tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69597389875698846022011-11-28T06:31:37.098+07:00Telecom News | Telecom Companies | Telecom IndustryStay informed on the latest Telecom Newstelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.comBlogger3821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-84459042444877015522010-12-03T00:42:00.004+07:002010-12-06T00:43:17.041+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
VERIZON WIRELESS TO LAUNCH 4GOn Sunday, Verizon Wireless will launch its LTE network, FT writes. The launch will cover 110 million people in 39 U.S. markets and 60 airports. Monthly service plans will start at USD50 for 5GB of data. Tony Melone, senior vice president and chief technical officer of Verizon Wireless said Verizon’s network would deliver telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-36526090362740808382010-12-03T00:42:00.002+07:002010-12-06T00:42:45.465+07:00Wall Street Journal
RIM SUES APPMAKERRIM has sued Kik Interactive, whose instant-messaging service competes with RIM's BlackBerry Messenger. Last month RIM pulled Kik's app from its online store. RIM is now suing the start-up for alleged patent infringement and misuse of trademarks, and is seeking a permanent injunction banning the use of the app on its devices.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-20757635637295446072010-12-03T00:41:00.001+07:002010-12-06T00:42:07.815+07:00TT, Dagens Nyheter
ERICSSON ACQUIRES ASSETS OF GUANGDONG NORTELEricsson will acquire research and service operations assets from Guangdong Nortel for USD50 million. Under the deal, approximately 1,100 employees, half of which are research staff, will be transferred to Ericsson.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-5785569779788730642010-12-03T00:40:00.001+07:002010-12-06T00:41:33.524+07:00Dagens Industri
CLEAR STRATEGY INCREASES CHANCES FOR PROFITIn a ranking of 213 major European companies that have achieved the best effect from their communications work, only five Swedish-based companies, including Ericsson, qualified. The study from the Swiss business school IMD and the PR and communications firm Burson-Marsteller, entitled “Corporate Purpose Impact 2010”, shows for the firsttelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-21713040558969998592010-12-02T00:36:00.003+07:002010-12-06T00:39:12.117+07:00Financial Times
AT&T AND BT IN TELEPRESENCE EXCHANGE
AT&T and BT have initiated the first network operator telepresence exchange, thereby setting an industry benchmark for using the technology and overshadowing other operators with similar plans, such as Tata and Orange. Together, AT&T and BT operate more than 2,000 telepresence rooms globally, including about 1,100 for corporate customers. The telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-37545550038475925262010-12-02T00:36:00.002+07:002010-12-06T00:38:20.495+07:00Wall Street Journal
RACE IS ON TO 'FINGERPRINT' PHONES, PCS
BlueCava, a U.S. start-up company, has collected the digital equivalent of fingerprints from 200 million computers, mobiles, and TV set-top boxes. By the end of next year, BlueCava expects to have catalogued one billion of the estimated 10 billion devices globally, the company’s founder and CEO, David Norris, says. WSJ writes that telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-20771759037827960672010-12-02T00:35:00.000+07:002010-12-06T00:37:53.931+07:00Dagens Industri
IPAD SALES BEAT EXPECTATIONSDI writes that the launch of the iPad created an early Christmas rush at electronic chains on Tuesday. Initial sales of the device at Elgiganten’s 33 locations exceeded expectations, and Media Markt experienced the same demand. The media analysis company Mediavision estimates that 210,000 households plan to purchase an iPad in the coming year.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-91383126599941674812010-12-01T00:34:00.002+07:002010-12-06T00:39:41.788+07:00Financial Times
Vodafone cuts data charges for smartphones
Vodafone announced Monday that it will reduce the cost of mobile data downloads for its customers travelling in the operator’s European markets. The move may reduce the risk of regulators forcing the telecom industry to implement price cuts, FT writes. Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao hopes that customers will over time spend more on their telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-86507273070765574652010-12-01T00:33:00.004+07:002010-12-06T00:40:04.418+07:00Wall Street Journal
Australian lawmaker hits broadband 'deal'
Australian lawmakers issued final approval to legislation aimed at clearing the way for national high-speed broadband Monday. But Senator Nick Xenophon, a South Australian independent, said the new access arrangements allow for a “special deal” for Telstra. “This taxpayer-funded enterprise needs to be a true level playing field to telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-59377349623573386042010-12-01T00:33:00.001+07:002010-12-06T00:33:36.129+07:00Dagens Industri, Svenska Dagbladet
Ipad to be launched tomorrow
Although the Swedish launch of the iPad is tomorrow, The Swedish Retail Institute has already chosen it as the Christmas Present of the Year. There are Android-based tablet PCs available on the market, but even Google admits that the current version of the platform is not optimally-suited for such devices. Nevertheless, with RIM’stelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-85155570170589481382010-12-01T00:32:00.001+07:002010-12-06T00:33:08.508+07:00Svenska Dagbladet
Tele2 receives bid from Network Norway
Network Norway has placed a bid on Tele2’s Norwegian operations, the news agency Direkt reports. Network Norway and Tele2 Norway are currently building a joint mobile network. telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-3421174652002671512010-11-24T00:06:00.002+07:002010-11-30T00:06:54.566+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal QTEL CONSORTIUM BUYS ORASCOM’S TUNISIAN STAKEOrascom Telecom has agreed to sell its 50-percent stake in Tunisiana, Tunisia’s largest mobile phone operator, for USD1.2 billion to a consortium including Qatar Telecom and Tunisian investment firm Princesse Holding. QTel will make the acquisition through its majority-owned Wataniya Telecom unit, which already ownsMazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-68077803555093786992010-11-24T00:06:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:06:42.519+07:00Financial Times BUZZ IN THE AIR AS AMX COMES OF AGESince it was spun off from Telmex ten years ago, AMX has grown from a small provider into a group with 216.8 million