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September
The seven winning bidders in India’s 3G auction have been allocated spectrum, and the government has set a roll-out timetable
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Carlos Slim’s Telmex is planning to invest heavily in optical fibre networks to boost residential internet speeds to 20 megabits
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Paul Reynolds tells Global Telecoms Business that two separate companies, one owning infrastructure and one running services, would be worth 30% more to shareholders
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Reynolds explains plan to split of Telecom NZ into separate network and services companies
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Sprint’s board is said to be considering allowing Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA to invest in WiMax operator Clearwire
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Telstra is doubling the peak speed of its 3G services to 42 megabits a second, but only for half the Australian population
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Three of Thailand’s three operators are to bid for 3G licences, while a fourth opts to create an MVNO
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August
Samsung says it is supplying LTE equipment and phones to MetroPCS for a launch of US services in September
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Malaysia’s Maxis is to build a fibre-to-the-home network using equipment from Huawei
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Gothenburg now has LTE and will be joined by over 200 other towns and cities in Sweden by the end of 2011
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A new cable serving west Africa is to be extended from Portugal to the UK following a contract with Alcatel-Lucent
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As broadband data is putting pressure on operators’ backhaul networks, Ciena CEO Gary Smith discusses the scale that his acquisition of Nortel’s business will give
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Nokia Siemens Networks has won a deal to supply LTE-ready 3G equipment to Indian operator Tata
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Huawei and ZTE appear to have won Indian government approval to sell equipment to local operations, say reports
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Telenor has signed a deal with ZTE to build a unified mobile network delivering 2G, 3G and LTE
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Alcatel-Lucent says it is expecting the first of a number of Indian orders for broadband equipment to arrive in 2011
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Inmarsat has won a $340m contract from LightSquared to provide the satellite capacity for its US mobile network
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US federal authorities have started handing out grants under the broadband stimulus scheme, with $1.5bn due by the end of September
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Qualcomm is seeking Indian government approval for new wireless companies in which it is investing $164m
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July
First carriers sign up to exchange international ethernet services, says new CEO
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China Telecom looks for IT investment opportunities in European market, says the head of its EMEA business
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A scaled-down plan by BSNL to add 5.5 million lines of GSM capacity has attracted bids from Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and NSN
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A group of South Korean companies has won a $1bn deal to build a national and international network for Saudi Arabia’s ITC
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The Uzbekistan regulator has given TeliaSonera-backed UCell a licence to operate 4G services using LTE
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China Mobile and China Telecom have signed up Alcatel-Lucent to build FTTH networks
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AIS will invest $1.4bn over the next three years on building its 3G network across Thailand
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Main One, the cable linking Europe to the west African states of Nigeria and Ghana, has signed up its first customers
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Chinese operators are to invest $18bn in 3G technology this year alone, according to a government statement
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Etisalat has named Alcatel-Lucent to expand the Tigo network in Sri Lanka that it bought for $207m in 2009
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to run LightSquared, a satellite-based mobile phone network owned by Harbinger private equity and run by Sanjiv Ahuja
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A new satellite project, Harbinger Global Wireless, is seeking $400m in loans to set up a high-speed wireless network
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Motorola co-CEO Greg Brown says selling its mobile network infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks “purifies the portfolio”
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The Federal Communications Commission is trying to reduce restrictions on use of satellite frequencies for broadband internet
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Telefónica’s O2 operation in Europe has launched cheap international calling following the group’s takeover of Jajah in January
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Nokia Siemens Networks is reported to be in talks with Motorola about buying its network equipment business for $1.3bn
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ADC CEO Bob Switz negotiates a sale to Tyco Electronics for $1.25bn in cash
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Sprint chief Dan Hesse says company may adopt LTE alongside WiMax venture with Clearwire
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India’s state run operator BSNL is set to win a government deal to improve rural broadband services using WiMax
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Yota and Rostelecom have been given permission to switch operations from WiMax to LTE, using existing frequency allocations
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Huawei is bidding to sell kit to Sprint, say reports from the US, but government authorities may step in to block the deal
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Vivendi’s French mobile and fixed line operation, SFR, is to invest €1.5bn in network enhancements this year
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Deal to buy 287 base stations from Telefónica starts American Tower’s operations in Chile
