Ecuador ends October with a mobile subscriber base of 11.2Mn
The mobile subscriber base in Ecuador stood at 11.2mn subscribers at the end of October in comparison to 9.7mn at October-end 2007, reports telecoms supervisory body Supertel. Porta leads the charts with 7.82mn subscribers, followed by Movistar Ecuador of Spain’s Telefónica with 2.95mn subscribers, and locally owned Alegro PCS with 391,587 subscribers.
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Japan MID Market to Reach 5.3 Million Units by 2012 – TMC Net (Matt’s blog)
Japan MID Market to Reach 5.3 Million Units by 2012 TMC Net, CT – 2 hours ago When mobile WiMAX (News – Alert) is vitalized, MID products that cover voice services based on VoIP and offer mobile broadband might hit the market . …
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Report: Japanese Mobile Internet Device market to reach 5.3 Million units by 2012 (Carrypad UMPC feed)
Japan’s population is about 128 million people so to say that one in 25 will buy a MID in 2012, just over 3 years away, seems a little surprising. Even more surprising is the prediction that, together with 18 million…
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Intel plans hook up all of Cairo to WiMAX broadband internet by 2010 – Business Today Egypt (Matt’s blog)
Intel plans hook up all of Cairo to WiMAX broadband internet by 2010 Business Today Egypt, Egypt – 7 hours ago XOHM, Sprinta s 4G business arm, is working with several partners in the telecom, mobile phone and computer hardware sectors to make WiMAX technology …
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Rogers Wireless launches 3.5G network in Canada
The Canadian incumbent Rogers Wireless has upgraded its network to 3G, allowing its subscribers to surf internet on their mobile phones at faster speeds. The mobile operator has doubled the speed of its High Speed Packet Access cellular broadband network, offering subscribers up to 7.2 Mbps downlink speed. Rogers said the network can be considered [...]
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BeST aims at a mobile market share of 33% after 2009 (Belarus)
The Belarus based operator Belarusian Telecommunications Network (BeST), majorily owned by Turkcell instigates a rising market share in the domestic mobile market to 33% after 2009, which currently is trailing at a market share of 5%, as it looks forward to be in neck to neck competition with MTS Belarus and Mobile Digital Communications (Velcom). [...]
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India adds 7 million GSM subcribers in November, Airtel leads the charts
India has reportedly added 7 million GSM subcribers in the month of November, ending with a GSM subscriber base of 249.3 million. Bharti Airtel leaded the list of net additions with 2.7million subscribers followed by Vodafone Essar which added 2 million subscribers in November. BSNL added 0.6million subscribers and MTNL added 77,398 subscribers.
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Vodafone Ireland to axe 150 jobs
Vodafone Ireland has said that 150 jobs are to be lost as the company slims down its operation due to global economic credit crunch. Vodafone told its staff that they are hoping to make the redundancies through a voluntary redundancy programme. The company is beginning a month-long consultation process with unions and employees. Presently, the [...]
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T-Mobile Germany launches BlackBerry Curve 8900
T-Mobile Germany and Research In Motion today launched the BlackBerry® Curve(TM) 8900 smartphone. The new BlackBerry Curve 8900 has an expansive feature set that keeps users easily connected with their office, friends and family. In addition to exceptional phone, email, messaging, organizer, web browser and multimedia applications, the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 also features global [...]
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3G deployment encounters further delays (Moscow)
The 3G licence holders, MTS, Vimpelcom and MegaFon – have already deployed the necessary technology for a commercial launch of services but faces further delays as the Russian military has still not liberated UMTS frequencies. Alexander Malis, Vimpelcom’s Director for Broadband Development, said, First, the military promised to free the frequencies by 1st September [...]
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Telekom Malaysia standardizes network infrastructure using 3Com Core (Malaysia)
3Com, a converged network infrastructure supplier, announced that TM Research & Development Sdn Bhd, the R&D arm of Malaysia’s largest telecom operator, Telekom Malaysia Berhad, has standardized the network infrastructure of its new Innovation Center on 3Com solutions and technologies.
According to the company, the new network replaces a legacy, multi-platform networking environment–making it easier for [...]
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Bakrie invests US$200Mn to build more BTS (Indonesia)
PT Bakrie Telecom said that it will invest US$200 million next year in building more base transceiver stations (BTS). Finance Director of PT Bakrie Telecom, Jastiro Abi, said that the investment plan is part of US$600 million of the company’s capital expenditure to be set aside until 2010. By the end of this year the [...]
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Econet’s Zimbabwean SIMs see a lucrative black market in South Africa
Econet Wireless’s SIM cards are up for sale in Zimbabwe and are a hit in the market in South Africa from where the black marketers are doing brisk business. These SIM cards are easily available to everybody at many bus stations here at a price of R700 each, compared to those of South Africa’s three [...]
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SK Telecom set to launch Blackberry Bold 9000 (South Korea)
SK Telecom has announced that they are collaborating with Research in Motion to launch their Blackberry Bold 9000 smartphone in the South Korean market.
They can now launch this phone in the domestic market after a rule was changed by the regulatory bodies requiring the phones to come loaded with special software adapted to South Korea’s [...]
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Govt. deeming over MNP, says PM (India)
The Government was actively considering allowing mobile number portability where in users can switch operators without changing numbers and also mobile virtual network operators will not be able to piggyback on someone else’s network in the country, said, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. With the existing scenario of falling ARPU and reducing tariffs and low margins, [...]
