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Market Corner - 07/10/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to Dell'Oro, the top 3 in the CDMA market includes ALU as a leader with 40% market share (down about 18%, but in line with recent concerns in its wireless unit), followed by Nortel at 33% (up...
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Subscriber Stats - 07/10/08
Pakistan reports the lowest growth rate in eight years at less than 7% in 2Q08, but annually the growth rate is still over 39%. The subscriber base stood at over 88m mobile subscribers at the end of June. Mobilink owns 36.4% of the market, followed by...
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Vendor Corner - 07/10/08
ALU approved six mobile WiMAX devices including MIMO technology and completing the highest level of interoperability testing. The products are from Siemens, ZyXel, Quanta and Accton. It also said it has deployed 30 WiMAX commercial networks and shipped...
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Awards - 07/10/08
Ericsson will deploy GSM/EDGE network in Panama for Digicel, and will provide cellular broadband modules to LG. . Brilliant Telecom is providing an end-to-end IEEE 1588v2-based synchronization solution to Vodafone Portugal. Juniper Networks supplies its...
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Operator Corner (2) - 07/10/08
China Telecom has completed the purchase of China Unicom CDMA network. PLDT and 3 Italia have signed a MVNO deal for providing telecom services to Indonesian in Italy. DoCoMo will introduce RIM' s BlackBerry Bold in Japan. DTAC is delaying its 3G network...
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Financial Performance - 07/10/08
Analyst Corner: the US market crisis heavily hit the telecom sector with most companies showing their capitalization dropping in few hours. On the Black Monday, as an example, Apple shares lost 17% and RIM stock dropped 12%. Both were struggling to recover...
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Regulation Corner - 07/10/08
EU approved the DT-OTE deal. The EU Commission is targeting deploying high-speed broadband and next-generation networks (NGN's) in EU and supports Web 3.0, the future intelligent web. BTRC (Bangladesh regulator) will sell spectrum to the three mobile...
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People - 07/10/08
ATT is reorganizing its top management into four divisions. The goal is to make wireline and wireless services converge more tightly together, for both consumers and businesses. The Consumer markets unit (both mobility and wireline services) will be managed...
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Market Corner - 29/09/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, the world mobile infra market would evolve, following the market shift to new strong markets in China, India, MEA, Latam, APAC and Eastern Europe. The worldwide market breakdown...
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Subscriber stats - 29/09/08
China Mobile added 7.2m new mobile users in August to bring its total to 429m. China Telecom ended August with 214m landline users (- 690k lines), and 41.5m broadband subscribers. Mexico had over 73m mobile users at the end of June, ranking second to...
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Vendor Corner - 29/09/08
Sony Ericsson follows Nokia' strategy for services. It launched its music offering in response to Nokia' s “Comes with Music” service. Its own service is called “Play Now Plus”. Ericsson plans to establish an Innovation Center in sub-Saharan Africa. Brocade/...
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Awards - 29/09/08
NSN has provided a 3G/UMTS trial network to FE Coscom in Uzbekistan. It is the partner of KPN to upgrade the GSM-R network of ProRail, the Dutch railway infrastructure provider. It was chosen by Telekom Srbija (Serbia) for expanding its 2G and 3G networks....
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Operator Corner - 29/09/08
Vodafone will launch a DSL-based internet service in Spain from Oct 8. Teliasonera expands its presence in Asia with a second PoP in Singapore. Teliasonera has more than 100 PoP across Europe, USA and APAC. It also bought major stakes in Applifone in...
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Operator Corner (2) - 29/09/08
Iridium has agreed to be bought by an equity firm Greenhill & Co for $591m. Verizon has successfully tested near real-time circuit provisioning across its network with the trial of control plane technology and multi-supplier interoperability (Fujitsu,...
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Financial Performance - 29-09-08
The Analyst' s corner: RW. Baird has lowered its estimates on Nortel, predicting a loss for 2008. CSFB cut its estimates on Ericsson , Nokia and Qualcomm on tough market conditions, but raised its estimates on RIM, while RBC Capital raised its estimates...
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Regulation Corner - 29-09-08
The EU Parliament calls for a new independent telecom regulator group to boost competition across Europe. The EU Commission goes on: without reaction from the EU telecom industry to its call to cut roaming data services, it announced plans to cut the...
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Crisis main consequences?
The cold wind blowing from the States last week will surely bring a slowdown in spending on technology. The financial sector, mainly banks and investment firms, would cut their spending by as much as 10% in 2009, according to TowerGroup. But finance will...
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Top Story 1
Nortel announced that its revenues will fall by 2%-4% in 2008, due to lower carrier capex and a global economic downturn. It forecasts now 3Q08 revenues of $2.3bn, vs $2.7bn before. It is now reviewing its business in order to find ways to cut costs and...
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Market Corner - 22/09/08
A few set of market information released this week: Major U.S. carriers are said preparing Xmas season with launching high-end handset next month. comScore M:Metrics found that mobile searching is gaining in popularity and frequency of use in Western...
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Subscriber Stats - 22/09/08
Reliance (India) added 1.75m new wireless subscribers in August, bringing its total subscriber base to over 54m, of which some 8m are GSM. India added 6.3m new GSM subscribers in August to reach a total of 226m, of which Bharti Airtel accounts for 74.7m,...
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Vendor Corner - 22/09/08
Cisco introduced a new version of its mobile wireless router, the MWR2941. It bought presence and messaging applications specialist Jabber for an undisclosed sum. Genband is buying fixed-mobile-convergence (FMC) specialist NextPoint Networks. It also...
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Awards - 22/09/08
ALU got the order to deploy Azerbaijan’s first commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network for Delta Telecom. It has deployed its OmniPCX Enterprise platform and OmniTouch Contact Center Premium software in the NEC Group exhibition venue and Center...
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Operator Corner - Americas - 22/09/08
Americas: ATT cuts its push-to-talk service monthly cost by 50% to $5. T-Mobile USA is planning to launch the world's first mobile phone to be powered by Google' s Android software. It will expand its 3G coverage in the US to 27 major markets. Leap Wireless...
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Operator Corner: EMEA - 22/09/09
EMEA: Vodafone has received Qatar's second landline telecom license. The service would start in 2009. Vodafone Spain is claiming €670m from Telefonica for abusing its market position in Spain between 1995 and 1999. FT has revamped its strategy and now...
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Operator Corner : APAC - 22/09/08
APAC: Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has expanded its FTTB network to additional areas of the nation. DoCoMo is reportedly in talks to buy about 25% stake in Tata Teleservices for around $1.5bn. MobileOne (Singapore) will launch its free new mobile music and...