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Hong Kong Broadband speeds up FTTH services
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India’s MTNL is looking for revenue-sharing deals for WiMax equipment so it can use its new broadband licences
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CEO Manoj Kohli announces plan for ex-Zain unit
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Openreach local loop order for fibre programme
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Renesas Electronics, set up only in April 2010, is to buy Nokia’s wireless modem unit for $200m
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Si.mobil, part of Telekom Austria’s Mobilkom Austria, has picked Nokia Siemens Networks to improve its backhaul network
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Chinese vendor sole supplier for transformation
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Finnish export credit agency offers loan
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MainOne links Ghana and Nigeria with western Europe
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$795m in grants and loans to expand access
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Indian operator buys Mumbai-based company
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Nokia Siemens Networks is supplying a service to Vodafone Portugal to converge circuit-switched and data services
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Cloud platform for infrastructure as a service
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June
Main line to Ghana and Nigeria ready to enter service in July
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South Korea’s SK Telecom is spending $100m on buying a 25% stake in WiMax operator Packet One of Malaysia
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Security concerns mean the US government has stopped Emcore selling a controlling stake in its optical fibre business to a Chinese investor
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Shaw Communications is the latest Canadian company to plan a mobile network, with an equipment contract for Nokia Siemens Networks
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Indonesian operator in infrastructure deal
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Zain Kenya, now owned by Bharti, has become the third Kenyan operator to win a 3G licence, following Safaricom and Telkom Kenya
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Mikhail Shamolin, CEO of Russian mobile operator MTS, wants to take over the 38% of Comstar the company does not already own
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A combined company will own 80,000 mobile phone towers across India, shared by 10 operators
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US president Barack Obama is planning to auction spectrum used by federal agencies, doubling the amount available for commercial use
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Australia’s National Broadband Network Company will use Alcatel-Lucent equipment, announces senior executive Kevin Brown
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Canadian operator Public Mobile is building a $350m network using ZTE kit with the aid of a loan from Export-Import Bank of China
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France Telecom’s majority owned operation in Kenya is to build its first 3G network, competing with Vodafone’s Safaricom
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TeliaSonera has awarded Nokia Siemens Networks a contract for LTE base stations in Gothenburg
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Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo plans to fill gaps in its LTE service, due to be launched this year, by offering femtocells
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France Telecom is to invest $632m in Switzerland after the regulator banned it from merging with TDC’s Sunrise
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Bharti Airtel has announced plans to spend $100m on upgrading the Ugandan network it acquired from Zain
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to supply Airvana femtocells to US rural operator Mosaic Telecom
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The US regulator is proposing to change the category of broadband providers, giving in new powers to set rules on internet services
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China Telecom is to connect with Nepal Telecom using an optical fibre cable, improving the landlocked country’s international connections
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Australian incumbent Telstra has agreed to work with the government’s planned National Broadband Network
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Telekom Malaysia is to build a national high speed broadband network with equipment from ZTE
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Retail group Hamashbir has won a licence to set up an MVNO in Israel, but it needs to negotiate rates with infrastructure owners
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Megacable is to take over another Mexican cable operator, Grupo Omnicable, and has joined a bid to buy optical fibre on the national electricity grid
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The government of Spain has announced plans to reallocate spectrum to expand mobile broadband services
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Colombian operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones has won the country’s spectrum auction and plans to start mobile broadband services
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Etisalat is to invest $1.4bn in its Egyptian operation, Etisalat Misr, to compete with Mobinil and Vodafone
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Indian oil and gas company Reliance Industries is to compete against former sister company Reliance Communications after buying a broadband operator
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Huawei has won business from Wind in Italy to build 3G and 4G mobile networks and will set up a joint lab
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Three companies — Grupo Televisa, Telefónica and Megacable Holdings — have combined to bid for fibre owned by the Mexican state power company
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Thailand’s National Telecommunications Commission will refarm unused frequencies for new services, says commission member Natee Sukolrat
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Satellite company Iridium picks Thales Alenia to build 81 new satellites and arranges funds
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FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is advising his Indian opposite number on broadband strategy
