. Kyivstar (Ukraine) a total...
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ALU profit warning, again
It is another dark period for ALU, announcing a new profit warning (the third in the year) and sending down annual revenue forecast. First facts: ALU expects now flat 2007 revenue (vs mid-single digits growth) and admitted that profitability is likely...
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Subscriber figures - 22/11/06
Brazil had almost 97m (+1%qoq) mobile subscribers at the end of Oct. China Unicom added almost 1.3m subscribers in October, bringing its total to 140m, of which 140m are GSM. China Mobile reported the addition of 4.6m new subscribers last month, bringing...
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Subscriber figures - 18/11/06
Meteor Mobile (Ireland) claims having 16% if Irish mobile market with 750k users. Tele Norte Celular (Brazil) recorded 1.3m mobile subscribers in the quarter. UMC (Ukraine) reached 16.9m mobile subscribers, as of November 1. Portugal reports 1.6m internet...
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Subscriber figures - 15/11/06
Orascom Telecom reported that it had 46.5m mobile subscribers (+83%) in 7 countries at the end of Sept, of which 21m in Africa ((Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Zimbabwe), and 20m in Pakistan. Its proportional subscriber base expanded by 100% to 36.9m. Vodacom...
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Subscriber figures - 11/11/06
France: there were 49.8m mobile subscribers in France at the end of Sept. Philippines: PLDT had 23m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept., of which 16.5m under the Smart brand and 6.4m under Piltel brand. Telecom Italia has 8.2m broadband customers in...
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Subscriber figures - 09/11/06
Hungary: the number of fixed line connections reached 3.38m in Sept., down 0.3%, but the number of ADSL lines grew 5% to 252,000. Wataniya Telecom (Kuwait) reported a subscriber base of 8.8m at the end of Sept. SingTel (Singapore) said it currently has...
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Subscriber figures - 04/11/06
Base (Belgium) had 2.2m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. Rogers Comm. (Canada) had 6.5m mobile subscribers (up 3%)qoq, 1.25m broadband internet connections, 2.3m basic video subscriptions and 1.1m digital cable subscribers. MTS (Belarus) reported...
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Subscriber figures - 02/11/06
SFR (France) said it has passed 2m 3G subscribers milestone in France, and should have 2.5m at the end of the year. SFR targets 65% France coverage at year-end. America Movil, Latam' s biggest mobile operator, added 6.2m new subscribers in 3Q06, bringing...
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Subscriber figures - 29/10/06
Colombia mobile subscriber base rose to over 29m in Sept., of which almost 19m from Comcel. SK Telecom (Sth Korea) had 20m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. Millicom had 15m mobile subscribers in Sept., of which 2.2m in Ola (Colombia), 4.25m in Central...
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Subscriber figures - 24/10/06
Ukraine had more than 40m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. US: Cingular reported 54m mobile subscribers at the end of June, ahead of Sprint Nextel with about 51m and T-Mobile with 23.3m. China Mobile ended September with 287.1m mobile subscribers....
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Subscriber figures - 13/10/06
T-Mobile USA has about 23.3m cellular subscribers. Globalcom (Nigeria) has connected about 8m cellular subscribers. Virgin Mobile is close to reach 5m subscribers. Bangladesh currently has about 9m mobile phone subscribers and around 1m fixed-line phones,...
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Subscriber figures - 07/10/06
South Korea has risen its mobile subscriber base to 39.7m at the end of September. Spain reached 6m broadband connections as of August (+1m in 8 months), of which 4.7m were ADSL and 1.3m were cable. Japan: DoCoMo mobile subscribers increased by 126k in...
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iPhone in Europe
Europe will also have iPhone. Apple announced that O2 will resell the device in the UK, Orange in France and DT in Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Hungary and Croatia. The launch would be made in early November, but conditions are not yet known. Will...
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Subscriber figures - 22/12/05
China Mobile added 3,9m new mobile subscribers in November to a total of 243m, while China Unicom added 0,9m to a total of 94,1m. China could finish 2005 with 393m mobile subscribers. STC (Saudi Arabia) has increased the number of new users by 1.4m to...