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mobile operators strategies N58
Teliasonera ( Sweden ) could gain control of Turkcell ( Turkey ) for $3.1 bn. Orange / FT is trialing UMTS TDD technology from IPWireless. China said to be ready to launch 3G TD-SCDMA commercial networks. Technical tests have been successfully passed,...
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Operator results N52
TeliaSonera ( Sweden ) reported 2004 results: 9.12bn in sales (flat); 2.1bn (up 43%) in operating income; 1.44bn in net profit (vs. loss); 3.36bn in EBITDA (flat) and 1.15bn in CAPEX (+15%). Tiscali ( Italy ) posted 4Q04 EBITDA of 33.4m, up 21% and revenue...
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Mobile operator strategy N57
Tele2 ( Sweden ) has launch the first worldwide free mobile TV service, called TV channel Tango.TV (TTV). The service is available on 3G mobile handsets. Telenor launches commercial mobile service in Pakistan , one year after being awarded the license....
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Mobile operator strategy N56
Verizon bought 23 wireless licenses and operating assets for $102m in cash from Leap Wireless International. Cingular is promoting towards businesses unlimited cellular usage (on its EDGE network) at $80 per month + additional $20 per mont h for unlimited...
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Mobile operator strategy N55
SFR , second French mobile operator, has a true MVNO strategy. After Debitel and Future Telecom, SFR has signed two new deals with respectively Cegetel, a sister company in the Vivendi Universal group, and Neuf Telecom, a French CAP company. Most of the...
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Mobile operator strategy N54
Norway s Netcom has launched its 3G service, starting with plug-in card for PCs and data service. Voice service would be open during the summer. 3 , from Austria , explained what its customers want: fun and entertainment, latest information, and modern...
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Mobile operators strategies N50
Future Telecom (France & USA) is launching a wireless offer (as a MVNO) over the SFR/ Cegetel network in France. StarHub will launch DoCoMo's i-mode service exclusively in Singapore. Launch is scheduled in 4Q05, making I-mode available in 22countries....
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Operator mobile networks N49
VIPnet ( Croatia ) has launched the first commercial 3G service in the region, after launching an EDGE service last year. Tele2 is in talks to buy majority stake in ONE, an Austria mobile operator. China Tietong ( China ) is deploying local networks using...
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Operator: mobile networks 17-01-05 N47
FarEasTone Telecommunications and Chunghwa Telecom operators will launch 3G services in mid 2005. Vodafone will broadcast 90 mn TV film on 3G portal in Germany . Trinidad and Tobago 's TSTT plans a $ 500m GSM network expansion to improve coverage and...
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Operator mobile networks 10-01-05 N46
Bellsouth is offering new bundled promotion with wireless. Up to $ 125 cash is backed to residential customers subscribing to its FastAccess DSL, DirectTV, Unlimited long distance and Cingular Wireless bundles. Turkcell has opened a push-to-talk service,...
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Fixed operator strategies - 28/09/06
China Telecom is now teaming with Microsoft to launch search services in China from October. In August, China Telecom had called off its partnership with Yahoo in search services. MTV Networks plans to buy Harmonix Systems, a music themed video games...
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Fixed operator strategies - 24/09/06
Morocco is expected to report a 30% CAGR between 2006-2010 in its internet market. While the country currently has only a 1.1% internet penetration, ADSL growth was 97% in the second quarter. CNTV , the Colombian television regulator has approved the...
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Fixed orders - 15/11/05
Alcatel and Telstra have signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which they will negotiate formal agreements as part of a strategic agreement, worth about €2,2bn over five years, concerning the operator' s ground breaking IP network transformation...
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Fixed orders - 13/11/05
Alcatel announced that MCI is deploying its next-generation signaling server to migrate the carrier's domestic and international SS7 signaling traffic to a packet-based solution. Nortel will deliver advanced broadband services and applications to Northern...
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Fixed orders - 9/11/05
Juniper is deploying its E-series broadband routers in PCCW' s network to allow video-on-demand services and broadband TV offering. ADVA announced the deployment of a 10-Gbit/s Ethernet network for cable operator ZTV of Japan. Nortel is supplying its...
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Fixed vendor orders - 5/11/05
Huawei, through its US subsidiary FutureWei, has deployed its FutureWei BWS1600A Multi-Reach DWDM (MR-DWDM) platform in the CTC Communications network (US). Lucent and Juniper have upgraded Mexican MCM Telecom's multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) backbone...
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Fixed orders - 3/11/05
Huawei and Alcatel have received a big NGN order from China Netcom to supply next- generation network (NGN) equipment, Ericsson is providing softswitching and Cisco is supplying its routers to Telecom Egypt for converting its existing fixed line infrastructure...
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Fixed orders - 27/10/05
ECI Telecom has received an order from Intelsat for its XDM Multi-Service Transport Platform (MSTP). It has also received an order from BayanTel (Philippines) to provide infrastructure for VOIP and IPTV services. Motorola has deployed next generation...
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Fixed orders - 23/10/05
Siemens will deliver fiber-optic transmission technology for a 1,140-kilometer fiber-optic network in Kenya for Kenya Data Networks (KDN). Redback won an order from Completel, an alternative business carrier in France, for deploying its SmartEdge Service...
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Fixed orders - 20/10/05
Alcatel has won a contract to supply communications network to Chinese oil producer Karamay. Motorola announced that it received a multi-year contract from General Motors to provide its next-generation Telematics Control Unit (TCU). Nortel will deploy...
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Fixed orders - 19/10/05
Cingular has awarded Lucent a four-year agreement to provide a comprehensive IMS-based (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution. Huawei is providing Nigerian operator Suburban Telecom with equipment and related services for building its optical fiber network....
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Fixed orders - 1/10/05
Amdocs has received a contract from Vodafone Hungary for a billing system. Alcatel Alenia Space will supply Israel Aircraft Industries a payload for the Amos-3 communications satellite. ZTE is supplying Euroweb International with SDH equipment for its...
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Fixed orders 1 - 18/06/05
Alcatel and Astrium (EADS) won a 200m order to build a satellite platform for the European Space Agency. ZTE has clinched a contract with Norwegian telecom carrier NMAB to build up the first China's domestic standard digital trunk telecom network, GoTa....
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Fixed orders 2 - 11 June 2005
Lucent will supply Fonix (USA) with hardware, software and services for VoIP infrastructure. It will expand and upgrade Choice One (USA) voice and web-based messaging services, will build a nationwide optical Sonet network for Dreamline in Korea, expand...
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Fixed vendor orders (1) - 5 June 2005
Lucent has won two new contracts for delivering optical equipment to Zhongshan Telecom and Zhuhai Telecom, two local branch companies of Guangdong Telecom. Thomson will supply STBs (set top box) to UGC. ZTE will provide more than 1m ADSL lines to China...