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Rene Meza, head of Zain’s operation in Kenya, shortly to be acquired by Bharti Airtel, is launching 3G services next month
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May
Chilean regulator Subtel is to auction frequencies for 4G broadband internet services in 2011
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Grupo Televisa’s consortium says it will invest $107m in fibre infrastructure if it wins a bid for capacity on the state power utility’s network
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América Móvil boss Carlos Slim and 13 other companies are competing for 3G capacity in Mexico’s spectrum auction
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Vodafone Qatar is complaining that a deal between Virgin’s Richard Branson and Qatar Telecom breaks its licence terms
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World Cup sponsor MTN has a two-year deal with Motorola to improve its network performance
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Cable & Wireless’s Lime operation in the Caribbean is building a new high-capacity submarine cable
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BSNL is restricting tenders for GSM network expansion to Western vendors and has excluded Huawei and ZTE, CEO Kuldeep Goyal says
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Yota has dropped plans to expand its WiMax operations in Russia and will use LTE instead, the company says
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KPN dropped out of Germany’s spectrum auction but Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica are paying €4.4bn for 4G capacity
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Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular are the provisional winners of India’s 3G auction
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Malaysia’s Maxis is to spend $427m on improving 3G coverage from 60% to 80% of the country
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Telefónica is increasing its investment in Brazil from $1.86bn in 2009 to $2.77bn this year, the company announced
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Neil Montefiore, CEO of Starhub in Singapore, tells Global Telecoms Business that half the phones it sells every month are iPhones, and it needs to take urgent action to cater for the data explosion
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SFR and Orange have beaten Iliad in the auction for the remaining French 3G frequencies, with capacity for MVNOs
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Management World 2010: China Mobile has been able to cut capex by 85% in switching from TDM to IP networks, VP Liu Aili tells opening session of Management World
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Management World 2010: Slovak Telecom tells TMForum event that it has achieved 20% operational cost reduction in Amdocs OSS project
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Management World 2010: Telcordia has launched a system to allow operators to bring together backhaul, fixed and enterprise network investments
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Ericsson has won a managed services deal with Telefónica in Brazil, which includes running its network operations centre in São Paulo
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Grupo Televisa’s consortium, including Telefónica and Megacable, has won the government of Mexico’s auction to operate a new fibre national network
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AT&T plans to introduce HSPA+ in the US later in 2010, competing with T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Clearwire
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Mobilicity is new 3G carrier in Toronto, increasing the level of competition in the Canadian market, which still has only 66% penetration
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There’s about to be a shakeout in the rapidly developing broadband market in Brazil, following Vivendi’s takeover of GVT after a hotly contested battle with Telefónica
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BT CEO Ian Livingston says the company plans to spend £1 billion on expanding fibre coverage to 66% of UK households
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There’s about to be a shakeout in the rapidly developing broadband market in Brazil. Octavio Sampaio looks at how the two will fight it out
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Rural US carriers could bring LTE to unserved areas in a licensing agreement with Verizon Wireless, which plans service launches this year
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Reports from Indonesia suggest that the government wants to adopt LTE in its 4G strategy in place of WiMax
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Reliance Globalcom seeks vendors to upgrade longhaul ethernet services to 100 gigabits
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South African mobile operator Cell C has given Nokia Siemens Networks a contract to upgrade its network
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Iliad, Orange and SFR are competing for the last two allocations of 3G spectrum in France, while Bouygues did not bid
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The Vatican City has given Telecom Italia a contract to build a fibre-optic network covering the Pope’s main sites around Rome
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Three banks are lending $1.3bn to Etisalat’s Egyptian operation to fund network investment over the next three years
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ZTE is to build the next phase of a WiMax network in Malaysia for Packet One, at a cost of $76m
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BT is planning to increase coverage of its UK superfast broadband network from 40% of homes by 2013 to 66% of homes
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Indonesian operator Indosat is raising $500m in a bond offering and has launched 42 megabit HSPA+ using equipment from Ericsson
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Canadian broadband operator Axia NetMedia is working with Vodafone to bid for a national fast broadband project in New Zealand
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Four operators have won spectrum to operate LTE services in Denmark and at least two want to start this year
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Etisalat in Egypt has launched high-speed broadband services at 42 megabits a second using Huawei equipment
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FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to announce net neutrality rules, which will limit US operators’ ability to favour some internet content
