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Operator results - 06/05/06
BCE (Canada) reports better-than-expected 1Q06 results. Revenues rose 2% to $4.1bn and EPS rose 2% to 45 cents. SingTel (Singapore) announced better-than-expected earnings at $1bn for the quarter (underlying earnings were at $610m, up 14%) and $2.6bn...
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Operator results - 03/05/06
SK Telecom reported 1Q06 net income of $355m, down 8%, on revenues of $2.7bn, up 5%. CANTV (Venezuela) posts 1Q05 profit pf $74m (down 37%) and revenues of $576m, up 32%. EBITDA fell 2% to $172m. Iusacell (Mexico) announced a net loss of $44m in 1Q06...
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Operator results - 29/04/06
Sprint Nextel posted 1Q06 net income of $419m, down 11%, but revenues rose 9% proforma to $11.5bn. Proforma mobile revenues reached $8.5bn (+13%). Mobile ARPU was $62, of which $7 for data revenues. Long distance services accounted for $1.7bn, down 3%,...
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Mobile orders - 16/09/07
RAD Data has been awarded a contract by Japan' s eMobile for deploying its ACE-3000 cell-site gateways for mobile broadband backhaul. ALU has inked a $150m contract with Cambodian cellco CamGSM for rural network expansion, and will expand the Mobinil'...
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Operator results - 26/04/06
Verisign reported $374m in revenues (down 4%) with earnings of $16m, down 68%. SFR (France) reports 2.9% increase in 1Q06 proforma revenues to $2.6bn. Teliasonera (Sweden) posts $489m in 1Q06 net profit (+16%) on sales increasing 6% to $2.9bn. EBITDA...
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Operator results - 22/04/06
China Mobile reported 1Q06 revenues up 19% to $8.1bn, net profit of $1.8bn and an EBITDA up 21% to $4.5bn. EBITDA margin rose to 55%. Bellsouth announced a 26% fall in 1Q06 net income to $784m, while sales remained almost flat at $5.2bn. Excluding a gain...
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Operator results - 21/04/06
Indosat (Indonesia) posted 2005 net profit of $182m, down 0.6%. Maroc Telecom reported $585m in 1Q06 revenues (+12%), of which $363m in mobile services (+16%) and $341m in fixed revenues (+8%). Yahoo announced strong increase (+34%) in net revenues to...
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Global operators strategies - 16/09/07
BT plans to invest about $70m in China over the next few years, and has purchased Belgium-based network and systems integrator INS Group. MTC (Kuwait) will rebrand international operations as Zain by end 2008 in order to become one of the top ten global...
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Fixed operators strategies - 16/09/07
Vodafone is considering buying the Italian and Spanish assets of Tele2, and provide fixed line broadband services in these countries. The WiMAX Forum targets to win spectrum in China, despite the opposition of the Chinese government to WIMAX as a 4G technology....
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Mobile operators strategies - 16/09/07
Vodafone will sell the Samsung F700, a rival to to Apple's iPhone, for Xmas. It will also offer 15 new 3G handsets and an unlimited music download service on 2.5G and 3G handsets. Clearwire and ICO will collaborate for trialling mobile TV. Turkcell (Turkey)...
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Subscriber figures - 16/09/07
CDG reports that the global cdma2000 1xEV-DO subscriber base reached 75m, while cumulative cdma2000 subscriber base surpassed 400m users worldwide. Taiwan has almost 2.5m 3G subscribers: 1.6m for Chunghwa Telecom, and almost 1m for each Mobile and FarEastone....
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Operator results - 01/04/06
China Unicom posted revenue growth of 16% in 2005 to $10,8bn, of which $6.5bn in GSM services and $3.8bn in CDMA business. Net income reached $610m. ARPU was $6 for GSM and $9.4 for CDMA. Indosat (Indonesia) reports an EBITDA of $695m in 2005, up 12%,...
