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Articles tagged with: Alcatel
Costa Rica Asks GSM Subscribers to Switch Off their Phones this Weekend
This weekend, the Costa Rican mobile network operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) is asking its subscribers to turn off their phones on Saturday night as it switches its network from older infrastructure to a newer platform. more
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Malaysian WiMAX operator Passes 80,000th Subscriber
Intel backed Malaysian WiMAX operator, Packet One Networks says that it has surpassed the 80,000 subscriber mark, after one year of rolling out its P1 W1MAX wireless broadband service. more
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Decline in Commercial WiMAX offer to Drive Migration to LTE in Latin America
The economic downturn is impacting on WiMAX deployments in Latin America, reports Signals Telecom Consulting, and in some cases, such as that of UNE in Colombia, it has been negative. more
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Alcatel Lucent Planning 1,000 Job Cuts in France
A French union has claimed that alcatel Lucent is preparing to cut a further 1,000 job in France over the next two years. The unnamed source told Dow Jones Newswires that the job cuts would affect several units, notably administrative and sales positions and some industrial activities. more
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Indian telecom equipment beats downturn; grows 20% to nearly $25 billion
The Indian telecom equipment industry reported a 20% growth in revenues to comfortably cross the US$24 billion mark during FY 2008-09 compared to a 24% growth recorded in the previous financial year (2007-08). Indian trade magazine, Voice&Data said that the result was not surprising because despite overall economic slowdown, India has been witnessing over 10 million month-on-month new mobile subscriber additions, and telecom operators have been buying equipment to expand their networks. more
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3GPP's GERAN elects its new leadership
Research In Motion's Andrew Howell has been elected as the new Chairman of the 3GPP Technical Specification Group for the GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN). more
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Latin America's WiMAX Market to Surpass $1 Billion in Revenues During 2009-2013
Signals Telecom Consulting has published a couple of reports which estimate that Latin America's WiMAX market is to to surpass US$1.04 Billion in revenues during 2009-2013. WiMAX will also account for around 1.8% of broadband connections in the region over the same time frame. more
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Telecom Equipment Market Expected to Suffer a Sharp Downturn in 2009
The global telecommunications equipment market grew by close to 5% in 2008: a moderate rate of growth that involved a shift in the contribution made by handset components and infrastructure hardware reports IDATE. From a geographical standpoint, Asia was the prime source of growth - specifically China and India - which accounts for two-thirds of the increase in sales worldwide, while representing only just over 40% of the total market (and China and India combined accounting for less than 20%). more
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Alcatel-Lucent Writes Off $5 Billion in Assets
alcatel-Lucent has reported its eighth quarterly loss as it wrote down the value of its assets by over US$5 billion. The firm recorded a loss of €3.89 billion (US$5 billion), compared to a loss of €2.58 billion (US$3.35 billion) a year earlier. more
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Huawei Expecting a 46% Jump in 2008 Sales to $23.3 Billion
China's Huawei is anticipated to report a 46% jump in global contract sales for 2008 to US$23.3 billion, according to an internal email seen by the China Business News. Huawei Technologies also forecast sales of more than US$30 billion in 2009, the newspaper said, citing the internal Huawei e-mail dated 2nd January 2009. more
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