subscribers in 18 countries, placing it among the top four mobile phone providers in the world. This year it expects to generate around USD50 billion in annual sales and USD20 billion in EBITDA. When measured by the company’s more Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-85373906417777228652010-11-24T00:06:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:06:17.325+07:00Financial Times OFCOM OPENS SECOND TALKTALK INVESTIGATIONOfcom has opened a new investigation into TalkTalk focused on complaints by people “who claim to have been mis-sold a fixed-line telephone service by (TalkTalk) or have had their service switched to (TalkTalk) without their consent”, FT writes. In recent years the watchdog has had to clampdown on so-called “slamming”, where customers are Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-39109095011287101962010-11-24T00:05:00.002+07:002010-11-30T00:05:57.015+07:00Financial Times IN-BUILT SIM FOR APPLE’S IPHONE 5 RULED OUT Apple has told European mobile operators that the next version of its iPhone will not include an embedded SIM, people familiar with the situation say. Rumors of such an innovation have generated fierce opposition among several network providers.Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-79010370452447697762010-11-24T00:05:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:05:43.372+07:00Dagens Industri INVESTOR DECREASES FACEBOOK HOLDINGS Although Facebook continues to increase in value, its largest owner Accel Partners recently reduced its holdings from ten percent to eight percent. Facebook, which does not have plans to become a listed company, is unofficially worth USD39 billion, more than Yahoo and Ericsson writes DI.Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-53639357642568025772010-11-24T00:05:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:05:27.503+07:00Direkt, Svenska Dagbladet “WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF SMOKE, THERE MUST BE A FIRE SOMEWHERE”Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg hinted in a Wall Street Journal interview that the company could be developing an advanced phone together with Sony that features a retractable “TV-game” controller, writes Direkt.Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-82237669853292486192010-11-23T00:04:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:04:46.697+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal NOKIA SUFFERS FAULT WITH FLAGSHIP SMARTPHONENokia’s N8 smartphone, released only a month ago after a series of delays, has been hit by a production glitch, resulting in a power problem, in which the phone turns itself off and cannot be switched on again. The problem, though serious for those affected, involves only a “small number” of devices, according to FT Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-85288985771425983232010-11-23T00:04:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:04:34.058+07:00Wall Street Journal BUZZ BUILDS FOR SONY GAME PHONEThere have been speculations that Sony Ericsson may collaborate with parent company Sony on a smartphone with a slide-out controller for playing video games. Bert Nordberg, CEO of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, confirmed the possibility, stating in an interview cited in WSJ, “There is a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-52734962158696654842010-11-23T00:03:00.002+07:002010-11-30T00:04:13.066+07:00Financial Times FCC MOVES TO ENSURE “NET NEUTRALITY”The Federal Communications Commission in the US is expected to unveil plans for new net neutrality rules next week that could be passed as early as 15 December and would prohibit internet service providers from blocking websites or “unjustly or unreasonably” discriminating against any lawful internet traffic.GANDHI WARNS INDIAN GROWTH COMES AT AMazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-46258173667489824202010-11-23T00:03:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:03:54.294+07:00Svenska Dagbladet NSN ON ITS WAY TO STOCK EXCHANGE?Nokia and Siemens are considering an initial public offering in the jointly owned Nokia Siemens Network (NSN). Joe Kaeser, CFO of Siemens, was cited, saying an IPO could come in a mid-term perspective should the company have a positive performance. The two companies stated in August that they were trying to sell a minority stake in NSN to a Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-72890894025011162272010-11-23T00:03:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:03:41.252+07:00Elektroniktidningen 4G GIVES THREE TIMES MORE TRAFFICSwedish online technology press, Electroniktidningen writes that after one year of its LTE network operation, TeliaSonera states that average LTE users download between 14 and 15 Gbyte per month – three times more than average 3G users. Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-12146933873847662702010-11-19T23:58:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:00:00.520+07:00Wall Street JournalVERIZON RETHINKS PRICINGVerizon is exploring ways to charge consumers based on wireless connection speed and data use. While U.S. operators in general are exploring pricing options for downloading limits, Verizon is considering providing faster data transfer rates at premium prices, writes WSJ. The operator’s new LTE network can deliver between one and 12 Mbps, which opens up Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-31728599087516255752010-11-19T23:58:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:58:55.725+07:00Dagens Industri ERICSSON AT COP 16 CLIMATE CONFERENCEElaine Weidman-Grunewald originally hails from Boston, Massachusetts in the US and has held various positions at Ericsson in Sweden since 1998. For the last five years Weidman-Grunewald has been the head of sustainability at Ericsson. As the UN climate meeting, COP 16, in Mexico approaches, Weidman-Grunewald is focused on the importance of Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-60240025595298621372010-11-19T00:02:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:02:29.769+07:00Wall Street Journal INDIA SCANDAL THREATENS 'PURE' PREMIERA scandal over the government's allotment of telecom spectrum threatens to tarnish the reputation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, writes WSJ. India's Supreme Court has harshly criticized Singh for waiting 16 months to respond to a request for a probe into the matter. Thursday, the court gave the Solicitor General, which represents the Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-15012138333099576472010-11-19T00:02:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:02:15.114+07:00Financial