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RIM to acquire Chalk Media Corp. (Canada)
Research In Motion Limited and Chalk Media Corp. (”Chalk”) announced that the two companies have entered into an arrangement agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement”) for RIM to acquire Chalk, a publicly-held company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, in an all-cash transaction at a price per share of CDN $0.142, or CDN $23,125,000.
Concurrently with the execution of [...]
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India’s telecoms subscriber base to reach 700Mn by 2012
India is expected to reach the mark of 700 million subscribers by 2012 and operators will focus on penetrating into the rural areas, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. According to the current statistics, India had 363.95 million telecom subscribers at the end of October, including 325.73 million wireless users. In the month of October, the [...]
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Alcatel-Lucent will cut WiMAX investment to reduce costs (Computer World)
Alcatel-Lucent will cut its investment in WiMax to reduce costs, instead pinning its fourth-generation mobile broadband hopes on the rival LTE technology.
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Singapore’s StarHub launches first commercial 3G femtocell service (Engadget Mobile)
Filed under: Misc Generally speaking, when cable providers offer up “triple-play” packages, that third leg is a digital phone that acts as a standalone landline. Singapore’s StarHub has a better idea, and it’s calling it Home Zone. Hailed as the first commercial 3G femtocell service, the setup puts a MaxOnline-enabled router (free on loan) in the home “so that users can make voice and video calls…
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New Reliance Wimax Connection: Make sense ? (TechEnclave)
@Wimax users: How’z the connection now ? Downtimes ? Speeds ? Login/logout as in Session timeouts ? Customer care ? I am planning to shift from my current Tata 128kbps to Reliance Wimax 400UL. Its for 999/- plus taxes. Anyone using the same plan ?…
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Tranzeo Wireless Announces EPCOM Chile as its South American … – FOXBusiness (Matt’s blog)
Tranzeo Wireless Announces EPCOM Chile as its South American … FOXBusiness – 4 hours ago … 2008 ( MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) —-Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. (TSX: TZT), a premier manufacturer of wireless broadband and WiMAX communication …
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LG Telecom intends to launch 4G mobile service by 2013 (South Korea)
LG Telecom, CEO Jung Il-jae, said that the telco is planning to launch 4G mobile services in 2013. ‘Further upgraded 4G mobile communications service will be provided beginning 2013 upon establishing a nationwide network, once low-band frequency is secured next year,’ Jung added. In 2009, operator will focus on securing spectrum in the 800MHz-900MHz range. [...]
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Orange Kenya gives a permanent status to Sh1/min promotional offer
Orange Kenya makes its Sh1/min offer a permanent one limited only to five people on each subscriber call list. The following offer was initially started as a two month promotion offer. “As of today, the one shilling charge on the Orange network will become part of the permanent prepaid tariff on the Friends & Family [...]
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Korean market welcomes foreign mobile phones
The South Korean telecommunications regulator will reportedly allow the sale of Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones without certain locally developed software. According to the regulations established by Korea Communications Commission (KCC), mobile phone has to use domestic software for web-based services called Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI). But this software is creating difficulty [...]
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Bharti Airtel aims 3G launch within 6 months of spectrum allocation (India)
Bharti Airtel, the no.1 Indian operator, says it anticipates to launch its 3G services in the six months of spectrum allocation. The 3G spectrum is due for auction in January’09 and allocation will take place within a few after auction.
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Mobilink loses 2,000,000 subscribers due to interrupted services (Pakistan)
Mobilink, the Pakistani incumbent, has lost more than 2,000,000 subscribers driven by interrupted service and blocking of illegal SIM by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Mobilink’s subscriber base now slided from 32 million to 30 million.
It is seen that out of the 20,00,000 subscribers, 7,50,000 have ported their numbers to other cellcos and the rest 12,50,000 [...]
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Exclusive Mobile Advertising Partner for 3 Denmark
3 Denmark has chosen JumpTap as their exclusive strategic partner for mobile advertising. JumpTap will provide complete end-to-end services, including ad sales, campaign management, reporting and ad serving. The partnership adds the popular Planet 3 portal to the fast growing JumpTap Premium Mobile Ad Network.
Through the partnership, JumpTap will provide complete end-to-end services, including ad [...]
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Telcos propose 3%-8% of gross revenue as bandwidth fee (India)
The telecom regulator of India, recommends levying 3%-8% of gross revenue from second- and third-generation mobile service operators every year as charges for allotting radio bandwidth. TRAI in its recommendation note to the department of telecommunications (DoT) has advised levying 2% of the highest bid amount in the 3G spectrum auction as annual administrative charges. [...]
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Neotel in a project finance deal worth $43Mn (South Africa)
Neotel Ltd. (launched in 2006) has inked a project finance deal worth $43 million. This agreement brings to ZAR7.5 billion funding secured by the company, said; it would replace all its bridging finance. Neotel said the funding is made up of a combination of new equity and debt, with the debt facilities arranged by Nedbank [...]
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Huawei plans to launch Android based mobile handsets (China)
Huawei Technologies, the Chinese based company, has been in talks with Google to make Android based mobile phones. Google Android is a Linux based mobile operating system which comes loaded with Google powered technologies. This will be a successful catch fro Google to bring its Android based mobile handsets to the Chinese handset market.
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