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Mobile operator strategies - 19/09/06
Telkomsel (Indonesia) starts offering 3G services using some 300 base stations. Vodafone will offer from 2008 femto cells for sale in New Zealand. A base station will cost $385m. It reports more than 10m subscribers in Europe for its Passport roaming...
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Fixed operator strategies 26/8/05
FT (France) bought Amena (Spain), number 3 in mobile communications in Spain. FT took over Amena for € 8.8bn (including debt) and get 80% stake. ONO (Spain) has agreed to buy Auna Group's cable and fixed telecoms assets, Auna Telecom, for €2.25bn. Auna...
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Fixed operator strategies - 14/7/5
Meridian (Philippines) is investing to establish a nationwide broadband wireless access infrastructure. Smart bought 40% of Meridian last year. Medi Telecom (Morocco) was granted a fixed-line telephony license for less than $8.5m. Medi Telecom is own...
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Fixed operator strategies - 07/09/07
Free/ Iliad (France) launches very high speed access in two districts of Paris. Customers will be connected at 100 Mbit/s with a fiber optic FTTH triple play access for a cost of €30 a month. MTNL (India) has begun selling VOIP services. India has successfully...
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Mobile operator strategies - 16/09/06
Vimpelcom plans to invest $150m in Unitel' s network development in Uzbekistan. Telkomsel and Excelcomindo are expected to start commercial operation of 3G service this month. CPP (calling party pays) is delayed in Mexico after an action of fout major...
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Fixed operator strategies - 01/09/07
Google' s Gmail is now being offered as a push e-mail service China Telecom plans deploying fiber to the home (FTTH) around the country in three years including the rural market. Hawe plans to build a 4,000 km-long, $64m, fiber optic system across Poland...
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Fixed operator strategies - 18/08/09
Telecom Egypt considers pulling out of fixed line market in Algeria. Sprint Nextel unveiled details on its future WiMAX network. The service will be branded Xohm. It will spend $5bn building the network by 2010, and expects there will be 50m devices for...
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Mobile operator strategies - 04/07/07
Uganda Telecom plans to spend $50m for expanding its network in Uganda. Verizon Wireless announced it has upgraded its entire CDMA network to enhanced Revision A technology. Chile plans to open bidding for 3G and WiMAX in early 2008. MTS (Russia) has...
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Fixed operator strategies - 28/08/07
Telkom (South Africa) plans to invest up to $1bn in Nigeria' s fixed Wireless service provider, Multi-Links Limited. KPN is buying Belgian Tele2/ Versatel operations for €95m. Neuf Cegetel (France) will offer unlimited music downloads from Universal for...
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Fixed operator strategies - 16/07/07
Bouygues Telecom (a French mobile operator) is starting its fixed broadband ADSL offer and could offer fixed-mobile convergence services in early 2008. Telekom Austria spun off its fixed-line business and implements a new organization. ATT has deployed...
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Fixed operator strategies - 08/07/07
Jordan Telecom has introduced its fixed-line services under the Orange trademark. SingTel and Optus will lead a group of companies (called G9) in a bid to build a high-speed broadband network in Australia. Bangladesh's Grameenphone has completed the deployment...
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Fixed operator strategies - 29/06/07
Australia has assured all Australians that they would be able to access broadband in the near future. The Australian Broadband Guarantee would make sure that either the residents of Australia would get broadband services (99% of the population) or would...
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Fixed operator strategies - 12/06/07
Synterra (CIS) will invest some $80m in building fibre-optic networks this year. BT is UK' s first VOIP provider. It succeeded in bundling VOIP services with its broadband service. BT has 1.4m VOIP customers, more than triple of rival Orange. AIG Global...
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Fixed operator strategies - 10/06/07
FT changes its fiber strategy. After claiming that very high speed networks will not be its target in the next five years, FT announced it will invest up to €4.5bn to deploy its new fiber optic network across France to reach 4m customers by the end of...
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Fixed operator strategies - 06/06/07
VSNL (India) will provide WiMAX in five Indian cities by April next year. Telstra, with G9 consortium (led by Optus) on its heels, plans to start its high-speed broadband network worth $4bn and to charge other telecom companies for using its new network....
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Fixed operator strategies - 02/06/07
Optus (Australia) took the helm of a G9 consortium to build a fiber optic high-speed network in Australia, and informs ACCC (anti competition agency) of their plans. Telstra has a similar approach, but was not allowed to go ahead without opening the new...
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Fixed operator strategies - 30/05/07
Despite protest, DT said it will move forward with a plan to set up three new service units (inside its T-Services initiative) as it moves to pare costs. Chile : a rural WiMAX project will be launched in the southern island of Chiloe. Hong Kong will deploy...
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Fixed operator strategies - 25/05/07
Japan: J.Com (Jupiter Telecom) will merge with Jupiter TV after the deal between Sumitomo and Liberty Global. Colombus Networks is close to complete (in June) a new undersea fiber cable, which would connect Colombia to Florida. The new system will be...
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Mobile operator strategies - 29/06/07
In France, mobile number portability is a success with over 110,000 numbers were switching operators while retaining their phone number in one month. 3 UK plans to launch BREW handsets to offer highly-integrated, feature-rich applications. Telekom Malaysia...
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Fixed operator strategies - 23/05/07
Vietnam plans launching a Vinasat satellite early in 2008. The selection of the launcher will be made in Nov.07. Shortfall: Bahrain' s Batelco found problems when it tried a NGN network upgrade. The network went down in parts of the capital city, Manama....
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Fixed operator strategies - 20/05/07
Direct TV (USA) plans to enter the broadband over powerline (BPL) access market, so in competition with one of its main customer ATT. Shortfall: NTT East reports a massive Internet breakdown, due to suspected equipment failure, affecting about 2.9m users...
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Fixed operator strategies - 12/05/07
Neuf Cegetel (France) has officially bought DT' s French unit Club-Internet for about €450m, and gained some 570k ADSL users. Free-hotspot.com and Teleprofi are partnering for building some 2000 new free hotspots in Germany by the end of 2007. Teleprofi...
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Fixed operator strategies - 09/05/07
Telmex has received approval to laubch its triple-play services in Mexico from 1Q08. Vodafone and Orange are likely bidding for Ya.com, the Spanish DT unit. Ya.com is the fourth Spanish ISP with about 400k customers. According to NZ Telecom, $1.5bn investment...
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Fixed operator strategies - 05/05/07
Telstra continues facing political opposition to its project of new national broadband fiber-optic network. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) already condamned the project; now the government and the Labor party said they will...
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Fixed operator strategies - 03/05/07
CANTV (Venezuela) plans to install 1.2m landlines in next 18 months to cover about 60% of households. Portugal Telecom CEO said multimedia unit spinoff should happen in 4Q07. 17 operators have signed a deal to build a 20,000-km long trans-Pacific submarine...