Times INDIAN TELECOM REPORT HITS SHARESShares in Reliance Communications and the Indian real-estate developer Unitech dropped as much as 10 percent on the first day of trading after a government report claimed that they had violated licensing regulations in 2008. Both companies denied any wrongdoing Thursday.HUAWEI FACES TEST WITH DEAL APPROVALHuawei’s image in Washington stands to be Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-90391689311485743552010-11-19T00:01:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:01:58.662+07:00Dagens Industri ENGINEER WITH COLORSIn a newly-built hangar behind its head offices in Kista, Ericsson is trying to infuse color into the drab image of the engineer and transform it into one of a social reformer. Ericsson’s two-floor 2,000 square meter studio that opened in August features colorful and inviting cutting-edge design and is the most important of the company’s six global “experience Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-76779229087145877652010-11-19T00:00:00.002+07:002010-11-30T00:01:04.311+07:00Wall Street JournalVERIZON RETHINKS PRICINGVerizon is exploring ways to charge consumers based on wireless connection speed and data use. While U.S. operators in general are exploring pricing options for downloading limits, Verizon is considering providing faster data transfer rates at premium prices, writes WSJ. The operator’s new LTE network can deliver between one and 12 Mbps, which opens up Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-72829997812327760742010-11-19T00:00:00.001+07:002010-11-30T00:00:52.747+07:00Financial TimesBANKS LAUNCH RECORD EURO-DENOMINATED ‘JUNK’ BONDThe Italian telecom operator Wind plans to sell bonds valued at EUR2.5 billion as part of a broader EUR6.6 billion refinancing that will include USD1 billion of bonds in dollars. FT writes that the deal – the largest-ever euro-dominated high yield or “junk” bond deal – signifies the development of the European market as companies Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-37997810135832824092010-11-19T00:00:00.000+07:002010-11-30T00:00:37.859+07:00Wall Street Journal CHINESE FIRM ‘HIJACKED' DATAAccording to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, China Telecom unnecessarily rerouted traffic sent to approximately fifteen percent of Internet destinations, including branches of the U.S. armed services, the U.S. Senate and companies such as Microsoft, through servers in China. The incident occurred on April 8 and lasted 18 Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-26362514063324103062010-11-12T23:45:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:45:52.674+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal BRAZIL TAKEOVER BOLSTERS TELEFÓNICA RESULTS Telefónica’s third-quarter net profit more than doubled from the same period last year, to EUR5.06 billion. Overall revenue increased by 7.3 percent to EUR15.23 billion as positive currency effects in Latin America boosted revenue growth there. Net gain from the re-pricing of Vivo in Brazil reached EUR3.5 billion. Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-15822231973928365732010-11-12T23:45:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:45:39.526+07:00Financial Times BT IN DRIVE TO QUICKEN BROADBAND ROLLOUTBT reported revenue of GBP5 billion for the quarter ended September 30. Pre-tax profit was up 48 percent from sustained cost cutting, to GBP406 million. First-half profit increased by 43 percent to GBP781 million. The company raised its forecast for full-year EBITDA from GBP5.6 billion to GBP5.8 billion. “We are going in the right direction,Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-51777233363864654172010-11-12T23:44:00.002+07:002010-11-29T23:45:08.441+07:00Financial Times HOW OWNERS RANG THE CHANGES AT TDCTDC CEO Henrik Poulsen says private equity ownership of the company has resulted in major improvements in profitability and customer service, therefore proving public prejudice wrong. “I think it came as a bit of a surprise and a shock that all of a sudden (TDC) was taken over by a handful of Anglo-Saxon private equity firms,” Poulsen says. On Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-15253518591583003862010-11-12T23:44:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:44:49.025+07:00Wall Street Journal WOULD-BE HIRE PUTS SPRINT ON HOLDThe appointment of Joseph Euteneuer as the new finance chief for Sprint is being delayed due to a merger involving Euteneuer’s current company, Quest. RESCUING CLEARWIRECredit Suisse estimates that Sprint's network modernization could cost as much as USD5 billion over the next four years. Sprint, which owns a 54 percent stake in Clearwire, alsoMazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-71442156680357605112010-11-12T23:44:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:44:34.571+07:00Dagens Industri Christmas rush for tablet computersSamsung’s Galaxy Tab has beaten the iPad to the punch to become the first tablet computer launched in Sweden. The iPad is still likely to become this year’s most popular Christmas gift if it is hits the market in time. Upstart contenders include ZTE’s Android-based tablet PC, to be launched in early December, and RIM’s Playbook, which will come Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-79494802079494533422010-11-12T23:42:00.003+07:002010-11-29T23:43:02.424+07:00Wall Street Journal.com, Dagens Industri, Dow Jones ERICSSON GETS MANAGED SERVICES DEAL WITH CHINA UNICOMSwedish telecom equipment vendor Telefon AB LM Ericsson said Tuesday it has secured a three-year managed services deal with Chinese operator China Unicom's provincial company Anhui Unicom. Under the contract, Ericsson will be responsible for field maintenance of base station sites, fixed Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-57856455788110046492010-11-12T23:42:00.002+07:002010-11-29T23:42:51.202+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Dagens Industri, Dagens Nyheter Comment: News based on press release.GLOBAL HANDSET SALES UP 35 PERCENT IN THE QUARTER - ANDROID EATS INTO NOKIA’S SMARTPHONE LEADAccording to Gartner, sales of low-cost Chinese mobiles contributed to a sharp rise in handset sales in emerging markets in the third quarter. The growth of unbranded, or “white box”, phones caused Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-26974700860121983042010-11-12T23:42:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:42:29.507+07:00Wall Street Journal PLAYBOOK TO GO FOR UNDER USD500RIM confirmed Wednesday that it will launch its “PlayBook” tablet