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DT 3Q06 results
DT announced 3Q06 results with net profit down 20% to €1.9bn, with revenues up 2.8% to €15.5bn, and EBITDA down 7% to €5.1bn. Bad results, in line with recent profit warning, were due to the loss of 500k landline connections in Germany for the second...
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BT 3Q06 results
BT reported 3Q06 revenues of €7.3bn, up 4%. New wave revenues increased 20% to €2.6bn and account now for 35% of total revenues. EBITDA rose 2% to €2.1bn. Capex rose 17% in the quarter to €1.2bn. For its FY1H period, BT reported sales of €14.6bn, up 3%,...
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Healthy CATV operators
According to In-Stat, Cable TV operators reach some 355m households worldwide (about half in two countries: 30% in China and 20% in the US). Household penetration is about 30% and is almost plateauing. Rising consumer demand for more TV content, and new...
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HSDPA rollout
According to GSA‘s new survey on HSDPA deployments in the world, there are 73 networks in 42 countries using HSDPA technology. This number has increased by more than 50% in the last three months (25 networks), and could reach 130 by the end of the year....
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Global unsatisfaction with avanced services
According to the Tickbox Sicap study, mobile subscribers are dissatisfied with advanced services. 54% of high-spend consumers (aged 16-34) have experienced problems with advanced mobile services, be it internet browsing, photo or video messaging. 25%...
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France telecom market
According to the local telecom regulator Arcep, the French telecom operators have generated €1.1bn in revenues from customers. Fixed and mobile telephony, combined with Internet accounted for 80% of the revenues or €7.9bn (+2.3%). VOIP has 4.8m subscribers...
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BSNL barred from awarding contracts
Following its disqualification on technical grounds in the bid for huge BSNL mobile contract, Motorola filed a case in the Delhi High Court. The Indian court temporarily stopped BSNL from awarding a large contract. But now, Motorola will have to answer...
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Japan: the mobile market is changing
It was feared by competitors such as DoCoMo and KDDI when Softbank bought Vodafone KK in Japan and got mobile licenses. Softbank is a specialist in aggressive pricing and market shaking (remember the broadband DSL market in Japan). In the mobile market,...
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WirelessHD Consortium
It is a new alliance of seven leading electronics makers (LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric/ Panasonic, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Sony, Toshiba, andSiBEAM, targeting to unwire HD TV sets from cable or satellite boxes, gaming consoles, DVD players, camcoders,...
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Verizon Communications 3Q06 results
Verizon Communications posted 3Q06 revenues of $23.2bn, up 26%, and 9-mo revenues of $68bn, up 25%. The operating income was respectively $3.9bn (+12%) and $ 11.1bn (+3%). Net income was $1.9bn in the quarter (+ 3%) and $ 5bn (-10%). Revenues were made...
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Verizon Wireless 3Q06 results
Verizon Wireless reported $9.9bn in 3Q06 revenues, up 18%, of which service revenues reached $8.5m (+16.5%). The operating income margin reached its highest level ever at 26.2% ($2.6bn), and EBITDA margin was 40.5%. ARPU grew almost 1% to $50.6. Customer...
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Hard time for TI in Italy
Vodafone Italy will launch a new service enabling customers to receive all calls made to the fixed number of their choice on up to two mobile phone while they are at home. The calling party will pay the normal landline rates, the call will be answered...
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VCs attracted by Mobile
VCs attracted by Mobile According to Rutberg & Co,almost 40% of venture capital funding in September was directed towards start-ups focused on mobile products and services. $313m was raised in the month, of which $153m were supplied to mobile content...
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Alcatel Lucent
Alcatel and Lucent have chosen their conjugal name: Alcatel Lucent. It is at no surprise but also at no innovation. We should have expected a more appealing brand. The wedding preparation is going on, but grey clouds gathered last week on the proposed...
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Metro Ethernet equipment market
Infonetics Research found that Metro Ethernet equipment sales should triple to $15bn in 2009, from $5bn in 2005. Ethernet would account for an increasing portion of metro capex in coming years. Carrier Ethernet switches and routers sales should double...
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Ericsson 3Q06 results
Ericsson posted 17% rise in 3Q06 net profit to $839m on revenues of $5.6bn, up 12%. Revenues in the mobile division rose 5% to $3.8bn, while sales at professional services jumped 31% to $1.1bn. Gross margin decreased 3.5 points sequentially and 7.6 points...
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Nokia 3Q06 results
Nokia reports strong quarterly results with 3Q06 revenues rising 20% to €10bn, of which € 6bn (+14%) in mobile phones, €1.8bn (+16%) in Networks and € 2.1bn (+45%) in multimedia. Operating profit declined 4% to €1.1bn, as well as net profit to €845m (down...
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3Q06 cellphone record shipments
With cellphone shipments in 3Q06 reaching 255m units, up 21% yoy and 8% qoq, according to IDC, one billion units shipped in 2006 becomes a strong possibility. According to Strategy Research, Nokia holds a market share of 34.5%, followed by Motorola with...
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Bellsouth 3Q06 results
Bellsouth reported 3Q06 consolidated earnings of $1bn, up 30% on revenues of $ 5.2bn, up 3%. Normalized earnings (including Cingular share) rose 26% to $1.2bn, on revenues of $9bn, up 5%. For the first nine months, Bellsouth reported normalized revenues...
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Motorola 3Q06 results
Motorola reports 3Q06 revenues of $10.6bn, up 17%, with net income of $968m, down 45%. Results fell short of guidance and analysts’ expectations, but are tempered by an EPS in line with targets and very good handset shipments in the quarter and good outlook...
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World mobile coverage
Mobile networks will provide coverage to 90% of the world's population by 2010. But the study, commissioned by the GSM Association, found it could be better if the governments properly use universal service funds. Governments had collected more than $6bn...
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Mobile broadband connectivity
HSDPA is becoming the new standard feature of notebook PCs, laptops and communication devices. Major operators and vendors are participating in this initiative launched in february by the GSM Association and Intel. Already Intel, Nokia have announced...
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3G for All
12 operators have joined the GSMA initiative, called “3G for All” aiming to sell 3G service to the mass market. Cingular, Globe Telecom, Hutchison 3G, KTF, MTN, Orange, Smart, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, T-Mobile and Vodafone are participating...
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Google buys YouTube
It was in the air during past week, now it is official. Google has bought YouTube, the the internet video-sharing success story, for $1.65bn. YouTube is a young company, created in 02/05, that has built an exciting and powerful media platform that attracted...
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AT&T-BellSouth
A major hurdle in the ATT-Bellsouth merger has been cleared with the Department of Justice decision to approve the merger plan, without any competitive or consumer conditions . The final hurdle will be to get the FCC approval. The vote was scheduled for...