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Vodafone, Wind and Swisscom’s Fastweb are collaborating to build a rival Italian broadband network to Telecom Italia’s
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A total of 19 companies, including France Telecom Orange, have taken the first stage leading to bidding for a third mobile licence in Mozambique
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BT has signed up Alcatel-Lucent to increase the capacity of its 21st Century Network all-IP project
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France Telecom has launched Tunisia’s first 3G network in association with a local group, Investec
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Brazilian operator Telebras is being revived by the government to take part in a national broadband programme
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Vodafone has won a new fixed-line licence in Qatar, allowing it to extend services to new areas of the Gulf state
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KT is pushing vendors Samsung and Intel to create an alliance to stimulate Korea’s home-grown version of WiMax
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The company that last month recruited Sanjiv Ahuja to build a satellite/terrestrial 4G network in the US is talking to T-Mobile USA about a wholesale deal
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April
Rwanda is planning to offer a fourth mobile licence, competing against Tigo and others, when market conditions permit
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Former Sprint and Clearwire executive Wing Lee is offering $1 million in prizes to stimulate applications and devices for his new WiMax network
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The Main One cable, due to link Nigeria to Europe from June, has signed an agreement with Seacom to complete a fibre ring around Africa
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Huawei and ZTE are among Chinese equipment makers whose products have been banned from Indian networks, in a government ruling
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Former Sprint and Clearwire executive Wing Lee is now running YTL Communications, a project to build an $850 million nationwide — and mobile — WiMax 4G network across Malaysia. YTL is offering $1 million in prizes to stimulate new applications and devices
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Telefónica, headed by Cesar Alierta, has been trying out NEC’s LTE equipment on its network in Argentina
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants to revive former telecom monopoly Telebras and is considering setting charges of $131 a month for one megabit service
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The world’s largest operator, China Mobile, has awarded ZTE a contract to build an IMS core network on which it can run converged fixed and mobile services
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Tamin Telecom has won Iran’s third mobile licence, after two earlier attempts to award the licence to Etisalat and Zain were withdrawn
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Mexican operator pulls out of auction and considers reselling agreement with Telefónica for mobile services
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Lawrence Baker of Paul Budde Communication analyses the latest data on the US market for fixed and mobile services, including broadband internet and voice over IP
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Mobile TeleSystems in Russia has outsourced operations in 16 regions to Nokia Siemens Networks
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The number of mobile subscribers has increased over 2009 in six countries although Italy and the Netherlands have shown a decline, writes Margrit Sessions
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Cable operators plus KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile have emerged as winners of the Dutch spectrum auction, but prices have not yet been disclosed
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Bidding for frequency blocks in Germany’s spectrum auction has reached €562bn, with KPN’s E-Plus offering a total of €188m for two blocks
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Telstra is planning to increase the price it charges rivals for wholesale access to its local loop
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Researchers at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs say that they can boost commercial DSL speeds to 300 megabits within a few years — faster than fibre will reach all homes
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One of Nortel’s last operations, its joint venture with South Korea’s LG to make mobile equipment, is being bought by Ericsson
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Qatar’s QTel has appointed Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade its 3G network and is seeking $2 billion in loans
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The Brazilian government is reviving a project to let Telebras manage its broadband internet programme for the poor
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Australia’s Optus, owned by Singtel, is expected to start trials of LTE services in May, with NSN as the vendor
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BT’s UK rival TalkTalk is to expand its fixed broadband service from 1,700 to 300 exchanges, using its own optical network
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Carlos Slim’s Mexican companies are investing $880m in Claro, their fixed and mobile operations in Peru
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to expand the operations of MBNL, the shared network operated by T-Mobile and 3 in the UK
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Thailand’s telecoms regulator NTC has appointed commissioner Natee Sukonrat to examine ways of licensing WiMax and other wireless services in 2011
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Chinese equipment vendor ZTE says it hopes to sell 2-3 million handsets into the Indian market
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The idea of open access networks has been around for years, but Singapore, Australia and a few regional authorities are warming to schemes that allow all operators to offer fast broadband services
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Nokia Siemens Networks has won two contracts with Telefónica O2 to expand its mobile network in Germany
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Paul Reynolds, head of Telecom New Zealand, is considering proposals to split the domestic company in two, and is reviewing bids for AAPT, its Australian subsidiary
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The owner of Bell Canada is expected to sell its stake in newspaper and TV businesses in order to fund network upgrades