computer for under USD500, first in North America in the first quarter and then globally in the second quarter.FCC LOOKS AT GOOGLE DATA GATHERINGWSJ writes that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has joined the list of regulators to investigate Google’s information Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-89262607028455787972010-11-12T23:42:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:42:13.153+07:00Financial Times TELECOM GROUPS GRANTED REVIEW OF ONLINE PIRACY RULESFT writes that a High Court judge has granted permission for a review of the Digital Economy Act legislation. In July, BT and TalkTalk filed a complaint with the court, stating that the act was passed too hastily and with disregard to European law. “We are very pleased that the court has recognized that our concerns about the Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-75920970720385379082010-11-12T23:41:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:41:58.774+07:00Dagens Nyheter 50 PERCENT WOULD DROP FIXED BROADBANDAccording to a survey made by SIFO on behalf of Tele2, more than 50 percent of the Swedish population would consider abandoning their fixed broadband in favor of mobile broadband. The survey shows that as many as 68 percent of Swedish households could have 4G within two years.Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-61509069637788659922010-11-12T23:41:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:41:44.015+07:00TT, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter HUAWEI CONTINUES TO GROW IN SWEDENHuawei will employ an additional 50 people in Sweden before the end of the year. The new positions are mostly within technical sales and engineering. Huawei currently has 400 employees in Sweden.Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-7873875184860022732010-11-11T23:40:00.003+07:002010-11-29T23:41:01.691+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune VODAFONE TO RECEIVE USD5 BILLION FROM SOFTBANKVodafone announced it will sell its interests in SoftBank for USD5 billion as it presented better-than-expected half-year results yesterday. Vodafone reported a 56-percent increase in net profit for the six months ended September 30, which reflects the recent sale of a 3.2-percent Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-60768791608585974792010-11-11T23:40:00.002+07:002010-11-29T23:40:49.971+07:00Financial Times FRANCE TELECOM TARGETS RURAL AFRICAFT writes France Telecom is planning rapid expansion in fast-growing African and Middle Eastern markets. The company laid out plans for building networks, recruiting low-income rural customers and providing mobile Internet services via the Orange brand, hoping to double its regional revenue. Through a wide range of services such as E-Recharge, Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-61801517833918707132010-11-11T23:40:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:40:32.838+07:00Wall Street Journal, Financial Times REPORT SEES RISK IN CHINESE TELECOM GEARA congressional advisory panel report, which is expected to be released by the end of the year, will focus on US security concerns pertaining to China's growing role as a global telecom supplier. Issued by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the report states, “China will effectively become the Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-69214789637416910192010-11-11T23:40:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:40:20.014+07:00Wall Street Journal NTT POSTS PROFITJapan’s NTT reported quarterly increase of 12 percent from the corresponding period a year ago. WSJ writes that 75 percent of NTT’s operating profit came from its mobile operator subsidiary NTT Docomo, which reported a 22-percent increase in net profit and a 25-percent surge in operating profit for the quarter ended September 30, as a result of cost cutting andMazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-65783485364583568152010-11-11T23:39:00.002+07:002010-11-29T23:54:07.257+07:00The Economist SMART SYSTEMSThe convergence of the physical and the real will make the world a more efficient place and create all kinds of new services, says Economist and refers in its video on smart systems also to 50 billion connected devices in 10 years.http://adf.ly/ByWFMazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-62753907886342652142010-11-11T23:39:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:39:34.179+07:00Svenska Dagbladet NO ROOM FOR MISTAKES FOR NOKIANokia’s joint development of the Symbian platform cost the company valuable time, which gave Apple and Google an advantage, writes SvD. The company has now been forced to rethink its strategy regarding Symbian. SvD writes that the new MeeGo platform, developed together with Intel, is the company’s hope for competing with Android and Apple. Nokia canMazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-42336674291196656002010-11-09T23:38:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:38:36.386+07:00Wall Street Journal HUAWEI AND ZTE REJECTED DUE TO SECURITY CONCERNSHuawei and ZTE are both being barred from a major procurement by US telecom operator due to national-security concerns, reports WSJ. Although Sprint CEO Dan Hesse declined to comment on the matter, an Obama administration official told WSJ that Commerce Secretary Gary Locke had voiced concerns with Hesse during a recent phone Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-42638087430375039382010-11-09T23:38:00.000+07:002010-11-29T23:38:24.440+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal SPRINT AND CLEARWIRE’S TROUBLED MARRIAGEClearwire announced in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday that it may need more funding by as early as mid-2011, due to anticipated continued losses from business operations. That news may be especially troubling to Sprint, who is a major stakeholder in Clearwire, and who may be forced to Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-69190786633128315132010-11-09T23:37:00.003+07:002010-11-29T23:38:11.888+07:00Financial Times CARPHONE COMMITS TO PAYING A FINAL DIVIDENDCarphone Warehouse, the UK’s biggest phone retailer, has benefited from the successful sales of smartphones, such as the iPhone 4, posting an increase in interim pre-tax profits to GBP23.7 million for the six months to September 30, up from GBP6.8 million for the same period last year. Earnings per share rose from 1.5p to 5.5p, and the Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-91267086332440952342010-11-09T23:37:00.002+07:002010-11-29T23:37:56.093+07:00Dagens Nyheter NOKIA STEPS UPNokia is looking to intensify its activities in the areas it has chosen to focus on, Niklas Savander, deputy CEO and head of marketing for Nokia, said to DN, and added that Nokia is looking to maintain its top position both in the market for basic phones and more advanced smartphones. Savander admitted that Nokia has not been successful in the smartphone segment, but Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-44191508962616522952010-11-09T23:37:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:37:41.713+07:00Dagens Industri CHINESE COMPANIES TAKING OVER THE WORLDHuawei is mentioned as one of the top businesses in a two-page spread in DI, about the most important Chinese companies, and how they are expected to play a more significant role in their various global markets.Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-3774610363712063442010-11-08T23:36:00.003+07:002010-11-29T23:37:07.767+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Dagens Nyheter ALCATEL-LUCENT RETURNS TO PROFITAlcatel-Lucent reported a net profit of EUR25 million for Q3, up from a EUR182 million loss a year earlier. The telecom-equipment supplier repeated its annual goals including an operating margin of between 1-5 percent, writes WSJ. But FT calls the quarterly earnings disappointing, while it also reports that Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-4336014271181379772010-11-08T23:36:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:36:48.423+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal T-MOBILE STRUGGLES WITHOUT IPHONET-Mobile continues to lose mobile customers, mostly because it cannot offer its customers the iPhone, according to Deutsche Telekom top executive Rene Obermann. The CEO also conceded that an agreement with Apple is not close at hand. However, T-Mobile has increased its prepaid-customer base more than enough to make up for its Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-506640223382534312010-11-08T23:35:00.003+07:002010-11-29T23:36:22.150+07:00Financial Times C&W COMMUNICATIONS RESULTS DISAPPOINTCable & Wireless Communications reported disappointing financial results, its pre-tax profits declining by four percent to USD210 million for its first fiscal six months ending on 30 September.CHINESE BANKS HELP FUND HUAWEI DEAL CamGSM, Cambodia’s top mobile operator, has obtained financing for a USD500 million five-year contract with Huawei Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-16139751005261103262010-11-08T23:35:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:35:56.592+07:00Wall Street Journal SAMSUNG CRACKS TABLET MARKETSamsung announced yesterday that it aims to sell over one million units of its new Galaxy Tab device in 2010. The electronics giant added that it will start offering the tablet computer in other sizes as it attempts to grab a larger share of the tablet market.DELL DEALS RIM A BLOWDell is switching over its 25,000 employees from BlackBerrys to its Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-34726288343168150562010-11-08T23:34:00.001+07:002010-11-29T23:35:14.231+07:00Dagens Industri ERICSSON’S TOWER TUBE STILL WAITING FOR TAKEOFFSo far, Ericsson’s futuristic site solution the Tower Tube has experienced slower-than-expected sales, writes DI. However, Ericsson's Ulf Ewaldsson, vice president and head of radio products, says that the favorable exposure Ericsson has gained from the Tower Tube more than compensates for its so-far disappointing sales. Ewaldsson Mazaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863315545115480503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-22353035575865921462010-11-02T11:45:00.003+07:002010-11-03T11:46:40.577+07:00Wall Street Journal
SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINA STRETCH TO ZTEFour lawmakers have submitted a letter to the FCC, expressing security concerns over allowing the Chinese firm ZTE to freely conduct business in the United States. ZTE officials have stated that the company intends to set up facilities in the U.S. and open the companies’ hardware and software up to outside auditors.APPLE SUES telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-33767075288995009512010-11-02T11:45:00.001+07:002010-11-03T11:45:25.808+07:00Financial Times
ANDROID FACES CRITICAL SECURITY STUDY
Coverity, a code analysis group, has conducted a study of the Android operating system, and concluded that handsets using the operating system are vulnerable to hackers, reports FT. Coverity used the version of Android that comes inside the HTC Droid Incredible as the subject of its study. The analysis has been submitted to Google and HTC, telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-87689634177406529432010-11-02T11:44:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:48:00.763+07:00Svenska Dagbladet
SWEDES REJECT MOBILE PAYMENTSAccording to a study by KPMG, Swedes are relatively unwilling to use their handheld devices to make payments. Anders Pettersson, head of mobile banking at Swedbank, believes the main reasons are security concerns and that Swedes are already satisfied with their other online-banking options, writes SvD.CLOUDS AHEAD IN PROFITABLE TECHNOLOGY SKY
telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-62537423161625009102010-11-02T11:43:00.001+07:002010-11-03T11:44:28.505+07:00Dagens Industri
ERICSSON SHARES FOURTH PLACE IN CSR REPORTING
The PR firm Halvarsson and Halvarsson has ranked the communications of Swedish companies in the area of CSR since 2003, according to criteria based on a survey among journalists, analysts and job-seekers. The top positions this year were dominated by industrial companies; Trelleborg was ranked number one. Ericsson shared fourth place telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-20260560078067996082010-10-29T11:42:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:48:16.651+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
DROID LIFTS MOTOROLA SALES
Motorola posted USD4.9 billion in sales in Q3, the first sales increase since 2006, reports WSJ. The growth was largely driven by sales of its Droid handset, which fared well despite intense competition from other Android-based devices from Samsung and HTC. Motorola shipped 3.8 million smartphones in Q3.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-6663436938339866722010-10-29T11:41:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:41:57.430+07:00Dagens Industri, also covered in part by International Herald Tribune
