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Articles tagged with: Wind and Kpn
Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity
..an TMT group. "Many telecom companies have been keen to take advantage of the open window by securing early refinancing flexibility even though financing costs have escalated." Recent demand for telecom paper has remained strong as mos more
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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
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Ericsson Profits Rise - Misses Sales Forecast
Ericsson has reported that its Q2 pre-tax profits rose to SEK9.3 (US$1.4) billion from SEK8.3 billion in the same period a year ago. Sales totaled SEK47.6 billion in the second quarter, just missing a SEK47.8 billion forecast. Gross margin was stable sequentially and up 0.4%-points year-over-year. The operating margin increased sequentially, excluding Sony Ericsson, as a result of increased sales and a completed streamlining of the former Marconi operations. more
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50 Largest Telecommunications Service Providers for 2006
The Eastern Management Group has released the names of the World's 50 Largest Telecommunications Service Providers for 2006. Compilation of the list is an annual joint effort between the firm's two largest and oldest practices. The Service Provider Consulting Practice assists businesses to establish and manage distribution channels and channel partners that sell to service providers throughout the world; while the Service Provider Market Research Practice performs ongoing tracking of all of the world's telecommunications service providers, in more than 200 countries and territories. more
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O2 Considered Acquisition Of Amena, Wind-CEO"
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- O2 PLC, the U.K. mobile telecommunications company, Thursday said it considered acquiring both Spain's Amena and Italian operator wind when those assets were for sale. more
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mmO2 and DoCoMohave signed a long-term agreement under which O2 will launch the i-mode mobile internet service in the UK, Germany and Ireland. Under the terms of the agreement, O2 is licensed by DoCoMo to offer the i-mode capability to the 22 million customers of its 2/2.5G and 3G mobile communications networks. more
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Greece's Cosmote has signed up to license the i-mode wireless internet service from Japan's DoCoMo. The two leading mobile operators have signed today an agreement, under which Cosmote will offer its i-mode service over its 2.5G GPRS network and 3G UMTS network, with DoCoMo providing its know-how, technology and patents. more
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Third tier operators form alliance
Nine of Europes smaller mobile operators have announced the formation of a new mobile alliance. Amena (Spain), O2 (Germany, UK and Ireland), One (Austria), Pannon GSM (Hungary), sunrise (Switzerland), Telenor Mobil (Norway) and wind (Italy) signed a formal agreement in Munich, Germany. more
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Japan's DoCoMo and the Italian GSM network operator, wind Telecomunicazioni have announced a strategic i-mode partnership in the Italian market to launch i-mode services on wind's GPRS network. The agreement also introduces wind into the i-mode alliance, the group led by DoCoMo that comprises all the operators that have launched i-mode, and that offers its members the opportunity to market handsets specially adapted for their own services. more
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