Cell phones in Switzerland
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Swisscom posts 32 percent drop in 3Q net profit Swisscom reported Wednesday a 32 percent decline in net profit for the third quarter partly due to costs related to the launch of the iPhone and the acquisition of Italian telecom Fastweb....Tele2 reports impairment loss from goodwill and other assets for continued operations Tele2 has announced a write-down of SEK 943 million (US$133.8 million) on its networks in Austria and Switzerland - which will be reported in Q3 2008. The company said that the impairment loss will have no impact on its cash flow....Mass Experiment in Telecoms Quality Perception Swiss network quality measurement company, SwissQual says that it has carried out a mass experiment aimed at understanding how humans perceive "quality" in telecommunication services in order to support the development of a new ITU sponsored measurement standard....Tele2 has sold its Swiss operation to TDC Sunrise for approximately SEK 300 million (US$46 million) in cash on a debt and cash free basis.... Swisscom 1st Half Net Income at CHF840 Million Swisscom AG Wednesday said that thanks largely to the acquisition of the Italian company Fastweb in spring 2007, Swisscom posted a 17.6% increase in revenue to CHF 5,991 million and an 18.9% increase in operating income (EBITDA) to CHF 2,427 million for the first half of 2008....Swisscom Expands Mobile Advertising on Vodafone Live Portal Mobile advertising agency, Ad Infuse has announced an expansion of its relationship with Switzerland's Swisscom to deploy its adInMotion platform within the Vodafone live! portal. ...Comfone Launches Remote Wi-Fi Test Service The service enables operators and software suppliers to remotely test the inter-operability between WISPr client software and over 30 test hotspots located in a single location in Bern, Switzerland....Alcatel-Lucent Picks Up Swiss Network Management Contract Switzerland's Sunrise Communications has agreed to outsource the operation of its mobile, fixed and data networks to Alcatel-Lucent as of August 1, 2008. The contract includes the transfer of 290 employees, and is valued at approximately EUR340 million (US$530 million) over 7 years, depending on the final scope of the project....Ericsson Wins Swiss HSPA Expansion Contract Ericsson has signed an agreement with the Swiss operator Sunrise to expand its WCDMA/HSPA network in a number of cities across Switzerland. ...Yet more iPhone announcements - this time from long expected participant, Switzerland's Swisscom. In an increasingly typically short statement the Swiss operator confirmed that it would be offering Apple's iPhone later this year.... |