AN EVEN GREATER LEAP FORWARDChina is growing rapidly when it comes to technology and science, and it might soon be the number one country in the world when it comes to patent applications, writes DI, and continues that several Swedish companies, including Ericsson, conduct significant parts of their research and development intelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-17021570648379997822010-10-29T11:12:00.010+07:002010-11-03T11:38:40.625+07:00Financial Times
HUAWEI AND OPTION FORM TELECOM TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE
FT writes that Huawei and Option, a Belgian manufacturer of wireless modems, have entered into a broad technology alliance. Under the deal, Huawei will license software from Option for EUR27 million in the first year and acquire Option’s chip-making subsidiary M4S. A joint R&D facility in Belgium may also be in the works. The telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-36578756658417573942010-10-29T11:11:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:12:02.829+07:00Financial Times, Dagens Industri
IT BATTLE HEATS UPOracle CEO Larry Ellison has demanded that HP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker testify in an upcoming industrial espionage trial. Ellison says Apotheker is personally guilty in the code theft case in which SAP, for which Apotheker was formerly CEO, has admitted stealing from Oracle. HP has responded by saying that Oracle only intends to damage the telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-3747801983902955592010-10-29T11:10:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:22:05.879+07:00Svenska Dagbladet
BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED RESULTS FOR TELENOR
Net operating profit for Norwegian telecom operator Telenor fell from NOK4.6 billion last year to NOK3.9 billion in Q3 2010. The results beat analysts’ expectations, however. Business volume increased to NOK24.1 billion, compared with NOK22.8 billion in the corresponding period a year ago. Profit after taxes declined from SEK3.5 billion telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-64803860079614480142010-10-29T11:08:00.001+07:002010-11-03T11:10:06.413+07:00TT, Dagens Nyheter
CHINA LASHES OUT AT APPLEThe Chinese company Proview Technology has requested government authorities seize Apple products and has demanded Apple pay SEK800 million for using the trade name iPad. Referring to a government archive, The Beijing News reported that Proview registered the iPad name in China in 2000. telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-49747057422082397172010-10-21T10:59:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:15:01.189+07:00Wall Street Journal
LAWMAKERS URGE SCRUTINY OF CHINESE GEAR SUPPLIERSFour US lawmakers pressed the FCC to take a closer look at Chinese telecom-equipment makers and consider restrictions that would make it harder for them to do business in the US, writes WSJ. Sent just weeks before Sprint is expected to choose suppliers for a multibillion-dollar network upgrade, the letter states: “The telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-58355326082589684592010-10-21T10:58:00.004+07:002010-11-03T10:59:09.198+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
TECH RIVALS WAGE WAR OF WORDSWSJ writes that RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie responded to public criticism from Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an emailed message in which he said, “Many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple.” “We've now passed RIM, and I don't see them catching up,” Jobs said on Monday, making a surprise appearance telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-39832054733786403832010-10-21T10:58:00.002+07:002010-11-03T10:58:33.402+07:00The International Herald Tribune
OFFICIALS PUSH TO BOLSTER LAW ON WIRETAPPINGAccording to the International Herald Tribune, U.S Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requires phone and broadband carriers to ensure that their networks can be wiretapped. Federal officials say tougher telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-23786619424847970362010-10-21T10:57:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:57:58.090+07:00Dagens Industri
COMPANY STEALS ERICSSON’S LOGOTYPEA Hong Kong-based mobile manufacturer has copied Ericsson’s logotype and homepage layout on its own site. The company calls itself Hericsson and sells mobiles that resemble Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Blackberry models, writes DI. On its site, which is amateurish and rife with spelling errors, Hericsson claims that through low prices and good telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-71595003531128347862010-10-21T10:56:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:57:22.891+07:00Bloomberg, TT, Svenska Dagbladet, News Wire Direkt
ERICSSON: OPERATIONS AGREEMENT WITH 3UK STANDS, DECLINES TO SPECULATE IN FUTUREEricsson’s operations agreement with Hutchison 3G UK, operating under the name 3UK, stands as previously stipulated until December 2012 after being tried in court. So says Josephine Edwall Björklund, head of communications within BU Global Services. Edwall Björklund telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-23215164100590622172010-10-20T10:55:00.003+07:002010-11-03T11:15:43.946+07:00Financial Times
RESEARCH IN MOTION UNVEILS UAE PARTNERSHIPS
RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie announced a series of partnerships with the United Arab Emirates’ telecom regulator and two state-backed operators on Monday. One plan, for example, is to launch a BlackBerry application that would allow Dubai-based users to pay utilities bills via smartphones. The deals mark a dramatic shift in telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-5773750275238619012010-10-20T10:53:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:55:07.014+07:00Wall Street Journal, TT
APPLE PROFITS SURPASS IBM
Apple posted a 70-percent increase in quarterly earnings, to USD4.31 billion. By comparison, IBM’s earnings in the same period went up twelve percent to USD3.59 billion. Revenues in the quarter were up 67 percent from a year ago to USD20.3 billion for Apple, and three percent for IBM to USD24.3 billion. On Wednesday, at its “Back to the Mac” telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-57487060247789980272010-10-20T10:52:00.003+07:002010-11-03T10:53:15.080+07:00Wall Street Journal
TELEVISA, NII END ACCORDMexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa and NII Holdings have agreed to terminate an accord under which Televisa planned to take a 30-percent stake in NII's Nextel Mexico for USD1.44 billion, writes WSJ.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-48552520816254364352010-10-20T10:52:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:52:43.349+07:00The Economic Times, India
