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  • Subscriber figures - 11 June 2005

    11 juin 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Arcor's ADSL subscriber base rose 200% to 510,000, and the number of ISDN customers grew by 83% to 712,000. KDDI (Japan) reached about 20m mobile subscribers in its au unit. DoCoMo posted 49.2m users in May, of which 12.9m in 3G FOMA. Vodafone KK lost...

  • Subscriber figures - 8 June 2005

    08 juin 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Arcor's ADSL subscriber base base rose 200% to 510,000, and the number of ISDN customers grew by 83% to 712,000. KDDI (Japan) reached about 20m mobile subscribers in its au unit. DoCoMo posted 49.2m users in May, of which 12.9m in 3G FOMA. Vodafone KK...

  • Subscriber figures - 5 June 2005

    05 juin 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Vimplecom subscriber base rose 129% to 30.7m, adding some 4m new subscribers in 1Q05. Churn decreased to 5.9%. PT Telkomsel (Indonesia) added 4m new subscribers in 1Q05 to reach total 20m subscribers. Orange (France) announced it has gained some 83,500...

  • Subscriber figures - 28 May 2005

    28 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Turkcell (Turkey) has 23.4m mobile subscribers. Vivo (Brazil) has about 27m mobile subscribers. RomTelecom has over 4.3m fixed-lines and about 87k mobile subscribers. Pakistan had more than 10m mobile subscribers at the end of April. Central and Eastern...

  • Subscriber figures - 21st May 2005

    21 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    BT currently has some 5m broadband subscribers (up 261k in 1Q05). Viettel (Vietnam) reached 400K subscribers at the end of April, and with a 50% discount plan expects to reach 500k at he end of this month and 1.3m by year-end. Econet (Zimbabwe) reached...

  • Subscriber figures 05-18-05

    18 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Telefonica currently has 140m subscribers (including 9m from Ceski Telecom). It has 3.5m ADSL users (up 56%), of which 2.1m in Spain and 1.5m in LATAM. Cellular users reached 81.4m at the end of the quarter (up 50%), of which 59m in LATAM, 19m in Spain,...

  • Vendor results - 21/09/07

    21 septembre 2007 ( #Vendor - results )

    UTStarcom is launching some structural changes in order to go back to profitability. Four separate business units are formed: * Personal Communications Division, which sells handsets other than PAS * Terminal Business Units, developing handsets and related...

  • Global operator strategies - 21/09/07

    21 septembre 2007 ( #Operator- Strategies & Organization )

    DT bought SunCom Wireless, a regional operator in the USA, for $2.4bn in cash and debt. Suncom has about 1.1m subscribers in south east region. DT also bought Immobilienscout stake for about €360m. Vivendi (France) is planning external growth. It plans...

  • Subscriber figures - 21/10/07

    21 octobre 2007 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Ukraine: mobile subscribers number reached 53.6m in September, up 0.9m in the month. Russia announced 165.3m mobile subscribers (multi SIM cards), up 1.6m in September. Etisalat (UAE) reports it had 6.2m mobile subscribers in UAE. MTS (Russia) reports...

  • Subscriber figures 05-14-05

    14 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Telemig (Brazil) ended the quarter with 2.9m mobile users, up 19%. Telecom Argentina mobile subsidiary, Telecom Personal, had 4.2m mobile subscribers (+48%), while its main competitor Movistar (Telefonica Moviles) had 6m users. Bharti (India) had some...

  • People - 21/10/07

    21 octobre 2007 ( #People )

    Etisalat (UAE) reports 9mo earnings of $1.5bn (+30%), on sales of about $4.2bn, up 30%. Yahoo earned $151m in 3Q07, on revenues of $1.8bn, up 12%. EBay has lost $936m in 3Q07, on revenues of $1.9bn, up 30%. The loss is mainly due to huge charges to its...

  • Fixed operator strategies - 21/09/07

    21 septembre 2007 ( #Operator- fixed networks )

    Fastweb (Italy) is bidding for Tele2's Italian assets. TeliaSonera reaches 200k digital TV customers in Sweden. Mena Telecom is ready to launch WiMAX services by the end of the year. Indonesia has granted PT Bakrie Telecom with international land-line...

