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Fixed operator strategies - 10/05/06
Telefonica has signed a content deal with Warner Brothers for its IPTV and video-on-demand (VOD) Imagenio offerings. BT has launched a major Ethernet equipment RFP for its 21CN NG project. Colt has also launched an an Ethernet equipment RFP. FT is said...
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Operator results N49
Chunghwa Telecom ( Taiwan ) posted 2004 sales of $ 5.8bn, up 2%, and a net profit of $1.6bn (+3%). Cingular Wireless: 2004 sales of $ 19.4bn, up 25.5% and operating income of $ 1.5bn (down 33.5%). Net income was $ 226m (down 78%). Cingular currently has...
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Fixed operator strategies - 03/05/06
Level 3 has agreed to acquire TelCove, for $1.2bn. The deal provides Level 3 with more than 300 LMDS and 39 GHz licenses covering 90% of the U.S. population. France Telecom is teaming with TPS to launch the first high definition IP TV service in the world....
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Fixed operator strategies - 29/04/06
Vonage is partnering with UK WiFi operator The Cloud to offer Internet-based mobile-phone calls. MTNL (India) is close to launch IPTV services in team with content aggregator Time Broadband Services. China Satcom and Shin Satellite have signed an agreement...
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Fixed operator strategies - 26/04/06
Boingo has signed roaming deals with SFR (France) and Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), adding some 300 hotspots in France and 900 hotspots in Taiwan to its roaming system. To date, the Boingo Roaming System consists of more than 30,000 hot spots around the...
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Fixed operator strategies - 22/04/06
French ISP Free is the first in France to offer a WiFi-GSM bundled service, after being the first to introduce triple-play services in the market. It targets the 40% mobile calls made from subscriber's home. Belgacom, Telenet, Mobistar, ALE& Brutele and...
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Fixed operator strategies - 21/04/06
Intelsat is launching a new satellite-based content-delivery and-management service for IPTV video service launched by telcos. The service is called “Ampiage”. France Telecom has lost 950k customers so far, with a 60% increase in number of defectors in...
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Fixed operator strategies - 15/04/06
Sprint Nextel announced plans to form a cable venture to market cable TV and mobile phone services. Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications are among the first participants in the venture. Time Warner could consider selling its AOL Europe ISP entity....
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Fixed operator strategies - 12/04/06
FT has 2m of Livebox users (triple play offer), and will continue to offer innovative services, such as High Quality VOIP, or VOIP unified messaging, answering to vocal messaging with SMS or e-mail, etc. iPass has signed a roaming deal with UK' s The...
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Fixed operator strategies - 05/04/06
Inukshuk Wireless (Bell Canada + Rogers Comms) will offer WiMAX service to 5m households in North America. Optus (Australia) is offering new DSL network offering to additional 2.9m households and businesses in the country. T-Mobile International and iPass...
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Fixed operator strategies - 01/04/06
Lycos is introducing a Windows-based program that provides free U.S. phone numbers for incoming calls, and free calls to phones if the user signs up for promotional offers, or pay 1 cent a minute for US calls when they exhaust their initial 100 free minutes....
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Fixed operator strategies - 28/9/05
Neuf Cegetel is interested in being granted several regional WiMAX licenses in France. PT Telkom (Indonesia) is to buy PT Bukaka Singtel International. FCC has allowed Verizon to use flexible pricing, while selling its “fast-packet” services. BT has launch...
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Operator results 24-01-05 N48
VSNL ( India ) posted sales of $ 197m (up 3%) and net profit of $ 33m (down 21%). MobileOne ( Singapore ) reported sales of $ 458m (+4%) and net profit of $ 95m, up 9%. Bahrain Telecom reports $218m net profits (up 36%) and about 532k mobile users (78%...
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Fixed operator strategies - 24/9/05
Qwest and Microsoft are teaming up on an Internet-based telephone and communications service for small- and mid-sized businesses. The product, expected to debut next year, will feature VOIP telephone service, e-mail, Internet access and other communications...
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Fixed operator strategies - 21/9/05
Tele2 acquisistion of Comunitel (Spain) has been cleared by Spanish anti-trust authorities. China Netcom and Telefonica strategic agreement will include coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games. Telefonica is finalizing an official bid for Colombia Telecomunicaciones....
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Mobile operator strategies -28/09/06
Vodafone and Celcom (Malaysia) have entered into an allinace, launching the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution in Malaysia, the Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G broadband service and enhanced roaming capabilities including a virtual home environment (VHE). Amena...
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Fixed operator strategies - 17/9/05
Teliasonera (Finland) will remove remaining public phone booths by May 06. Iberbanda (Spain) plans to launch commercial WiMAX services in Q4, after successful commercial pilots. Proximus (Belgium) is launching 3G services for the residential market. Comstar...
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Fixed operator strategies - 15/9/05
India and Sri Lanka will build a 30-km long submarine cable link between the two countries. BSNL and Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) will fund 50:50 the system. The commissioning date is scheduled for early in 2Q06. South Korea: following the SK Telecom and Hanaro...
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Fixed operator strategies - 10/9/05
NY3G Partnership, a Broadband Radio Services (BRS) spectrum licensee in New York City, will trial WiMAX in Manhattan in early 2006. Adaptix will provide its all-IP Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless mobile broadband access...
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Fixed operator strategies - 7/9/05
Illiad/ Free (France) is buying Altitude Telecom (France)for about €20m. Altitude gives it a company with the only nationwide WiMAX license, and an early experience in VOIP over broadband wireless. Interoute buys Via Net.Works, a pan-European hosting...
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Fixed operator strategies - 3/9/05
In Japan, TV broadcasters are turning to video-on-demand services over the Web in order to compete with companies offering IPTV. BT will reorganize its global workforce around vertical market segments, leveraging its industrial expertise to better service...
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Fixed operator strategies - 2/9/05
DT (Germany) will deploy a new high-speed optical fiber network in Germany over the next few years, in a € 3bn effort. Telecom Colombia and Telmex (Mexico) were planning a deal giving Telmex the control od Telecom operations. Colombian Controller General,...
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Mobile operator strategies - 24/09/06
Mcel (Mozambique) has received a UMTS 3G licence, the first in the country. VTR (Chile) could enter the MVNO market in the country. Panasonic could re-use Connexion by Boeing's general approach in order to allow airlines that have already deployed Connexion...
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Mobile operator strategies - 08/07/07
Several European operators are struggling to be the iPhone operator in Europe. iPhone would be introduced in Europe in October in UK, France and Germany. T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica O2 are the most likely contenders. BSNL (India) is trying...
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Fixed operator strategies - 31/8/05
Teliasonera (Sandinavia) is buying Chess/Sense, number 3 in the Norwegian market, for € 203m. Telefonica de Argentina has announced that it will launch VoIP for residential customers in 2006. Taiwan is eying issuing WiMAX licenses, but is planning to...