INDIA REVIEWS RECENT TELECOM GEAR IMPORT RULES
India is reviewing telecoms gear import rules that it unveiled earlier this year to address security concerns, the country's top telecoms official said, after companies expressed difficulties implementing stricter rules including sharing their hardware and software codes. Rentala Chandrashekhar, secretary of India's telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-13323888311492395562010-10-20T10:50:00.002+07:002010-11-03T10:51:23.687+07:00Dagens Nyheter
MOBILETV
According to new statistics from the company MMS, seven percent of the Swedish population chooses to watch online programs over traditional television. This year, viewership for mobile TV increased from three percent to nine percent in the last year, and in certain age groups the increase was four-fold. There was, however, a major difference between the mobile TV habitstelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-3915947428289426272010-10-20T10:49:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:50:03.748+07:00Svenska Dagbladet
MOBILE EXPLOSION DEMANDS NEW PRICING
The market was far from ready when the company 3 launched one of the world’s first 3G mobile networks, writes SvD. Phones were too cumbersome and lacking in features for consumers to see the attraction of the network, which was costly to build. It wasn’t until the mobile broadband breakthrough three years ago when consumers began using telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-42687322473429337662010-10-19T10:47:00.003+07:002010-11-03T10:48:53.561+07:00Dagens Industri, Dagens Nyheter, Financial Times, Svenska Dagbladet
SONY ERICSSON’S Q3 RESULTSSony Ericsson reported 10.4 million handset units sold in the third quarter, down 26 percent from the same period last year. The decline was mostly attributed to component shortages. However, President Bert Nordberg claimed responsibility for a cautious, low-risk strategy that failed to account for telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-16460030835221350772010-10-19T10:47:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:47:48.625+07:00Financial Times
BT STICKS TO REVENUE OUTLOOKOn Friday BT confirmed its revenue outlook for 2010-11 and said it had not lost any government contracts following a review of with ministers.VIMPELCOMFT’s Lex column poses the question if Naguib Sawiris’ telecom empire too large to sell. After the failed sale of assets to South Africa’s MTN earlier this year, the deal with Vimpelcom is now teetering telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-79019028375334148012010-10-19T10:46:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:47:17.254+07:00Wall Street Journal
TERRESTAR CONSIDERS CHAPTER 11 PROTECTIONTerreStar, a Virginia-based mobile-communications business attempting to launch a far-reaching wireless network using satellite smartphones, is preparing a possible filing for bankruptcy protection, according to people familiar with the matter, writes WSJ.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-80322056935745209242010-10-19T10:37:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:20:16.463+07:00Dagens Nyheter
TOUGH TIMES AWAIT NORDIC GIANTS
DN’s Pia Gripenberg writes that both Nokia and Ericsson have struggled to hold onto their market positions, and while Ericsson has successfully implemented changes, Nokia has some difficult times ahead. Nokia has lost ground to Asian companies in markets where it once reigned supreme. Sales and profitability do not appear to be on the rise, and thetelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-87655047962527881262010-10-19T10:36:00.002+07:002010-11-03T11:20:32.042+07:00TT, Dagens Industri, Svenska Dagbladet
SMS MOST POPULAR AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS IN US STUDY
According to the Nielson report mentioned last week, monthly SMS traffic was the highest for teenage girls, an average of 4,050 per month. Boys sent and received 2,539 texts per month. On the whole, SMS traffic increased for teenagers by eight percent, compared with the corresponding period last year. TT telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-29444756405007896022010-10-15T10:32:00.003+07:002010-11-03T10:33:38.984+07:00Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
VERIZON AND AT&T STORES TO SELL IPAD TABLETSWhile Samsung, Motorola and others prepare their own launches of tablet devices in early 2011, Verizon and AT&T gained a headstart before the holidays, striking deals with Apple to start selling iPads by the end of this month. The WiFi-enabled iPad will be the first Apple product sold in Verizon’s stores, while AT&Ttelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-12473633230936409862010-10-15T10:32:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:32:49.391+07:00Wall Street Journal
RIM TRIES HARDER ON APPS – BLACKBERRY MAKER HOPES NEW TOOLS LURE CUSTOMERS FROM IPHONE, OTHER DEVICESIn an attempt to increase user- and developer-friendliness of the BlackBerry, its maker, Research in Motion, is launching a number of new services to curb the tide of customer defections to app-friendlier devices like the iPhone and those running on Google’s Android operating telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-44601725238046119362010-10-15T10:31:00.003+07:002010-11-03T10:32:20.951+07:00Financial Times
RIVALS YET TO SCRATCH SURFACE OF APPLE’S LEADApple’s quarterly results on Monday are expected to confirm 2010 as the year of the iPad claims FT. Now a swathe of companies is approaching tablets as either large-format smartphones or keyboard-less notebooks. Apple could sell about 15m units this year of a product it introduced in April, according to analyst estimates. By telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-56727797693042263612010-10-15T10:31:00.001+07:002010-11-03T10:31:38.748+07:00Dagens Industri
THE KEYBOARD’S FUTURE IS SECUREMicrosoft has not given up the battle for mobile users. Its new operative system, Windows Phone 7, was presented this week and will be found initially on four smartphones to be launched next year in Europe, including the HTC7 Pro, with its QWERTY keyboard.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-54242466703541516022010-10-05T16:06:00.003+07:002010-10-10T16:07:01.259+07:00ERICSSON WITHHOLDS BSNL BID
