Articles tagged with: Sim and Churn

Fitch Downgrades Deutsche Telekom on Guidance Revision, Weak Operating Results

..ures have so far been confined to Poland only. However, given similarities in DT's business models in CEE markets and common macroeconomic issues, Fitch believes pressures in other regional markets are likely to follow. DT's liquidity remains st more

Related Tags: fitch-ratings, deutsche-telekom, eu, arpu, 3g, , tim, ovi, sharp, fitch, pace, 3g-coverage


3 UK to Scrap Top-Up Fee Requirement for Skype Users

Hutchison 3G UK (3 UK) has announced that it will offer unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages at no charge to anyone with a 3 sim card. Starting from next month, there will be no data charges or top-up fees for either contract or pay-as-you-go customers who use Skype on 3's UK network. Anyone with a 3 UK branded Skype-enabled handset will be able to buy a 3 sim and talk as much as they want to other Skype users without ever having to pay another penny.  more

Related Tags: skype, 3-uk, hutchison-3g-uk, voip, sms, social-networking, 3g, , hutchison-3g, 3, email, top-up, UK


Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells

..h it is a likely outcome of a femtocell deployment and has already been proven in other similar FMC product deployments. At a time when there is a great deal of interest surrounding managing the costs associated with the growing uptake of ‘unlim more

Related Tags: , eu, arpu, ict, tim, mts, hspa, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, femtocell, 3, fmc, femtocells, ev-do, indoor


Telus Warns of Falling ARPU Due to Economic Downturn

Canada's Telus has warned that its first quarter wireless segment financial results are expected to be adversely impacted by lower than expected wireless net additions and average revenue per unit (ARPU). Wireless operating results are being impacted by a weak macro-economic environment, reflect the acceleration of a negative trend first observed in the fourth quarter of 2008, and are below TELUS' expectations.  more

Related Tags: , roaming, arpu, iden, telus, push-to-talk, Canada


Mobile phone usage relatively safe from spending cutbacks

When asked about what measures they would take if they had to reduce their personal expenditure in 2009, very few consumers said they would stop using their mobile phone or switch to a cheaper mobile service, but consumer electronics purchases will be hit much more severely, according to a survey of 2,400 consumers across France, Germany and the UK conducted by Canalys in March.  more

Related Tags: text-messaging, itu, gps, iden, vas, mobile-broadband, netbooks, personal, satellite, portable-navigation-device, maps, navigation, music, France


Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown

..s calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. "For the optimistic scenario to come to fruition, wireles more

Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, social-networking, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, os


Ericsson Launches Pixl8r and Social Media Portal

.. operators, the Pixl8r initiative and the Social Media Portal. The technologies together offer simplified sharing of user-generated content between friends across diverse networks. The Pixl8r initiative is an open-standard solution that allows p more

Related Tags: mms, sms, social-networking, xl, ericsson, personal


Femtocell - a Revolutionary Residential Gateway for Fixed-Mobile Substitution

..her than their fixed-line devices at home," says Kumaresan. Femtocells, in simple terms, are personal base stations that reside at customers' premises. Plugged into fixed-line broadband connections, these low-power radio systems provide i more

Related Tags: ethernet, 3g, base-station, mobile-data, arpu, voip, ict, itu, driving, personal, femtocell, landline, base-stations, fmc, femtocells, indoor, option, true


Globe Telecom Q4 2008 Preliminary Results

In advance of full-year disclosure for 2008, Philippine operator Globe Telecom has released preliminary results for the fourth quarter of the year. These show the weakest quarterly performance of 2008, with net additions falling to 0.95m, after 0.96m, 1.46m and 1.01m in the previous three periods. In fact, looking back, in absolute terms the performance was the weakest since Q3 2006, when the Philippine market was recovering from the fallout of the sim-swap era.  more

Related Tags: arpu, ict, globe, Philippines


Subscribe to our free daily newsletter

Search the website  
Top items on cellular-news

Search the website