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People - 13/01/07
BenQ Mobile is firing 310 employees at its Manaus (Brazil) plant. Sprint Nextel plans to cut 5000 positions as it unifies business and customer care systems. Altimo (Russia) has appointed Kurt Hellstrom, former Ericsson CEO, to its international advisory...
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People - 24/09/06
SingTel names Chua Sock Koong as new CEO; it was previously head of its international business. KPN will cut management by 300 people and hire 350 sales staff at its E-Plus mobile unit in Germany. Iridium Satellite named Matthew Desch its new CEO, replacing...
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Operator result - 17/9/05
Bouygues Telecom (France) reported 1H05 results. Net profit rose 39% to € 384m, on sales up 6% to € 2.2bn. Portugal Telecom reports 2Q05 results: profit fell 33% to €259m, while sales rose 5% to €3bn. Google is preparing a cash pile of several billions...
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People - 16/09/06
The Indonesian government plans to replace Telkom president Arwin Rasyid in Oct for underperformance.. Didier Quillot, head of Orange France, quits France Telecom. Motorola France named Jean-Michel Defranchi as country manager for France and Belgium....
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People - 11/09/06
Colubris Networks named three new directors to its board: Vice President of International Business Rafael de Ory to interface with strategic partner Alcatel; Howard Kim Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan; and Director of Transportation Solutions...
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Operator results - 1/9/05
PT Indosat posted $560m in 1H05 earnings, up 16%. Mobilkom Austria group revenues rose by4% to € 1.1bn in 1H05 Eircom (Ireland) reports revenues of €399, almost flat, with an EBITDA of €149m, down 3%. OTE (Greece) posted 2Q05 net profit of €119m, +164%,...
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Operator results & - 27/8/05
NTT’s revenues fell 2% to $22bn, while net income declined 4.4% to $1.6bn. NTT DoCoMo ( Japan) announced a 22% yoy leap in net profit, to $1.85bn on sales of $10.6bn (down 2.8%). ARPU slid 6.2% to $61. BT achieved 2Q05 net earnings rising 24% to $652m,...
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People - 06/09/06
Jean-Marc Odet has been named Business Sales Director at Nortel France. Erenis, a French triple play operator in Paris, has hired Daniel Caclin, ex FT executive. DT is reshufling its mnagement team with CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke in charge of overall responsibility...
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Operator results 2 - 27/8/05
SingTel announced $482m in 2Q05 profit (+14%), $1.9bn in revenues (+6.4%) and $0.97bn in EBITDA (+6%). Vodafone delivered organic growth of 12% in proportionate subscriber base to 165m, while revenues grew 8.6%. KDDI (Japan) said its group revenue dropped...
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People - 25/08/06
ECI Telecom appoints Avi Cohen as Chief Operating Officer. AOL' s CTO is leaving the company. Kasenna appoints Sanjay Mehta as VP Engineering, focused on IPTV offerings. Nokia has unveiled business unit and regional leadership team for Nokia Siemens Networks:...
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Operator results - 2/7/05
Megafon ( Russia) announced FY04 results: net income surged 74% to $172m, EBITDA rose 72% to $621m, and revenues surged 82% to $1.5bn. Optus (Australia) posted FY05 revenues of $ 5.2bn, up 9%. Rostelecom (Russia) reported FY04 results of $150m in net...
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People - 29/07/06
Lee Hsien Yang, CEO of Singapore based Singtel is stepping down. Olivier Baujard is the Alcatel-Lucent new Corporate Technical Officer; Helle Kristoffersen is the Alcatel-Lucent new Corporate Strategy VP Jeong Kim will remain Président of the Bell Labs....
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Operator results - 01/09/07
China Telecom reported a 5% drop in 1H07 profit to €1.3bn, on revenues of €8.6bn, up 1.5%. EBITDA was up less than 1% to €4.3bn. Voice ARPU decreased 11%, hit by continuous decline in mobile tariffs. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) announced 1H07 revenues are...