Articles tagged with: Iden and Telefonica
Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity
..elecom operators have reacted by reducing their capex budgets, cutting dividend and share buyback payments and entering into infrastructure-sharing agreements in an effort to preserve cash. Fitch believes that a combination of reasonable levels more
Related Tags: fitch-ratings, deutsche-telekom, telecom-italia, kpn, portugal-telecom, vodafone, capex, wind, eu
Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services
.. of the spectrum to be granted in the terms of MNO tenders Signals identifies Virgin Mobile and local companies aeiou, GVT, Sercomtel and SKY as some of the operators that could in future operate as MVNOs. more
Related Tags: wimax, 3g, signals-telecom-consulting, mobile-number-portability, wi-fi, rcom, mts, hspa, ovi, virgin-mobile, mvno, ict, rural, itu, number-portability, Brazil
EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
..bile operators have followed up on the four areas of action identified in the 2007 code: 80% of operators have put in place measures to control children's access to adult content. However, only 41% of operators stated that they actively more
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Telefonica's Chairman Due in Court on Insider Trading Allegations
.. purchases in 1998 by the stock exchange found that there was no evidence of malpractice, and this was supported by a separate investigation in 2002. A later lawsuit launched by a consumer association also failed to prove that insider trading h more
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There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market
.. terms of market share confirmed this view that was first evident from the lack of sustained success in Virgin Mobile and other low cost MVNOs in UK. Yoigo can become a viable MNO in the mobile market by redefining its value proposition to tap more
Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, sim, social-networking, eu, 3-uk, vodafone, mvno, o2, tim, wind, lte, outsourcing, ovi, yoigo, 3, movistar, play, UK
Telefonica Selects Level 3 for North American Network
..ering this solution for them," said Andrew Crouch, president of Level 3's Wholesale Markets Group. "The extensive reach of our network across North America provides the redundancy and scale necessary to support the demands of Telefoni more
Related Tags: sim, eu, lte, ovi, 3, level-3, partner, andrew, bandwidth
Dot com diet keeps telecoms in good shape
..dy at record lows." An identical trend can be seen on a global level. Three mega deals took place in 2006, causing a significant peak in deal activity for that year. The deals in question were AT&T/Bell south (€58bn), the €25bn de-merger of more
Related Tags: sim, intel, rsa, ict, itu, o2, wind, capex, ovi, sharp
NII Holdings - Revenues and Profits Hit Record Levels
NII Holdings, the Latin American iden specialist, has matched the record customer intake seen in Q2, adding 395k subscribers to take its total to 5.84m. This compares with 4.39m one year earlier and 3.19m in Q3 06. The company operates five networks - in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Chile - the first three of which offer services that are directly competitive with the local cellular operators. more
Related Tags: arpu, rsa, Argentina
America Movil Seizes the Lead as Argentina's Penetration nears 100%
The number of mobile connections in Argentina is almost certain to have surpassed 40m at the time of writing, having reached 39.47m at the end of Q1 08. Furthermore, if Q2 net additions match last year's figure, then penetration will have broken the 100% barrier by the end of the current quarter, with Q1's figure standing at 97.3%. more
Related Tags: personal, nextel, Argentina
Mexico Q1 '08 - Telefonica Gains Ground, but Telcel Maintains Dominance
The Mexican mobile market closed the quarter with 71.041m customers, up 2.345m on the quarter and 11.55m on the year. A majority of the new customers connected to Telcel, the America Movil subsidiary, taking its total base to 51.5m, or 72.5% of the total. This dominance is quite unprecedented and no other operator in any competitive market comes close to matching TelcelĂ's dominance. That the market has been competitive or supposedly competitive ever since mobile communications were first introduced nearly 20 years ago makes the situation all the more extraordinary. more
Related Tags: arpu, america-movil, nextel, Mexico
