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Articles tagged with: Eu and Capex
Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity
.. oversubscribed and seen a tightening in pricing guidance. European incumbents, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, KPN, and Portugal Telecom along with mobile operator Vodafone have successfully tapped the capital markets to refinanc more
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Majority of MENA Telcos Not Affected by Economic Downturn - So Far
While the financial crisis is darkening the mood of business forecasters around the world, the telecommunications industry in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) shows little inclination to be pessimistic, according to the results of a recent study from the consulting company Detecon International. More than one-third of the industry managers surveyed have yet to notice any negative effects on their core business. more
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Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Technologies to Close the Gap With Fixed Broadband
Mobile operators are expected to fully maximise their high-speed packet access (HSPA) deployments before eventually deploying 3G long-term evolution (LTE). Many operators will leapfrog from HSPA to 3G LTE, as the window of opportunity for HSPA Evolved is insignificant when compared to 3G LTE. more
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Tower Sharing Could Save $8 Billion Over 5 Years in MEA Region
Delta Partners has published a white paper about the potential of network sharing in the MEA region. The paper notes that there are currently over 200,000 mobile network towers in operation across the Middle East and Africa, in which operators invest annually between 10-20% of their revenues to rollout new sites or upgrade existing sites. Operators continue to make large investments in order to upgrade technologies and capacity as well as population coverage, especially in rural Africa. more
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Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion
A new study from ABI Research finds that the worldwide combined OPEX and CAPEX savings from active infrastructure sharing could amount to as much as $60 billion over the next five year period. The study finds that operators could enjoy at least 40% cost savings in addition to those available from passive site sharing. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, 3g, base-station, rural, vodafone, o2, lte, abi-research, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex
Yankee Group Predicts No Capex Growth Until 2011
Yankee Group is predicting that telecommunications carriers globally will show measured caution in capital expenditures (capex) in 2009, decreasing from $284 billion in 2008 to $272 billion this year. Capex, as a percentage of revenue, will decline from 15.2 percent in 2008 to 14.1 percent in 2009, again reflecting conservative but necessary cuts for carriers, but also signaling tough times ahead for vendors. more
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Joint European 100G R&D field trial (100GET) on existing optical platform
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have successfully made a field trial of higher bandwidth optical transmission. Besides others, Ericsson and DT are engaged in the public funded R&D project 100GET, where this test took place. The new technology (delivered in this trial from the Marconi MHL 3000 WDM platform) will accommodate customer's steady growing broadband services in fixed and mobile broadband networks. more
Related Tags: ethernet, deutsche-telekom, itu, ericsson, 112, telekom, bandwidth, Germany
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.
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The case for network sharing gets stronger
Opinion piece by Emeka Obiodu, senior analyst at Ovum
With a mature market, declining voice revenues and now the economic
downturn, the argument for european mobile network operators (MNOs) to share
their networks has never been stronger. Although there have been several
network-sharing initiatives, what is needed is a more coherent commercial and
regulatory framework across the eu to make network sharing the norm rather than
the exception.
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