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Articles tagged with: Arpu and Itu
DoCoMo Full-Year Profits Down 3.9%
Japan's NTT DoCoMo has reported a dip of 3.9% in its full fiscal year profits to reach ¥471.9 billion (US$4.93 billion), compared to ¥491.2 billion in the previous year. The average expected by analysts had been a rise in profits to around ¥499.5 billion, according to a Dow Jones Newswires report. Operating income saw a slight rise to ¥831 billion due to a decrease in cost of equipments resulting from decreased number of handsets sold. more
Related Tags: docomo, tim, mvno, 3g, Japan
Verizon Communications Quarterly Profit up 5.3%
Verizon Communications has reported that its first-quarter revenues jumped 11.6 percent to US$26.6 billion, compared with the first quarter 2008 - largely thanks to the acquisition of Alltel earlier this year. Excluding the Alltel boost, revenues would have grown by 3.3 percent. more
Related Tags: verizon, alltel, verizon-wireless, lte, sim, USA
Deutsche Telekom Issues Profits Warning - May Write Down T-Mobile Value
Deutsche Telekom has issued a profits warning, and now expects adjusted EBITDA in 2009 to be 2 to 4 percent below last year. The company is now expecting to post EBITDA in the range of EUR18.7 billion - EUR19.1 billionn (US$24.7 billionn) after an initial forecast of EUR19.5 billion. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, ptc, 3g, pops, , prepay, eu, roaming, t-mobile-usa, ict, tim, lte, ovi, t-mobile-uk, sharp, ote, telekom, Germany
Top 22 Operators Account for 50% of Total WiMAX Subscribers
The top 22 WiMAX operators worldwide will contribute nearly 2.5 million subscribers by the end of 2009 - up from 1.24 million today - and close to 4 million by the end of 2010 according to the latest research report from Maravedis. more
Related Tags: wimax, ict, clearwire, tim, lte, maravedis, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, far-eastone, compete, dongles, microwave, bsnl, uq-communications, femtocells, partner, bandwidth
Canada Sees Lowest 4th-Quarter Gain Since 1997
Despite the fact that the Canadian mobile market is probably the least developed in the Western world, with a penetration rate of just 63.9% at the end of 2008, it performed poorly in the fourth quarter of the year. Quarterly net additions stood at just under 410k, down from 580k in Q4 07. In fact, this was the smallest fourth-quarter gain since 1997. More worryingly still, this was the first year since 1990 that fourth-quarter net additions were not the highest of the year: the Q3 08 increase was more than 27% higher than the Q4 08 figure at 520k. more
Related Tags: mts, ovi, telus, orascom, bell, Canada
Mobile Banking is Emerging as a New Revenue Stream for Mobile Operators
Mobile banking is a budding service in Latin America and is expected to catch on in countries such as Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where the economic and political condition is relatively stable. Success in the mobile banking market will help mobile operators shore up their average revenue per user (arpu) even when the mobile voice traffic slows down. more
Related Tags: sim, sms, mobile-data, ovi, personal, mobile-banking, wap, Chile
Landlines Give in to Mobile for Moldovans
A report from the Moldovan telecoms regulator, Anrceti has said that in 2008, the number of fixed subscribers increased, compared to 2007, by 346,900 or by 3.2%, coming up 1.114 million. This is the lowest rate of increase in the recent years. more
Related Tags: orange, 3g, lte, Moldova
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession according to Arthur D. Little - Exane BNP Paribas joint study "reviving the fixed line" predicts increase in incumbents' valuations of up to 27% over the period 2008-15 more
Related Tags: eu, ict, wind, lte, arthur-d.-little, mobile-broadband, comcast, satellite, sfr, tele2, billing
Fitch Places WIND Hellas' Ratings on Negative Watch on Liquidity Concerns
Fitch Ratings has placed the ratings of Greek mobile operator, WIND Hellas
Telecommunications, on Rating Watch Negative due to liquidity concerns, which
are mainly related to seasonal working capital outflows in H109.
more
Related Tags: eu, fitch-ratings, wind, capex, termination-rates, wind-hellas, weather, mtr, mobile-termination-rates, Greece
NII Holdings Full-Year Revenues Up 30%
NII Holdings, which operates Nextel branded networks in Latin and Southern America has reported that it added 1.47 million new customers in 2008, and ended the year with 6.3 million customers - a rise of 31%. more
Related Tags: 3g, nextel, smart