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Mobile operator strategies - 13/10/07
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular (all in India) are considering merging their tower operations. Teliasonera is testing NFC (Near Field Communications) in Sweden. Vimpelcom/ Armentel has been granted a 3G license in Armenia, as well as K-Telecom/MTS....
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Subscriber figures - 11/09/06
Kyivstar ' s subscriber base rose 3.9% to 17.2m as of end of August. 11m (+41%) broadabnd users in France as of June. Free (France) claims EU leading position in number of VOIP users with 1.6m, TV over ADSL users with 1.3m. Free had 1.9m ADSL users as...
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Subscriber figures - 31/08/06
Ecuador had 7.7m mobile phone users at the end of July. China' s fixed lines subscriber base is expected to reach 425m by 2009. China Telecom had 219m in June. Latest estimates: there were 70 m WCDMA subscribers in the world at the end of June. MTN (S....
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Subscriber figures - 25/08/06
Orascom (Egypt) announced 41m (+93%) mobile subscribers as of 30 June 2006. UK internet penetration up 5% to 13.9m households, or 57% penetration. Hutchison now has 13.5 m subscribers globally (3.8m in the UK, 6.8m in Italy). China Unicom said its total...
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Subscriber figures - 13/10/07
Japan: Softbank is the winner in 1H07 mobile subscriber growth with about 1.1m new users, while KDDI added just over 1m and DoCoMo only 320k. Ukraine: 53m mobile subscriber base at end-August, with Kyivstar having a 43% market share and Mobile TeleSystems/UMC...
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Subscriber figures - 23/08/06
Denmark had achieved penetration levels of the order of 98% with 5.3m mobile users. Colombia had 28m mobile phone subscribers at end-June 2006. Belgium reached 2.4m internet subscribers, up 12%. China had 431m mobile users as of the end of July (+45%).....
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Subscriber figures - 20/08/06
Kyivstar (Ukraine) announced that at the end of June it had 16m subscribers. Telemig's user base in Brazil increased to 3.4m, up 13%. Brazil 's mobile customer base reached 93m at the end of July. Pakistan has reached 34.5m mobile user base in June. MTS...
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Subscriber figures - 06/08/06
Etisalst's mobile user base is over 5m, or 120% penetration. US Cellular increased its subscriber base to 5.5m. Vonage currently has 1.9m subscirbers. Singtel (Singapore) reported a total subscribr base of 92m et the end of June. TDC (Denmark) reports...
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Subscriber figures - 29/07/06
Bharti Airtel (India) added 3.7m new customers in 2Q06 to reach a subscriber base of 24.5m. Telecom Italia announced 7.9m broadband users at the end of June. 1.6m are abroad in France, Germany and Holland. It also said it had 30.4m mobile subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 24/07/06
The UMTS Forum estimates there are over 38m UMTS customers in Europe and 75m worldwide. MTN Congo had 222k mobile users as of 31 March 2006. Kyivstar' subscriber base rose 15% to 16m mobile subscribers in Ukraine as of July 1. Bangladeshi mobile operator...
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Market Corner
A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, more than 430m SIP and UMA terminals would be sold in 2012. According to Insight Research, FMC services would generate more than $35bn in revenue for service providers and hardware...
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Subscriber figures - 02/07/06
Eurotel (Czech Rep.) has over 4m mobile subscribers. Jazztel (Spain) had 245,000 DSL subscribers as of April 30. Bangladesh is expected to have at least 12m mobile phone subscribers by the end of 2006 There are 1.7m broadband subscribers in Hong Kong....
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Global vendor strategies - 07/10/07
Nokia will pay $8bn for the US navigation software maker Navtech. With the move, it confirms it is more and more interested in mobile content. LogicaCMG has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The ALU board has issued a statement to say...
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Subscriber figures - 28/06/06
Australia had 3.2m fixed broadband users and 71.6k wireless broadband customers as of March 06. Portugal Telecom reached 1m broadband users in June 06. Mobistar (Belgium) passed the 3m mobile users mark at the end of May. LATAM GSM mobile user base reached...
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Subscriber figures - 24/06/06
Brazil had 92.4m mobile users at the end of May, adding 1.8m in one month. Vivo maintained its leadership in May with 33% of subscribers, followed by TIM with 23.6% and Claro with 22.2% China has reached 420m mobile users at the end of May, adding 27.4m...
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People - 10/03/07
Nokia has named Mark Louison to lead its device business in North America and head Nokia Inc.. ALU has appointed Christian Reinaudo as the President of the company’s Europe and North activities. He will also continue in his current role as Integration...
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Subscriber figures - 20/06/06
China Mobile added 4.4 customers in May and brings its total base to 269,4m. China Telecom added 1.3m users in May, bringing its total base to 217.8m. The number of T-DMB users in South Korea reached 1m since its launch in December 2005. DoCoMo has more...
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Subscriber figures - 14/06/06
Telenor had 510k ADSL subscribers at the end of March. Vietnam: about 12m mobile subscribers (or a penetration of below 15%) Globe Telecom has increased its mobile subscriber base to 13.2m at the end of March. The UMTS Forum reports that there are now...
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Subscriber figures - 09/06/06
: mobile customer base reached 8.9m at the end of March, up 4% yoy. : KDDi added 261k new users in May, bringing its total to 23.3m mobile users. DoCoMo gained 134k new users in May, reaching 51.5m mobile users base, of which 25.3m are 3G. Reliance Telecom...
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Subscriber figures - 27-05-06
Millicom International currently has 9m mobile subscribers in 16 countries in Latam, Africa and Asia. Orascom Telecom has reported 35m mobile subscribers by the end of March, up 100%, but its proportionate subscriber base rose 121% to just below 27m....
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People - 01/03/07
Alcatel-Lucent will set up an exceptional European group Committee on March, 16 under the leadership of Patricia Russo, to deepen the dialogue with its social partners and present and discuss the strategies of the different market segments. It will also...
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Subscriber figures - 23/05/06
China Unicom added 1.2m new mobile subscribers in April, bringing its total subscriber base to 133m, of which 98.8m are GSM . China Telecom added 1.3m new fixed subscribers in April, and brings its total number of local-access subscribers to 216.5m. China...
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Subscriber figures - 19/05/06
China Mobile added 4.3m new mobile subscribers in April, bringing its total base to 265m. BT had 7.9m broadband users at the end of March. Hutchison Telecom announced 21.1m mobile subscribers (up62%) as of end of March, of which 2m in Hong Kong and Macau,...
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Subscriber figures - 17/05/06
Telecom Argentina had 6.4m (+50%) mobile subscribers at the end of March, 4m of fixed line subscribers and 244k broadband fixed customers. Venezuela: mobile penetration reached 51% with 13.7m mobile users (+55%) at the end of March. MTN (South Africa)...
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Fixed operator strategies - 16/09/06
SkyDSL is offering a satellite 2 to 4Mbit/s access with limited volume downloaded for €10/ month. The offer is modular and can be increased in speed, volume downloaded by increments of €10. China Telecom intends to expand business in Europe and opens...