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to expand Cable & Wireless Communications’ 3G network, Sure, on the island of Guernsey
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TIM Participacoes, the Brazilian mobile operation of Telecom Italia, will invest $1.42bn in 2010, up from last year’s $1.23bn
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Rinaldi Firmansyah, head of Telkom Indonesia, has hired Macquarie to advise on restructuring and expanding its tower subsidiary
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Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan is testing LTE in association with Nokia Siemens Networks
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Mobile operators are concerned about the demands on the network that LTE will create, while WiMax operators are enthusiastic about rural opportunities
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Canadian cable TV group Shaw Communications is planning to launch a mobile phone service by late 2011
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How will operators support the demands that LTE data will put on the rest of their networks? They are concerned about meeting customers’ expectations
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There are 500 WiMax 4G broadband networks in operation and the market is finally growing after Intel’s investment stimulus of $2 billion-plus
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China’s minister of industry and information technology, Li Yizhong, wants to expand the number of 3G customers from 16m to 150m by next year
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FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has to rethink the agency’s US broadband strategy after a court ruled against its authority to set internet rules
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India’s auction of 3G licences starts today, with six mobile companies competing for three allocations and expected to pay $11bn between them
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AT&T is to spend $1bn on network expansion in 2010, says company’s business solutions president Ron Spears
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Mozambique’s minister for telecoms, Paulo Zucula, says it wants tenders for a third mobile network by early July
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TeliaSonera plans to launch LTE in 25 cities in Sweden and four in Norway, following a commercial launch in Stockholm and Oslo
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Telefónica’s Movistar network in Spain is being upgraded to HSPA+ at 42 megabits a second, with a contract from NSN
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Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph is asking Kenya’s regulator for approval to start testing 4G services
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March
Bharti Airtel in India has ordered $1.3 billion worth of network expansion equipment and work from Ericsson
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China Mobile and China Unicom have ordered equipment worth $1.8 billion from Ericsson for mobile network upgrades
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Verizon is stopping building its FiOS fibre-to-the-home service in new areas and will concentrate instead on selling services in existing areas
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Mobile operator Vodafone Qatar has won a licence to operate fixed line services, though its shareholding may be just 25-30%
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Reports say Vodafone and Verizon are talking about shareholdings in their jointly owned US mobile operation Verizon Wireless again
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Regional US operator Qwest is wanting $350 million of federal money to help fund a $467 million project to build rural internet access
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Following the separation of C&W, Phil Male of Cable & Wireless Worldwide explains how the newly independent business is integrated like never before
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The UK regulator is saying that BT should offer access to fibre and ducts to rival operators
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Saudi Telecom has awarded Alcatel-Lucent a contract for LTE trials in the second half of 2010
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With 51% of fixed provider Comstar, MTS is preparing to sell bundled services through its own outlets. Mikhail Gerchuk hints at the new strategy
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Telefónica and two Mexican media groups, Grupo Televisa and Megacable Holdings, will work together to bid for access to the Mexican electricity company’s dark fibre
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BT’s international wholesale division, Global Telecom Markets, is considering offering advanced services based on its Ribbit acquisition in Silicon Valley to other operators
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UK prime minister Gordon Brown is preparing for the imminent general election by promising super-fast broadband to every household
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MobiTel in Cambodia has signed a network expansion deal worth $200m with Huawei
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Qualcomm’s Indian head Kanwalinder Singh says the company will bid for broadband wireless licences in India
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US operator Sprint will launch its first 4G phone, using Clearwire’s WiMax network, at the CTIA show in Las Vegas next week
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Russian telecoms group Svyazinvest, which includes Rostelecom and Sibirtelecom, has decided to use LTE for its fourth generation services
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NTRA, the Egyptian regulator, is enforcing a ban on Skype and other IP calls over mobile internet connections
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CEO Srinath Narasimhan is re-investing the cash from that wholesale voice in wireless networks and value-added services in India and other emerging markets
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Motorola is close to taking a decision on splitting the company into a handset business and a separate network infrastructure operation, which may be sold off
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Brazilian operator Oi plans to invest up to $2.2 billion in capex in 2010, down from the 2009 total of $2.9 billion
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Orange has agreed three new mobile virtual network operator deals in the UK through an MVNO aggregator partner
