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Mobile operator strategies - 29/06/05
Verizon Wireless continues to expand the availability of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO in the US. It now can reach 100m pops and is available in 33 of the nation's top 50 markets. Nigeria : a new GSM operator, Jigawa Public Hand System (PHS), has started operations....
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Mobile operator strategies - 25/06/05
Sprint may sign deal with the National Football League (NFL) to gain exclusive rights to video and audio highlights of games and broadcast them over wireless phones. SFR (France) accepts a new MVNO on its network. Coriolis will debut operations before...
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Mobile operator strategies - 21/06/2005
3 HK (HK) will launch the first bilateral International Multimedia Messaging Service (IMMS) with NTT DoCoMo . The service will enable its 3G and 2G customers to exchange multimedia messages with NTT DoCoMo's i-mode customers. MTS ( Russia ) is rising...
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Mobile oprator strategies - 18/06/05
Tele2 France , a MVNO using Orange mobile network, ambitiously targets to become number 3 in France. It positions itself in the low-cost segment with first packages starting at 10 per month for 30mn, and 22 for 2hours without the handset, or respectively...
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Mobile operator strategies - 16 June 2005
PCCW (HK) will buy mobile telecom firm Sunday Communications (HK) for about $200 m. Telekom Malaysia continues planning a sole bid (worth $390m) in India 's Idea Cellular (after its association with SingTel Telemedia failed to gain a 47šstake in the company...
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Operator results N55
China Mobile reports net profit is rising 18% to $5.1bn boosted by acquisitions and subscriber growth. Revenues were $ 23.2bn, up 21%, and EBITDA was $12.9bn, up 16%. Its ARPU continues to fall to $11.1 vs. $12 a year earlier. CMHK had 204m subscribers...
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Mobile operator strategies
Vodacom (S. Africa) and UK Virgin Mobile are jointly bidding for a controlling stake in Vmobile, Nigeria's No.3 mobile phone company. Portugal Telecom mobile unit, TMN, enters the second phase of deploying 3G network. It targets 1m users by the end of...
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Mobile operator strategies - 8 June 2005
Vodacom (S. Africa) and UK Virgin Mobile are jointly bidding for a controlling stake in Vmobile, Nigeria's No.3 mobile phone company. Portugal Telecom mobile unit, TMN, enters the second phase of deploying 3G network. It targets 1m users by the end of...
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Mobile operator strategies (2) - 5 June 2005
Bouygues (France) will launch HSDPA in 2006/ 2007 in complement of its current EDGE deployment (France coverage to be 85% by year-end) . Orange (France) is rolling out an EDGE network to cover up to 85% of the French population and 90% of businesses....
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Mobile operator strategies - 10/08/07
PCCW (HK) rolls out its multi-function SIM card-only services. Portugal will auction new GSM mobile license in December. In spite of China Mobile denies, Terra Firma Capital Partners has initiated a $4.8bn bid for EMI on behalf of China Mobile. Verizon...
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Mobile operator strategies- 5 June 2005
T-Mobile USA is number 4 in the US market with 18.3m mobile subscribers, facing heavyweights such as Verizon (43m), Cingular (50m) and Sprint Nextel (40m). So it has little choice but to position itself as a low-priced leader. In spite of its size disadvantage,...
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Mobile orders - 28 May 2005
Nortel will provide a trial HSDPA solution to Partner (Israel). Marconi is deploying its OMS1664 multiservice optical platform in Germany's E-Plus mobile network. Alcatel has signed a partnership with TMN (Portugal) to deliver a games content provisioning...
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Operator results - N54
Telefonica reported full-year net income of 2.9bn (+31%) and revenues of 30.3bn (+6.8%). Free cash flow was 9.4bn, up 6.4%. 2004 Capex was 3.77bn. EBITDA rose 5% to 13.2bn, and operating profit grew 14.3% to 7.2bn. Net debt stood at about 21bn. Telefonica...
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Mobile operator strategies - 28 May 2005
Orange UK has been ranked the best network for customer satisfaction amongst U.K. Mobile operators. It will launch Orange TV over its 3G network to enable the mobile users to view TV on their handsets. Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has launched mobile services...
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Mobile operator strategies - 25 May 2005
Verizon increased MMS interoperability capabilities with Leap Wireless (after Cingular and US Cellular). DoCoMo would increase its stake in Taiwan's FarEasTone to 15% (from 5%). CTI Movil (Argentina) would invest $251m to expand national coverage and...
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Mobile operator strategies - 21st May 2005
Smarts (Indonesia) should be in talks to buy Digitel's Sun Cellular in Philippines. But PLDT and Digitel denied any discussion on this subject. Orange UK will offer mobile TV service including nine channels of news, sports and entertainment on its 3G...
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Mobile operator strategies 05-18-05
Maxis (Malaysia) would invest $53m in expanding network coverage and providing GPRS within two next years. NTTCom (NTT fixed line arm) plans to start offering an IP (Internet Protocol) telephone service for cellular phones this month to corporate customers...
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Mobile operator strategies - 05-14-05
Cingular will offer its business subscribers EDGE-enabled laptops from Sony. O2 and NTL (both in the UK) will trial Mobile TV very soon. O2, however, made the comment it will not open the commercial service until 2008. RealNetworks is moving into mobile...
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Mobile operator strategies 05-12-05
Hutchison Telecom ( Hong Kong ) plans to sell its mobile telecom operations in Paraguay to Mexico 's America Movil. Netia Mobile ( Poland ) won a 3Glicense in Poland at the expense of Hutchison Telecom. America Movil is planning to take part in the auction...
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Operator results N53
Telefonica Moviles reported 4Q04 net income of 277m, down 21%, an operating profit of 666m, down 11%, and an EBITDA of 1.17bn, up 7%. 4Q04 revenues rose 30% to 3.6bn. TEM ended 2004 with some 78.2m subscribers, of which 56.5m are in Latam. Telesp ( Brazil...
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Mobile operator strategies (2)
TIM was rebuffed by the Venezuelan regulator, Conatel, in its attempt to sale Digitel to CANTV, but continues in its strategy to dispose of Venezuelan asset. TI has made a bid for the privatization of 55% of Turk Telekom, but if the deal fails, TIM would...
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Mobile operator strategies (1)
SK Telecom (St. Korea) begins marketing its WCDMA 3G offering. It will offer handset subsidies, roaming with its core CDMA network, and with international operators in Japan (co-operation with NTT DoCoMo), and with six other Asian and European countries...
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Mobile operator strategy 2 - N60
TComm UK should launch its TELLYfoneSM mobile TV service. TNZ ( New Zealand ) is launching video clips service. S-Fone ( Vietnam ) plans to invest an additional $35m to increase its service network to cover the whole of Vietnam by the end of this year....
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Mobile operator strategy N60
MobilPro ( US ) is a new US MVNO using Verizon s network. Tele2 (in France ) finally signed a MVNO agreement with Orange (after months talking), and will launch service by the end of the year. 6 Korean mobile TV broadcasters will provide free services...
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Mobile operators strategies N59
Telkomsel , Indonesia, should invest $700m in 3G network deployment and in its subscriber base. AOL will distribute mobile voice services in partnership with SFR in France. Sprint PCS targets cable carriers for MVNO. It has signed deals with Time Warner...