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Global operator strategies - 17/03/07
Telekom Malaysia plans to acquire firms in Laos and Vietnam, and invest over $1bn in foreign expansion in 2007. Pirelli Group plans to sell its 80% stake in Telecom Italia holding firm Olimpia. China telecom policy is still on works. With the target to...
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Global operator strategies - 20/06/06
China has committed to lending $66m to Ghana to fund telecom projects. Undoubtedly, this is part of current China' s strategy to invest in Africa, the fastest growing (mobile) telecom market today. SK Telecom (S. Korea) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in...
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Global operator strategies - 17/05/06
Rumors say that Verizon and Vodafone would have finally settled for the sale of the 45% stake Vodafone hold in Verizon Wireless. The deal should be worth $48bn + assumption of $8bn in debt. In order to stimulate broadband deployment in rural and regional...
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Global operator strategies - 10/03/07
The East-African submarine project EASSY has been renamed the Nepad Broadband Infrastructure Network (NBIN). China is launching a 5-year program to promote the industrialization and application of 3G and the enhanced technologies such as TD-SCDMA. MII...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 29/12/05
Motorola and Sanyo, with respectively their Razr and SCP-8200 mobile handsets, are most likely used in the US to download content such as ringtones, music or data. Nokia placed only one phone among the top 10. Nokia, Motorola and China Mobile have jointly...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 19/05/06
Siemens India has entered into a tie-up with Huawei-3Com for VOIP, data and video networking services. Audiocodes will acquire media gateway vendor Nuera Communications Inc. for $85 m. Huawei unveiled a super-large capacity Gigabit Passive Optical Network...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 13/09/06
Lucent has signed a reseller deal with Westell Technologies to sell Westell's IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) gateway as part of its IMS-based solution. Sonus has extended its partnership with Ulticom, a leading provider of network signaling solutions....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 27/01/07
BenQ has selected Kineto UMA technology for its new dual-mode handsets. Samsung and LG are also relying on Kineto for UMA technology, while Nokia and Motorola have made their own solution. Huawei and Qualcomm have completed mobile TV MBMS technology trial....
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Mobile operator strategies - 06/05/06
Universal Studios is the latest mainstream media giant to create a dedicated mobile division to focus on games, ringtones, video clips etc. KTF (Sth Korea) plans to launch 3G services in 1H07, after an investment of $780m to build its 3G HSDPA network....
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Fixed operator strategies - 19/10/06
MTN Nigeria has opened a $300m Fiber Optic Backbone. Phase I and II are completed, constituting 2420 km of fiber optic network, out of the final project of 3536km. Du (UAE) has started WiMAX trials in Dubai. Arcor (Germany) has started to sell the Arcor-Twintel...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 25/08/06
Symbian has shipped 24m Symbian OS units in the first half of this year (+ 66%). Comverse is paying $19m for Netonomy, a developer of customer self-service, bill analysis and point of sale software for wireless communications. BenQ-Siemens has launched...
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Operator Corner (2) - 14/06/08
FT could cancel its offer on Teliasonera if the Scandinavian operator does not support a friendly approach or if financial markets remain opposed to the deal. Simultaneously, Teliasonera confirmed that Telenor is also interested in launching a takeover...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 18/02/06
Nokia and Sony Ericsson will collaborate for interoperability of digital terrestrial mobile DVB-H standard. Motorola and Nokia are introducing new mobile handsets that can switch calls between Bluetooth, cellular, and WiFi networks Cisco announced the...
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Global operator strategies - 20/08/06
Google swallows mobile photo-recognition software developer Neven Vision. Boingo Wireless raises $65m in Series C funding. Vodafone Portugal is considering offering fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services in the country. While Portugal Telecom is always...
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Mobile operator strategies - 02/06/06
Four German mobile operators (T-Mobile , O2, Vodafone and E-Plus) have decided to join forces to promote mobile TV services, during the World Soccer Cup in June/ July. The monthly fee should be ranging from €5 to €15, depending on the number of channels...
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Vendor results - 04/02/06
JDSU reported 4Q05 losses of $42m (almost flat) on revenues of $313m (+73%). JDSU sees continued strong demand for optical components. Alcatel announced better than expected results. Its net profit rose 61% in 2005 to €930m on revenues of €13bn (+7%)....
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Global operator strategies - 27/01/07
Vodafone, Reliance, Hinduja are left in the race for Hutchison Essar stake. Orascom and Altimo, however, still have indicated their interest in the race. Orascom said it is strong of a right of first refusal on the stake in HTIL (parent company of Hutch...
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Global operator strategies - 05/10/06
Yahoo will provide its Yahoo Mail source code. Telecom Italia workers went on strike to protest against plans to reorganize the company. Chile plans to invest €30m in the telecommunications market in 2007 and 2008. Brazil plans to spend $460m on WiMAX,...
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Fixed vendor orders (1)
LogicaCMG received an order from T-Mobile International to build and operate the next-generation portal for t-zones. Motorola is trialing its Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) solution with seven European operators, including Teliasonera Denmark. Operators...
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Fixed orders 05-14-05
Nortel will supply BT with Centrex IP, in order to enhance its contact center services with voice over IP. It will deliver to Tiscali Italia an optical infrastructure across more than 300 Italian cities. Cisco is providing Swisscom with Ethernet for business...
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Mobile orders - 14/06/06
Nokia has been awarded HSDPA contract by SFR (France) for Paris and south of France regions; it also has bagged a GSM order from C&W in British Virgin Islands. It will provide bas stations, softswitches and professional services. Nokia has been selected...
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Fixed vendors orders
UTStarcom received new orders, worth $ 50m and $ 20m respectively, from China Telecom and China Netcom to expand their respective PAS (WLL) network. Total PAS subscribers in China reached 72m by the end of March. UTStarcom announced an expansion contract...
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Vendor results - 10/06/07
Starent Networks raised $124m in an IPO, giving it a market capitalization of about $750m, while Infinera has gained $165m net proceeds from its IPO. Infinera share went up 20% after the first trading starting at $13 (and giving Infinera a market capitalization...
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Vendor results - 19/10/05
Sony Ericsson posts Q3 net profit rising to €104m (+16%), while sales gained 22% to €2.1bn. It sold 13.8m mobile phones in 3Q, up 29% boosted by camera phones and Walkman music phones. Its ASP (average selling price), however, continues to slide yoy....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 28/1/06
Motorola announced MOTOMESH, its multi-radio, mesh networking system for municipal wireless communications solution. It also unveiled a new HSDPA access point solution, AXPT, to enable indoor mobile broadband access. ZTE share gained more than 8% on hopes...