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Telstra has raised €1 billion in bonds as the Australian senate postpones a vote on splitting the company
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The Federal Communications Commission in the US wants 100 million homes to have 100 megabit internet by 2020
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The Japanese government is considering splitting off NTT’s fibre service into an open access network
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Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority has delayed the deadline for applications for two new licences until April 15
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The Brazilian government wants Telebrás to manage a programme to build a national fibre network to improve broadband access
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A group of New Zealand entrepreneurs are planning a cable to increase the country’s capacity to California and Australia
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Verizon’s capex will be about $17 billion in 2010, with a strong cash flow, mainly from Verizon Wireless, according to CFO John Killian
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Belgium is offering a fourth licence for 3G services and is expected to follow with licences for LTE and WiMax capacity
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Ciena, headed by Gary Smith, is to raise $250 million to fund its purchase of Nortel Networks’ metro ethernet unit
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Private equity company Abry Partners is to buy US cable and broadband operator RCN for $531 million plus $730 million debt
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Tata Communications, headed by Srinath Narasimhan, and Qatar Telecom are to extend the Tata Global Network into the Gulf
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper are working together to offer security systems for fixed and mobile networks
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Vivendi is hoping to secure mobile frequency spectrum for its new Brazilian acquisition, GVT
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NTT is using wholesale provider TTK to deliver its services to customers across Russia
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Belgian cable operator Telenet plans to invest in LTE technology for its own mobile network
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The European Commission has started a public consultation on updating the EU’s law on whether broadband should be included in universal access rules
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The Federal Communications Commission is expected to ask for $25 billion, double earlier estimates, on its US national broadband plan
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Mike Quigley of Australia’s open-access company has announced the first five areas where it will build fibre-to-the-home fibre networks
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The Australian federal government has taken an equity stake of $89m in the first state rollout of its national broadband network
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Ericsson is to supply VDSL2 equipment to TeliaSonera so it can boost its copper network in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
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February
Aircel, which operates in 18 regions of India, will use proceeds from sale of its towers to expand into five more zones to give nationwide coverage
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UK cable company Virgin Media is increasing its broadband speed from 50 to 100 megabits a second
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Emirati operator Du, which made a $143m profit in 2009, plans to invest $587m in enhancing its network in 2010
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Genband has won control of Nortel’s carrier VoIP business for $182 million after no other companies bid in an auction
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Telekom Austria is to merge the businesses of its fixed and mobile operations in its home country, aiming at €100m annual savings
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YTL, headed by Wing Lee, is about to launch a nationawide WiMax network in Malaysia
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The Philippines telecom regulator will allow existing 3G licence holders to bid for the country’s last 3G licence
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Telefónica is to increase Brazilian investment from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $1.9 billion this year
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The government of Peru is planning a $260 million package to stimulate rural investment in mobile telecoms
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to supply and manage mobile operations for Aircel in India in three areas
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Australia’s minister for broadband, Stephen Conroy, has launched the first construction work on the country’s planned National Broadband Network
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Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs is to work with Telecom Italia’s labs on LTE developments such as picocells
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Alcatel-Lucent is to take over network operations and 3,000 staff of Bulgarian operator BTC
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CDMA operators China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless plus CDMA vendor Qualcomm have finally joined the GSM Association
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The French analyst company says telecoms equipment sales were down 2% in 2009 and handset sales were down 4%
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Verizon Wireless expects to launch LTE services in 25-30 US cities by the end of 2010
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Ericsson’s new CEO Hans Vestberg has announced that the company is launching its own white label app store, as a service to operators
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The GSM Association has won support from 20 operators for an initiative to allow voice calls and roaming over LTE
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The mobile industry is faced with a Titanic-like iceberg of data which could sink many of them by 2015, says NSN’s new CEO, Rajeev Suri
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BT Wholesale is launching a content delivery network to allow ISPs to offer guaranteed quality to consumers
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ISPs are struggling to cope with consumers’ demand for online video. In the UK, BT is responding by launching its own wholesale content network for video.
