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Vendor results - 03/02/07
Nokia said its Russian sales were €1.5bn, up 8%, in 2006. Nokia holds a 25.5% market share in Russia. Juniper Networks reports 4Q06 revenues of $596m, slightly above expectations, and up 4%, while full year revenues were $2.3bn, up 12%. Harris Stratex...
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Global operator strategies - 17/9/05
Time Warner could be in talks to sell a stake in its America Online Internet unit to Microsoft, with the launch of a JV between AOL Online and Microsoft. Centrica (UK energy retailer)could sell stake in OneTel, a UK fixed-line telephony, Internet and...
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Vendor results - 23/10/05
LG posts a 48% drop in 3Q05 net earnings to $149m and 1.5% fall in sales. Its handset division continues to do well with the shipment of 15.5m units (of which 8.8 CDMA handsets and 1.1 WCDMA phones). Redback posted 3Q05 sales of $36.4m, up 73%, fueled...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 27/10/05
Motorola announced its first VOIP open application-enabling platforms. Nokia unveiled a new WCDMA base station, the Nokia Flexi WCDMA Base Station. Samsung announced it has gained 200k mobile TV users, in South Korea since the launch in May 05, on its...
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Mobile orders - 03/09/06
Lucent is to deploy CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network for Sky Link in Krasnodar. Siemens will design and implement Polkomtel' s 2G and 3G networks. It will also provide network upgrades for Tele2 Sweden 2G and 3G core networks. Siemens will also provide a mobile...
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Fixed orders - 10/07/05
UTStarcom has helped Japan s largest broadband provider, Softbank BB, building its new IPTV offering. UTStarcom is providing all all pieces of the IPTV distribution chain from the headend encoders to the video servers to the set-top boxes, as well as...
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Mobile orders - 23/10/05
Alcatel will provide a mobile NGN infrastructure for Zhejiang MCC, a China Mobile unit, in China. Siemens grabs a € 70m contract from Indonesia Telkomsel for network expansion. Lucent will deploy HSDPA solution for O2 in the Isle of Man. Motorola won...
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Mobile contracts - 22/11/06
Oi (mobile unit of Telemar, Brazil) has selected Telcordia to provide its converged application server for developing voice and data services. Alcatel wins Cingular order to provide its multiservice transport solution in its HSDPA network. Motorola and...
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Mobile orders - 01/04/06
Nortel wins managed contact center deal from Bharti Tele-Ventures. It has deployed HSDPA technology for Partners (Israel) Spirent has won a China Mobile order for testing its 3G core network performance. Huawei will expand Telemar/ Oi (Brazil) GSM network,...
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Vendor results - 14/7/5
Alcatel pre-announced better than expected 2Q05 results. Revenues should be up 8% to €3.1bn, the operating margin returned in the 8% -9% range, and net profit should be around €170m. Tandberg reports 2Q05 results of: revenues of $88m (+23%), operating...
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Mobile contracts - 09/12/06
Ericsson has been selected by Cyprus' Cyta for providing its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. It will provide Chile' s Entel PCS to migrate its mobile network to an all-IP network that will support voice, data and 3G services. Motorola has received...
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Fixed orders - 02/06/06
Alcatel won a €53m telecom, signaling and security systems order from the Spanish Transport Ministry for the Malaga-Segovia railways line. Calient Networks has signed a multi-year supply agreement with National LambdaRail (NLR) for deploying its DiamondWave...
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Fixed orders - 26/11/05
ZTE will supply China Telecom with an IPTV infrastructure for a Jiangsu-province trial involving up to 100,000 subscribers. It is the second similar deal with China Telecom after the Shannxi province contract. Tandberg TV will supply HK' s PCCW with HD...
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Mobile contracts - 04/11/06
Nokia has signed a €180m contract with Vodafone Australia for engineering and maintenance services over seven years. It also signed a GPRS contract with China Mobile Guandong. It has received an order for service delivery platform and managed services...
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Global vendor strategies - 30/05/06
Huawei has appointed Etisalat Academy, a division of the Etisalat operator, as its regional training partner in Middle East. IBM has introduced two new open source software products: IBM Tivoli CCMD (Change and Configuration Management Database) for IT...
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Global vendor strategies - 24/06/06
Alcatel and Lucent have filed for European antitrust approval. The commission is scheduled to rule July 24 on the deal. Siemens, Nortel and Avaya are said in talks about a potential three-way enterprise communications equipment joint venture, to create...
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Fixed contracts - 23/02/06
Samsung will supply triple play infrastructure WiMAX and ADSL 2+ equipment to Croatian fixed telephony operator H1. Motorola is deploying its MOTOwi4 Canopy solution to help Philippine' s SMART launch a wireless DSL network . Alcatel won a €25m communications-based...
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Global vendor strategies - 25/08/06
IBM continues its buying strategy (fourth acquisition in one month) . Now it is the turn of ISS (Internet Security) bought for $1.4bn. Harmonic will boost its position in the IPTV and VOD markets through the acquisition of the video-networking-software...
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Fixed orders - 16/09/06
ZTE, Huawei and China International Telecommunication Construction Corporation (CITCC) won the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) contract worth some $2.4bn to upgrade and expand its fixed (fiber optic, lines and broadband) and mobile networks....
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Global vendor strategies - 16/09/06
Business Object bought software editor Armstrong Laing (UK) for €44m, but could be a likely pray for IBM or Oracle. IBM is entering the automotive market. It has signed a contract with Magna Electronics to jointly develop electronics and software for...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 28/03/07
ALU unveils the world’s first CMOS silicon-based tunable optical equalizer, opening the door to new optical networking architectures. Siemens has decided to use mobile WiMAX Wave chips from Sequans. NEC America has officially launched its Mobile WiMAX...
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Fixed orders - 20/06/06
ADVA has been selected by FASTWEB (Italy) to deploy its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 2000 and FSP 3000 for triple-play services. Alcatel has received a microwave order from Time Warner to facilitate the deployment of premium triple play services in Southwest...
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Fixed vendor orders
Alcatel announced it received a $20m order from Telecom (Kosovo) to modernize and expand the fixed-line network infrastructure in the province. It also finalized the deployment of the Sea-Me-We 4 and Med Cable submarine networks. Hubei Telecom, which...
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Malaysia ICT strategy - 28 May 2005
Malaysia has chosen the South Korean model for its ICT future development. The road should be long to duplicate the success of the model, as Malaysia only has a mobile penetration of 55%, an internet penetration of 10% and a broadband access penetration...
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France Telecom' s results
France Telecom' s results: FT posts 3Q05 revenues of €12.2bn, up 3.8%, of which €5.6bn (flat) in fixed-line unit. FT cuts its target of yearly sales growth to 3% instead of 3-5%. EBITDA rose 2% to € 4.9bn, but FT did not provide net income figures. The...