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Subscriber figures - 17/12/05
China had 732m telephone users, of which 383m were mobile users and 349m were fixed-line, as of the end of Oct.. China added 48.2m new mobile users and 36.8m fixed-line users in the January-October period. It is expected that China would have over 440m...
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Subscriber fihures - 10/12/05
India currently has 38,5m internet users, up 54% yoy. That number is expected to grow to 100m in 2 years. The number of cyber cafes in cities and towns across India moved from 18,000 in 2001 to 105,350 this year. MTC (Kuwait) has over 12m subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 30/11/05
SMARTS' mobile subscribers reached 2,6m, as of October 1. The Omani cellular market passed the 1-million benchmark (+23%). HK' s Hutchison 3G subscribers exceed 400,000. Indosat (Indonesia) is one of the major players in Indonesia having 12.7m subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 26/11/05
Algeria reached 12m mobile subscribers at the end of Oct.05. South Korea currently has 37m mobile subscribers, up 7%, and 11,3m broadband internet users. MTN (S. Africa) had a subscriber base of 20,6m at the end of Sept.05. Indian subscriber numbers should...
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Subscriber figures - 24/11/05
LATAM mobile subscribers reached 222m in 9/05, according to 3G Americas. GSM account for 47% with 104m users; TDMA has a 28% market share and CDMA 25%. More than 80% of GSM subscribers are in 5 countries: Brazil: 38m; Mexico: 22,6m; Colombia: 11m; Argentina:...
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Subscriber figures - 19/11/05
Vodafone 3G subscriber base was 4,9m at the end of Sept.05. Telecom Argentina announced 5,3m mobile subscribers (of which 51% are GSM), 3,6m fixed line users and 188,000 broadband subscribers. Digicel (Jamaica) announced 1,4m mobile subscribers. Virgin...
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Market Researches - 21/09/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Analysys, average revenue leakage among global telecom operators increased 1.5 point to 13.6% in 2006, and average fraud losses have grown 1.6 points in 2007 to 4.5% of revenues. According...
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Global vendor strategies - 21/09/07
Nokia has agreed to buy mobile advertising firm Enpocket (USA). Nokia pursues its transformation into a multimedia service provider. ALU is acquiring Thompson Advisory Group (TAG), a specialist in the procurement of telecom services, in the USA. Cisco...
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Subscriber figures - 15/11/05
Bangladesh's GrameenPhone has crossed the 5m subscriber-mark milestone (from 2,4m users at the beginning of the year). By the end of Sept. 2005, Egypt had 12m mobile and 10.3m fixed line subscribers (teledensity of 14%). While the fixed-line subscriber...
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Subscriber figures - 13/11/05
India' s COAI reported a record subscriber growth of more than 2m mobile subscribers during the month of October'05 to a total of 53m. Bharti has 28% market share, BSNL 23,6%, Hutchison 19,2% and Idea 12%. All other operators have market share below 5,5%....
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Subscriber figures - 9/11/05
China had 376m mobile subscribers at the end of September, and could have about 390m at the end of the year. T-Online (Germany) has 4,6m DSL subscribers at the end of 3Q05. Japan: DoCoMo added 90k new users in October, bringing the total to 50m, of which...
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Subscriber figures - 5/11/05
AIS (Thailand) currently has 16m mobile subscribers and holds a 50%+ local market share. Telefonica Moviles has 89m mobile users (up 52%), of which 19,6m in Spain, 65,6m in LATAM and 6m in Mexico. O2 Germany has added more than 600k mobile users in past...
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Subscriber figures - 3/11/05
Sibirtelecom (Russia) has 4m fixed-line subscribers and 1.6m mobile service users, Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) had 8,1m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept., and 3,5 m broadband users, Taiwan has 1m 3G subscribers, of which 700k with Asia Pacific Broadband...
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Subscriber figures - 30/10/05
Telesp Celular (Brazil) ended September 05 with 19.4m customers, up 2%. Tele Centro Oeste Celular (Brazil) had 6.6m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. (up 23.6%). Hungary reports 90% mobile penetration rate in the country with 9.7m active mobile users....
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Subscriber figures - 27/10/05
China added5.15m new mobile subscribers in September alone, bringing the total to 377.9m. Mobile teledensity reached 29%. Covad (USA) ended the third quarter of 2005 with approximately 578,400 broadband lines in service. Broadband connections in Chile...
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Subscriber figures - 23/10/05
China Telecom had almost 207m local telephone customers, 19.2m broadband customers and 55m Little Smart users, at the end of Sept. Telkomsel (Indonesia) has 24m subscribers, and a 56% market share. Etisalat (UAE) currently has 4.3 mobile users, 470k internet...
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Subscriber figures - 19/10/05
Mobiltel, Bulgaria, has 3.3m mobile customers, while its current competitor, Globul, has 1.9 m users. Brazil has a total subscriber base to 80m users, according to local regulator Anatel, of which Vivo has 36%, Telecom Italia has 23% and Claro has 21.7%....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 21/09/07
Huawei is turning to WiMAX and heavily invests in R&D. ECI Telecom introduces AccessWave, a compact, optical edge and access networking platform. In a separate news, It should be negotiating selling all (or at least three) of its factories to global contract-manufacturing...
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Subscriber figures - 13/10/05
India's GSM-based cellular subscriber base is close to the 51m mark. India added 1.95m subscribers in September. Bharti retained its leading position with a market share of 27.7%, followed by BSNL at 23.4% and Hutch at 19.1%. MVNO “M6 by Orange” (France)...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 21/09/07
NSN is working with Airvana on femtocells. A joint solution is expected by the end of 2007. Samsung plans to launch touch-screen cell phone, F700, in Europe in Nov. Ericsson has launched its U335 WCDMA mobile platform for mass market HSPA devices. Cubic...
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Subscriber figures - 21/06/2005
China Mobile announced it added 3.4m new subscribers in May to a total of 220.5m, of which 160m are prepaid users. China Unicom recorded 1.44m new users in May, of which 894k for its GSM system, to a total of 119.2m (of which 88.7m GSM users). China had...
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Fixed contracts - 21/09/07
Colubris will deliver WiFi equipment to PCCW (HK) for a planned wireless service in Hong Kong metro stations. Ericsson is to supply a fiber-optic submarine network to link six coastal provinces in Angola. ZTE will build a backbone transmission network...
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Mobile contracts - 21/09/07
Ericsson has upgraded 3 Scandinavia network with enhanced mobile broadband services at up to 7.2Mbit/s. It has bee awarded two contracts for hosted multimedia services: a ringback tones service and content downloads, by CellularOne (Dobson group) in the...
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Subscriber figures - 18/6/05
Leap Wireless reports it had 1.6m mobile subscribers in March. Brazil: mobile subscriber number reached 73.7m in May, up 40%, on a population of about 182m. GSM accounts for 42% and CDMA for 29%. DoCoMo (Japan) announced it currently has 13m 3G FOMA subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 16 June 2005
T-Mobile USA announced it has served more than 450,000 unique paying customers across its Wi-Fi network during the last three months. Its hotspot customers can now access to more than 25,000 locations worldwide. Japan's domestic shipments of mobile handsets...