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Articles tagged with: Bouygues Telecom
French Regulator: Plans Cuts In Mobile Termination Rates
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Arcep, France's telecom regulator, Tuesday outlined new proposals to reduce the wholesale rates that mobile phone network operators charge to connect calls in the country. more
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French Mobile Phone Customer Base Grew 0.7% In 1Q
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Growth in the French mobile phone customer base slowed to 0.7% in the first quarter of 2007 compared with the previous quarter, French telecommunications regulator Arcep said Wednesday. more
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Hunted and Hunter Swap Roles As Telecom M&A Heats Up
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- The hunted are fast becoming the hunters in the consolidation race playing out now among telecom operators in emerging markets. more
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France's telecoms regulator, ARCEP says that it is preparing to issue a fourth 3G license and also consulting on plans to allow WCDMA networks to operate in the existing 2G GSM frequency bands. more
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Mobile Phones as Train Tickets
France's Bouygues Telecom says that it is testing a travel card integrated into a mobile phone in a trial covering the entire Paris mass transit authority (RATP) and Transilien SNCF suburban transit network in the Paris region. This new and innovative use of contactless technology could come into widespread use in the near future. more
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Orange Taps Pantech for 3G Handset
The South Korean handset vendor, Pantech says that it has signed a landmark agreement with France Telecom's Orange to supply branded UMTS phones in France. The agreement with Orange, which is also the largest mobile service carrier in France, with around 23 million subscribers, marks Pantech's first partnership with a Europe-based global mobile operator. more
Nortel Wins French 3G Contract
France's Bouygues Telecom has selected Nortel as one of its suppliers for its national high-speed mobile internet and voice network. The advanced UMTS network, based on Nortel HSDPA technology, is due to go live in early 2007. The new 5-year contract stipulates that Nortel is responsible for rolling out the network in 4 out of 6 of Bouygues Telecom's operational regions in France; including the Western, South Western, Northeastern and Mediterranean regions. more
France Moves Forward in Mobile TV Legislation
France's Bouygues Telecom says that it welcomes the move by the French Council of Ministers to approve the draft bill on the modernisation of audiovisual broadcasting and the television of tomorrow. This text is a necessary first step toward the emergence of mobile television in France. more
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IN BRIEF: Digicel launches French West Indies service
Caribbean mobile operator Digicel has launched service over a GSM platform in the French West Indies markets of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana with an initial investment of US$25mn in the first year, the company said in a statement. more
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Bouygues Executive: Telecom Investment Could Hurt Fiscal Year EBITDA
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Investment in customer acquistion and retention could hurt a key measure of Bouygues Telecom's profitability this year, the company's chief financial officer said Thursday. more
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