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Fixed contracts - 18/01/07
Samsung has secured a deal with Time Warner to provide its open cable application platform to expand Time Warner’s existing digital TV services system. UTStarcom has received an order for 300,000 new PHS handsets ( Q-Box) from China Telecom. Navini will...
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Global operator strategies - 02/03/2006
Vodafone expects to file a $48bn charge to its assets related to the value of goodwill in Vodafone Germany (when it bought Mannesman in 2000), Vodafone Italy and Vodafone Japan. KT (S. Korea) has announced $3.1bn CAPEX guidance for 2006, 33% of it would...
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Fixed contracts - 06/01/07
Dasan Networks will provide FTTH EPON system to KT (S.Korea). Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, Tyco and Fujitsu are shortlisted by Flag Telecom for its $1.5bn undersea cable project. Tekelec will provide its EAGLE 5 platform to Pelephone (Israel) for number portability....
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Global operator strategies - 23/02/06
France Telecom revamps its "Video à la carte” service into the new "24/24 vidéo" service; it is the new name of FT' s VOD services. A single platform will be used for the service, be it on fixed broadband with Wanadoo, or mobile with Orange. The service...
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Global operator strategies - 9/02/06
Telstra would split into three units, including wholesale, retail and key network services, prior to its sale. Google and eBay have invested into Spanish WiFi startup FON. Eircom (Ireland) is to be acquired in a $3bn deal by an Australian investment bank...
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Fixed contracts - 16/12/06
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Hawaiian Telcom for delivering triple play service delivery architecture and IP network transformation. Cisco will provide Free (Iliad Group in France) with an Ethernet fibre-to-the-home (E-FTTH) network in France to...
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Fixed contracts - 06/12/06
Siemens/ ADVA have jointly been awarded a $13m order to upgrade Eircom (Ireland) FTTC network. Nortel has garnered a WiMAX contract to deploy the technology with Chungwa Telecom in Taiwan. Nortel will provide 802.16e-2005Wave 2 base stations with MIMO...
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Fixed orders - 02/12/06
Motorola will deploy and manage mesh Wi-Fi network infrastructure (MOTOwi4 wireless broadband portfolio) and services in six UK cities for BT. Lucent and Juniper won TV Cabo (Portugal) order to upgrade its HFC network to VOIP over cable. Cisco provides...
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Fixed orders - 29/11/06
Ciena has been contracted for providing a high-capacity test-bed network (the Boston South Network or BoSSNET) for MIT/ U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Ciena will upgrade BoSSNET to 40 Gbit/s in a first step. Calient (US) has been rewarded a contract...
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Fixed contracts - 22/11/06
Redline will deploy the first WiMAX network in Iraq for IRAQTEL. Nortel will provide a nationwide optical backbone for ITPC (Iraq), under a contract worth $20m. Harmonic has garnered a contract from TV Cabo, a subsidiary of PT Multimedia, Portugal, for...
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Global operator strategies - 28//06
Svyazinvest (Russia) wants to sell 23.3% stake in MGTS (Russia). Maxis (Malaysia) would be interested in Spice Telecom (India). DoCoMo could be interested investing in Philippine Long Distance Telephone (Philippines). China Mobile is nearing closing the...
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Fixed contracts - 15/11/06
Nortel is delivering enhanced optical network for NTL-Telewest in the UK to deliver triple play services to end-users. It provided Sonofon (Denmark) with a Metro Ethernet Networking wireless backhaul solution. ZTE is delivering high resolution video and...
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Global operator strategies - 25/1/06
In contrast with most carriers' strategy, Sprint Nextel is planning to spin off its wireline business, New Local Company. It will rename the wireline company in the first quarter of 2006 and spin off the subsidiary in the second quarter. The new company...
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Global operaor strategies - 19/01/06
Uganda (Africa) should fully liberalize the telecom sector by 2010. France currently has about 2,8m unbundled lines (+74%) of which 2,2m are partially unbundled. But ARCEP (the French regulator) found that deregulation only touches 54% of the French population....
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Fixed contracts - 11/11/06
RAD Data will provide Ethernet over SDH for Bezeq Int. (an ISP) and Ico (long-distance telecom company) in Israel. Huawei was selected as the lead contractor for building a $30m rural telephone network in Ghana. ZTE will provide telephone equipment to...
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Fixed contracts - 04/11/06
RAD Data (Israel) has been selected by Bezek to provide Ethernet over SDH Service CPEs. ZTE will build NGN gateway for Multiregional Transit Telecom (MTT) in Russia. Juniper and Siemens have delivered Networks SDX service deployment system and E-series...
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Fixed orders - 02/11/06
Huawei has inked a NGN network contract with CANTV in Venezuela worth $50m. Huawei will provide softswitches, media gateways, and multi-service access nodes. Proxim Wireless will supply WiMAX gear (both mesh and backhaul products) to China Netcom Gentsu....
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Global operator strategies - 14/1/06
BT, Vodafone, O2 and DoCoMo have expressed interest in investing in the Thai telecom market. AOL buys video search startup Truveo, The European regulator has cleared a €28bn deal by Telefonica to buy O2 (mobile operator in the UK) under some conditions....
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Fixed orders - 24/10/06
ZTE has been awarded an ultra long haul DWDM backbone transmission network contract by GTS Central Europe. It will supply a fibre-optic network across Venezuela and broadband infrastructure to Venezuela's CVG Telecom. Siemens is providing several SURPASS...
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Fixed orders - 19/10/06
Lucent is supplying Sth Korea' s SKT with optical networking systems for building out the wireless operator's intelligent backbone networks. Xtera has been selected by Global Crossing to provide its Nu-Wave XLS DWDM system on two unrepeatered submarine...
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Fixed orders - 13/10/06
Alcatel announced turnkey triple play win (€ 80m) with Wind in Italy. It reports also a huge deal ($1.7bn for Alcatel) with ATT to equip 19m households in the US by 2008 with the U-Verse project. A third big contract is signed with Telefonica for updating...
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Fixed orders - 07/10/06
NDS is supplying Rom Telecom (Romania) with a new direct-to-home (DTH) platform. Thomson is providing BT with Home Hub Wireless DSL Residential Gateway. Nortel has received an order from Embratel (Brazil) for upgrading its fixed CDMA2000 1x network. Lucent...
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Global operator strategies - 12/01/06
Google has unveiled its new Google Video Store, a video downloading service, with content from CBS, Sony BMG, Getty Images or NBA. The service is not free and will be billed 30% on top of content providers prices. Similarly, Yahoo is launching Go TV service,...
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Global operator strategies - 7/1/06
Google will offer video downloads from major content partners through its Google site. Microsoft demonstrated at CES (Las Vegas) key new products: its future Windows Vista OS,its Xbox 360 game console and its Windows Mobile operating software for cell...
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Fixed orders - 29/12/05
Ericsson and Cisco will deliver an IP-based network to Telesur in Latin America. Nokia is supplying Telecom Cook Islands in the Pacific with broadband DSL solutions and related services. ZTE will lay down fiber optic network of 9,000 km in Venezuela for...