News, Features, Events
Motorola deepens FTTH presence with rural telcos
www.fiercetelecom.com — With over 1 million BPON and GPON Optical Network Terminals (ONT) shipped as of October 2009, it’s safe to say that Motorola is no longer a newcomer in the Fiber to the Home market. One segment that’s tuning to Motorola’s FTTH channel is the U.S. rural independent ILEC market… Continue…
Telecom Italia to inform govt on growth, Telefonica
www.totaltele.com — Italy Industry Minister Claudio Scajola said Thursday he met with Telecom Italia SpA chief executive Franco Bernabe, who Scajola said pledged to keep the government informed on any change in its growth plans and in its relationship with Spanish peer Telefonica S.A… Continue…
Orascom Telecom extends management contract with Lebanese Alfa
www.totaltele.com — Orascom Telecom Holding, the largest Arab mobile firm by subscribers, said Thursday that it was given an extension to the management contract of Alfa, one of the two Lebanese mobile telecommunications operators, for a period of six months ending 31 July, 2010… Continue…
Africa’s IT Leaders Summit come to Johannesburg
www.itnewsafrica.com — All is set for the IT Leaders Africa Summit where stakeholders in the ICT sector will discuss prevailing issues in the industry.The two-day event is scheduled for the 8th-9th of February 2010… Continue…
MTN Rwanda slashes investment budget for 2010
www.itnewsafrica.com — MTN Rwanda today announced a 55% decrease in annual investment this year, compared to 2009, writes national publication The New Times… Continue…
Indian Tower Operator Secures Expansion Funding
www.cellular-news.com — Indian tower operator, Tower Vision has raised US$300 million from private investors to expand its tower portfolio. The funding cam from a consortium of investors led by US based Quadrangle Capital Partners. The consortium included seven additional - unnamed - investors… Continue…
NTT Q4 net profit down 0.7%
www.totaltele.com — Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. said Friday its net profit slightly declined in the October-December quarter mainly due to accounting changes… Continue…
Globe targets 1.3m broadband subscribers in 2010
www.totaltele.com — Globe Telecom Inc. aims to increase its broadband subscribers to 1.3 million this year, nearly double the 715,000 it had at the end of 2009, the Philippines’ second-largest telecommunications group by sales said Friday… Continue…
FASTTAKES: Globe Telecom, StarHub, ST Telemedia, France Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent
www.telecomasia.net — Globe Telecom’s mobile service revenues declined 4% to P53.3 billion ($1.15b) in 2009 vs. 2008. Globe said the drop was due to “intense competition,” “a weak consumer economy” and an “increasing preference of subscribers [to take]…value offers.” Consolidated service revenues fell from P62.9 billion to P62.4 billion, while net income was up 11% to P12.6 billion… Continue…
Philippines Bans Cell Phone Jammers
www.cellular-news.com — The Philippines telecoms regulator, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has banned the sale, purchase, possession or use of cell phone jamming devices. However, an exemption has been left that enables individual cases to be heard where jammers will be permitted… Continue…
Alca-Lu exec: WiMAX has lost to LTE
www.fiercewireless.com — An Alcatel-Lucent executive sought to put more distance between the company and mobile WiMAX, arguing the wireless industry has clearly chosen LTE as the technology of choice for next-generation networks… Continue…
Cisco could unveil new core router soon
www.fiercetelecom.com — Watch out Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper, Cisco may be soon taking the covers off the long-awaited follow-up to its CRS-1 core router, the MSC 120… Continue…
UK Regulator Calls for Review of T-Mobile, Orange Merger
www.cellular-news.com — The UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has called on the European Commission (EC) to refer the UK aspects of the proposed joint venture between Orange UK and T-Mobile UK to back to itself. The OFT’s initial view, following consultation, is that the joint venture threatens significantly to affect competition in mobile telecommunications in the UK… Continue…
European telcos to show signs of recovery
www.totaltele.com — Fourth-quarter results from European operators are expected to show some signs of recovery in mobile, but the regulatory drag on revenue is set to persist… Continue…
Mobile phone market shrinks in Q4 but better than previous quarters
bnamericas.com — Latin America’s mobile phone market shrunk in the fourth quarter, though the performance marked an improvement from the double-digit declines posted in previous quarters, consultancy IDC said in a statement… Continue…
Motorola and Zain Nigeria in multimillion dollar partnership
www.itnewsafrica.com — Zain Nigeria today signed a multimillion dollar deal with Motorola to expand its coverage, capacity and improve the service quality of its existing GSM network. The project aims to expand coverage of mobile services to rural Nigeria… Continue…
