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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

Telecom Italia Mobile Lost 1.5 Million Customers in 2008

The Italian market lost a total of 135k customers over the year, with net losses in Q2 and Q4 trumping the smaller net gains in the other two periods. The year closed with a total base of 88.58m, compared to 88.72m, while penetration dropped from 152.6% to 152.4%. more

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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies

..Cosmote, Deutsche Telekom Group, Go Mobile, Hutchison 3G Europe, Jamba!, Mobile Entertainment Forum, Orange Group, KPN, SFR, Telecom Italia, Telefonica Moviles, Telenor, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. More companies have signed since then: Tele2, Mo more

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

Dell Reported to be in Talks for Chinese Smartphones

..uot; Citing unnamed analysts, Reuters said that Dell has not confirmed the plans but is understood to be working on handsets with Chi Mei Communications, a unit of Taiwan electronics giant Hon Hai. A report earlier this year in the Wall Street more

There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market

The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the european market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game. more

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Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators

Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum

The notion of one network is not entirely far-fetched. After the savings of passive sharing have been realised, where can future savngs come from? In our forthcoming report 2020 vision for mobilewe predict that operators will seek increasingly active forms of sharing. Sharing ever more of your infrastructure might sound ridiculous today, but all forms of sharing sounded ridiculous ten years ago. more

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Turning Soldiers' Helmets into a Wireless Mesh Network

..ed out how to make it work!" Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Albert Sciarretta, who assesses new military technologies in urban environments for DARPA, is one of the experts who is impressed by the ISIS system: "It's strong points more

Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share

In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. more

European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession

..a recovery of the average revenue per user (ARPU), a stabilization of operators' market share, and an improvement of their profitability. "Fixed line loss rate should slow down over the next few years, leading to more optimistic valuations of more