  • Mobile operator strategies - 21/09/07

    21 septembre 2007 ( #Operator- mobile networks )

    Leap Wireless (USA) has rejected a merger proposal from MetroPCS. Seven firms are in the final list of bidders for the second mobile license in Qatar. MTS (Russia) plans to spend $430m to take control of Armenia-based operator VivaCell. SK Telecom (S....

  • subscriber figures 05-12-05

    12 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Telecom Italia currently has 5m broadband subscribers (+3%), of which 568k abroad. Free ( France ) reported 1.2m broadband users, up 18%, 850k users for VOIP and 96k IPTV users. DoCoMo had 11.5m FOMA users (3G) in March 05. Cox Communications has some...

  • Subscriber figures (2)

    08 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    TIM has 26.2m users in Italy and 14.7m subscribers in Brazil. Echostar has a subscriber base of more than 11.3m. SingTel (Singapore) has 65m users in APAC, up 37%, of which 1.6m in Singapore and 5.9m in Australia. SingTel operates in Singapore, Australia,...

  • Subscriber figures

    01 mai 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    SBC currently has 5.6m DSL subscribers (up 10%) and 52 million access lines in service and 22m long distance lines (up 20%). Verizon Communications has 3.9m broadband connections, up 48%. Verizon Wireless said it has 45.5m customers, up 17%. Iusacell...

  • Mobile internet usage

    14 octobre 2007 ( #Top stories )

    According to XiTi, French mobile internet users will benefit from almost-unlimited connection time packages. The main results of a survey reveal that 70% of users only visit one web page, and when browsing several pages (average of 10), connection time...

  • Subscriber figures - 21/09/07

    21 septembre 2007 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    S. Korea: SK Telecom reached 21.5m subscribers by end-August, of which 804k 3G users; while KTF had 13.5m subscribers, of which 1.7m are 3G. India added almost 6m new mobile subscribers in August, bringing the total to 148m. Argentina: according to Prince...

  • 3G / HSDPA

    14 octobre 2007 ( #Top stories )

    3G WCDMA networks are going very high speed (80%, or 144 of the 182 commercial 3G networks): 23 networks are currently 3G+ at 7.2 Mbit/s; additional 52 are 3G+ at 3.6Mbit/s, and 69 at 1-2 Mbit/s. Other 45 HSDPA networks are in various phases of roll-out...

  • Subscriber figures N61

    21 avril 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Cingular currently has 50.4m subscribers, up 1.4m in the first quarter. Sprint announced it has 26m subscribers, up 22% in one year. Telstra reported 8.1m mobile subscribers at the end of 1Q05, and added 246k broadband users. Neuf Telecom (France) has...

  • Subscriber figures N60

    17 avril 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Etisalat (UAE) has 3.9m mobile subscribers, 1.2m fixed lines and 430k internet connections. China Netcom, by the end of 2004, had 6.2m broadband Internet access service subscribers; 80.4m fixed lines subscribers, of which 15.1m PHS subscribers. Vimpelcom...

  • Subscriber figures N59

    09 avril 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    BT has 5m ADSL broadband users. 3 UK has reached 3m 3G users in March. 3 Italy has reached 3.6m 3G users in March. 3 Australia has gained 90,000 3G users in 1Q05. Sun Cellular (Philippines) had 1.7m users by the end of February, and is gaining 200k users...

  • Subscriber figures N58

    03 avril 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    China Telecom has 186.7m fixed subscribers (+16%), of which 42m PAS (wireless local loop), and 14m broadband users (up 91%). China currently has 10m smartphone users. This number could reach 23m by 2006. Pakistan currently has about 8.9 mobile subscribers....

  • Subscriber figures N56

    17 mars 2005 ( #Operator- subscribers )

    Philippines : PLDT is adding 1000 new DSL subscribers per week. It targets 80,000 connections by end 2005. Smart added 4.5m cellular subscribers in 2004, while PilTel added 1.7m. Mobifon ( Romania ) currently has 4.9m mobile users and 48% market share...

  • Market researches - 16/09/07

    16 septembre 2007 ( #Market corner )

    A few set of market information released this week: According to Berg Insight, the number of mobile subscribers accessing maps and downloading routes using their mobile handsets in Europe and the USA is expected to grow to 43m by 2012 at a CAGR of 61%....