Ericsson has opted to not bid on a major contract with India’s state-run BSNL. Ericsson said it objected to a government condition requiring bidders to submit software and hardware codes for third party inspection. Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, ZTE and NSN all submitted bids for a contract, valued at USD451 million, to supply equipment for BSNL's project to add 5.5 million telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-81826115419135381042010-10-05T16:06:00.001+07:002010-10-10T16:06:33.663+07:00EMERGING TELECOMS IN USD6.5 BILLION DEAL
WSJ and FT report that VimpelCom is buying Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris's 52-percent stake in Cairo-based Orascom. VimpelCom is also acquiring the entire Italian carrier Wind, owned entirely by Sawiris and controlled through his private holding company Weather Investments. The deal will make VimpelCom the world's fifth-largest mobile operator by telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-18041834320799227192010-10-05T16:05:00.001+07:002010-10-10T16:06:03.293+07:00SKYPE HIRES CHIEF FROM CISCOThe head of Cisco's enterprise, commercial and small-business arm, Tony Bates, will become Skype's CEO at the end of October. Bates, who was considered a potential successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers, will succeed Joshua Silverman, the former eBay executive who took over Skype in early 2008. (Wall Street Journal)SUBWAY STOPS SET TO BEGIN WIRELESS TIES IN LATE 2011AT&Ttelecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-88300626266763104032010-10-01T16:04:00.005+07:002010-10-10T16:08:08.303+07:00Wall Street Journal
SPRINT OFFICIALS LEAVE CLEARWIRE BOARD
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, Keith Cowan, president of strategy and corporate initiatives, and Steven Elfman, president of network operations and wholesale, resigned from Clearwire's board under pressure Thursday after Clearwire raised concerns about recent developments in antitrust law, according to people familiar with the matter.AFTER DELAY,telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-24973864240995771782010-10-01T16:04:00.004+07:002010-10-10T16:07:45.291+07:00Financial Times
ERICSSON IN FT LEX COLUMNFT writes about the difficulties that Nokia and Ericsson have faced in the smartphone era. Nokia’s problem is as simple as failing to make handsets that live up to the competition. Ericsson, however, ought to be reaping the benefits of the exponential growth in mobile data traffic that is straining networks. Yet its network division’s first-half revenues telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-64643336396477051662010-10-01T16:03:00.004+07:002010-10-10T16:04:17.275+07:00Svenska Dagbladet
SWEDISH COMPANIES AT FULL SPEED IN BRAZIL
Many Swedish companies entered Brazil very early on and have now gained a unique position over other countries in one of the world’s largest markets. Between three and four Swedish companies enter the Brazilian market every year. 220 Swedish companies are now active in the country, with a collective business volume of about SEK105 telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-2514339518448014042010-10-01T16:03:00.001+07:002010-10-10T16:03:23.431+07:00Financial Times
ETISALAT IN MOVE TO ACQUIRE ZAIN STAKE
Etisalat has made an offer to acquire a major stake in Zain, in what could be one of the largest-ever deals in the Gulf. “Etisalat has submitted a preliminary conditional offer to buy a stake in Zain. Concluding this offer depends on the fulfillment of certain requirements and conditions necessary to finalize the deal,” Etisalat said in a telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-44869610497550045932010-10-01T16:02:00.004+07:002010-10-10T16:08:32.411+07:00Wall Street Journal
'NET NEUTRALITY' IS LEFT TO FCC AS CONGRESS FAILS TO TAKE ACTION
On Wednesday, Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, failed to win support for a proposal that would provide the FCC limited power to regulate broadband traffic. Republicans on Waxman's committee declined to support his proposal, which was opposed for different reasons by some telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-82987784457431425202010-10-01T16:02:00.001+07:002010-10-10T16:02:38.744+07:00Dagens Industri, Dagens Nyheter
AIRLINE CUSTOMERS SEEK BILLIONS IN DAMAGES CLAIM
A damage claim for cartel behavior in the airline industry will be launched today in Netherlands. The British company CFI (Claims Funding International) is representing companies from eleven EU countries, including Ericsson in a claim against KLM and Air France and KLM-owned Martinair for cartel activities between. telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-35282351702898948162010-10-01T16:01:00.001+07:002010-10-10T16:02:12.437+07:00Dagens Industri
FIVE COMPANIES WITH A GOOD SALES CULTURE
DI spoke with researcher and author Lars-Johan Åge, who has developed a scientific theory of sales. According to Åge, a company requires four integrated principles for a successful sales process: A standardized business methodology, the ability to develop long-term close client relationships, enthusiasm from individual employees, and a telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-57366976233704190882010-09-30T16:01:00.001+07:002010-10-10T16:01:28.312+07:00Wall Street Journal
RIM FINDS PLAYBOOK BUDDY BUT STILL HAS A LOT TO PROVEBest Buy has agreed to sell RIM’s new tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, reports WSJ. The deal will make a major difference in alleviating the problems of finding marketing channels for the new device, as operators have shown limited interest. The PlayBook will compete with the iPad and Dell’s Streak on the telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-8157179299710154572010-09-29T16:00:00.002+07:002010-10-10T16:00:57.055+07:00Financial Times
KNOOK TO QUIT AS VODAFONE STALLS ON WEB AMBITIONS
The head of Vodafone’s newly-formed Internet-services unit Pieter Knook is leaving the company after important aspects of the operation were abandoned, writes FT. Knook was recruited from Microsoft in 2008.telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959738987569884602.post-61545525476328851802010-09-29T15:59:00.007+07:002010-10-10T16:09:12.254+07:00Dagens Industri, Svenska Dagbladet
GOOGLE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER EMPLOYER AMONG STUDENTS
Google came in at first place among both engineering and economics students in Universum’s second-annual international survey of the most sought-after employers. Among engineering students, Microsoft retained its second-place position from last year, and Sony moved from seventh place to fourth place. Apple made telecom newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973860429832955642noreply@blogger.com0