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The Brazilian government is planning to invest over $10 billion in state-owned telco TeleBras
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France Telecom is to invest €2 billion in fibre networks to homes in Paris and 15 other French cities
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Google is planning to build a limited number of broadband networks in US cities, operating at up to one gigabit a second
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The annual Connectivity Scorecard shows that Sweden has overtaken the US and other Scandinavian countries dominate
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Mobile operators will invest $72 billion in capital expenditure for broadband technologies during 2010, according to the GSM Association
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SingTel’s Australian business, Optus, is refusing to sell its hybrid fibre coax network to the state-controlled National Broadband Network
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Reports from the UK suggest BT is considering plans to open up its cable ducts to rival operators
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Globe Telecom in the Philippines is to spend nearly $500 million in 2010 on expanding its mobile and broadband activities
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Software-defined radio has allowed Telstra’s Hong Kong mobile operator to run 2G and 3G services on the same infrastructure
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Operators in India can save $1.5 billion in 2010 alone from tower sharing, with many companies saving around $300 million each
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UAE operator Du is to spend heavily to expand its network, while agreeing a network sharing deal with rival Etisalat
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A US-based private equity company is to invest $300 million in an Indian operator of mobile phone towers
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US operator Leap Wireless, which sells under the Cricket brand, has appointed advisers to seek a buyer
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January
AT&T is responding to increased demand for its US wireless network — largely from iPhone usage — by committing $18 billion on network improvements
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New Zealand’s incumbent operator is suggesting an alternative solution to the government proposal for a national fibre-to-the-home project
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Manoj Kohli, CEO of Indian operator Bharti Airtel, is seeking bids to take part in a joint venture that will manage its intercity optical fibre network
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The Mexican state electricity utility is to sell off spare fibre capacity on its grid to competitive telecoms operators in the market
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Millicom’s Tigo mobile business in Ghana is to sell 750 of its towers to a specialist infrastructure company, Helios Towers
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The Indian government says that winners of next month’s 3G auction will be able to refinance their licence fees with a long-term overseas loan within a year
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Mobile bandwidth auctions to mark beginning of competition in Costa Rica
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As operators struggle to tune up their backhaul networks to deliver data to smartphone users, Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen believes they can save money by moving to ethernet connections
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Carphone Warehouse in the UK is considering building its own optical fibre network in competition with BT and other operators
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Nextel Mexico, owned by NII in the US, is to bid for 3G spectrum in the country’s forthcoming auction
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The Opposition parties in Australia’s federal parliament have come out against the government proposals to break up Telstra
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AIS, part-owned by SingTel, is to spend $335 million on expanding its network in Thailand in 2010, reaching 15-22 extra cities
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Deutsche Telekom is seeking regulatory approval for wholesale prices for access to its optical fibre network
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The French government is to offer telecoms operators low-interest loans in order to stimulate the growth of fibre to the home
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XConnect is offering a free three-month trial of a new peering service to operators providing high-definition voice services
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Bell Labs president Jeong Kim wants to preserve the freedom that will allow his researchers to continue to deliver disruptive technology
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GTL, an Indian telecoms infrastructure company, is to buy Aircel’s mobile phone towers for $1.8 billion, beating four others to the deal
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According to sources, Singapore Telecommunications is to sell 25% of its Australian operator, Optus, raising around $3.7 billion
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The Indian government has cut from four to three the number of 3G licences that will be auctioned next month
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Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs believes networks should use only 1,000th the energy they do today, and has set up a consortium with 15 other organisations to carry out the necessary research
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Clearwire International, headed by Barry West, has announced plans to build a WiMax network covering the Spanish city of Malaga
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Australian operators Telstra, Optus and Vodafone Hutchison are expected to bid for 4G spectrum to be auctioned by the government
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Indian telecoms operator Aircel is launching its own app store and is selling its 17,000 telecoms towers
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Huawei expects global contracts to rise from $30 billion to $36 billion in 2010, a rise of 20% — though slower than the previous year’s 36% growth