Palm has sold its two-millionth Centro smartphone, and is now offering Centro in more than25 countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
According to a recent data by AdMob, further echoes the momentum of Palm’s smallest, lightest and most affordable smartphone. According to the company’s Mobile Metrics report, Palm Centro leapt onto the list of mobile phones worldwide in May as the No. 8 device, and moved up in June to No. 7. AdMob cites the growth of inexpensive phones, such as Palm Centro, as a primary driver in mobile Internet usage.
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- September 10th, 2007
- 2:29 pm
Paraguay’s state-backed fixed line operator Copaco says it expects to have signed up 10,000 broadband internet subscribers by the end of this year. The firm currently has around 6,000 ADSL customers. It says it is launching a new broadband tariff later this month which will offer a fixed number of minutes of internet use each month for around USD20; its existing unlimited use plan costs USD25 a month.Copaco’s commercial director Hugo Sosa says he is confident that the new product will lead to a significant expansion of the company’s broadband subscriber base. Paraguay has one of South America’s lowest internet penetrations, with a market which is still controlled by the state-run incumbent and has little room for alternative providers.
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Telmex Argentina has asked regulatory body SeCom for spectrum in the 450MHz band so it can begin providing fixed wireless services using CDMA450 technology in 25 towns, reports BNamericas citing local newspaper El Cronista. CDMA450-based services are currently available in two towns: El Calafate in Santa Cruz, where provincial cooperative CoTeCal deployed a commercial network in October of last year, and Villa Gesell in the Buenos Aires province, where cooperative Cotel operates the network. The technology is gradually growing in popularity in South America: in January, Telmex opted to roll out CDMA450 in certain rural areas in Mexico rather than WiMAX, and in May Bolivia’s military said it was deploying a CDMA450 fixed wireless network for use in national security issues and for providing rural telephony to isolated regions.
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Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim has surpassed Bill Gates as the world’s richest man. Following big gains in his investment portfolio, Slim’s total worth now stands at about $62.9 billion, says Sentido Comun. By contrast, Microsoft founder and chairman Gates is currently worth about $59.2 billion.
Sentido Comun originally said that Slim was worth $67.8 billion, but on Wednesday published a corrected figure after being contacted by a spokesman for the Mexican billionaire.
The title of world’s richest man is hardly set in stone, as day-to-day stock swings can have a big impact on the rankings. In 2004, a Swedish magazine pegged Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad as the planet’s wealthiest individual.
Slim is the majority investor in America Movil, Latin America’s largest mobile telecom operator. Its share price has climbed 26% in the last three months. Another company in Slim’s portfolio, Telmex, has seen its stock jump 11% over the same period.
Slim also owns numerous other concerns — from banks to construction companies — throughout Mexico and South America. Gates hasn’t been as fortunate from an investment perspective in recent months. Microsoft’s shares are currently trading at roughly the same price at which they began the year — about $30. Gates is the company’s largest individual investor, though his holdings are down to about 8% of Microsoft’s common stock.
Slim’s ascendancy to the top of the world’s financial pyramid bumps Berkshire Hathaway whiz Warren Buffet to third place.
Slim was born in Mexico in 1940 to parents of Lebanese origin. His father reportedly worked as a shopkeeper.
In 1990, Slim led the buyout of Mexican telecom giant Telmex from the Mexican government. He was formerly on the board of directors at Altria and SBC Communications.
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Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom SA (BELG.BT) Wednesday said it has signed a deal to provide network coverage for the Digicel Group, the largest mobile operator in the Caribbean and new entrant to Central and South America.
Belgacom will extend Digicel’s coverage to more than 700 mobile networks across 220 countries worldwide. This Agreement will provide Digicel with worldwide international messaging connectivity through a secure, reliable and scalable environment.
Digicel will be able to fully leverage Belgacom ICS’ unrivaled reach and provide enhanced user experience for subscribers wishing to communicate with SMS on a global basis to any country, network or wireless technology. With operations in more than 22 different markets, Digicel will significantly reduce operational complexity by endorsing a simplified and dedicated hubbing solution for seamless interoperability between mobile networks.
Daniel Kurgan, CEO Belgacom ICS:”This new Group Agreement again confirms the commitment of Belgacom ICS towards mobile operators to continuously enhance their data service offering. For Belgacom ICS, being able to have Digicel Group as a partner means reinforcing our already strong North American footprint with an extension into the Caribbean and Latin American regions”.
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China Telecom recently bought three subsidiaries, namely China Telecom (Hong Kong) International, China Telecom USA and China Telecom System Integration from its parent company for a total of 1.408 billion yuan ($184 million).
Last year, the three subsidiaries made net profit after tax and non-current items of 67.844 million yuan ($8.9 million).
China Telecom (Hong Kong) International mainly deals with international IP-VPN, international private leased circuit, transnational transmission connection and Internet data center services in Asia.
Its target customers include Chinese companies requiring telecom services in the Asia-Pacific area and Asian companies and telecom operators with businesses in China.
China Telecom USA deals with similar business as the Hong Kong-based company in North America and South America. Its target customers include transnational companies and Chinese companies owning overseas businesses and requiring telecom services between Asia and America.
China Telecom System Integration mainly provides system integration services, outsourcing services, application software development and consulting services in China.
Its target customers include telecom operators requiring information technological supports and companies and governmental institutions demanding for integration and outsourcing services, such as ICT integral solutions.
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cVidya Networks, a global leader of telecom data integrity and revenue assurance systems, has recently announced that BT has signed an agreement for implementation of cVidya’s MoneyMap® solution across its UK operations. This agreement follows on successful execution of cVidya’s project with BT in 2006 and subsequent ITT process.
BT created its Revenue Assurance Centre of Excellence two years ago, and has since been reviewing many strategic programmes and has run a number of proof of concepts with various vendors. BT’s objective was to provide a single revenue assurance subscription inventory to better support its internal and external customers worldwide. cVidya was selected due to its leadership in implementing industry standards, as well as its track record for success.
Geoff Hammond, head of BT’s revenue assurance centre of excellence, says: “We have previously managed our own revenue assurance needs through internal developments and legacy applications; however the significant pace of change and product development, combined with the growing operational role within our team meant the only way forward was with an ‘off-the-shelf’ solution.
“Through our stringent ITT selection process it became apparent that the cVidya MoneyMap solution offered the functional capabilities to streamline our revenue assurance processes, and enabled our team to react quickly to new requirements and make major contributions to BT’s goals in the short and long term.”
“We are proud to be selected by BT, and look forward to building on our previous success to strengthen our relationship,” commented Alon Aginsky, CEO at cVidya Networks. “In addition, this decision highlights the added value that MoneyMap can bring even to those service providers who already have a mature revenue assurance operation in place.”
cVidya’s MoneyMap® Revenue Assurance Solution enables operators to correlate and consolidate information from all network, operations and business systems. Through an ongoing process, it automatically detects problem areas in which profit margins are decreasing as a result of revenue leakage, data inconsistencies or resources that are not being used efficiently, leading to substantial revenue loss. Once MoneyMap® identifies the areas of revenue leakage and resource inefficiency, it provides the user with intuitive tools to promptly correct and manage the problems to achieve profit maximization.
About cVidya Networks
cVidya Networks is a global leader and innovative provider of Telecom Revenue Assurance and Data Integrity products.
cVidya’s suite of comprehensive Revenue Assurance solutions assists fixed, mobile, and triple-play communication service providers (CSPs) to continuously improve their bottom line results.
cVidya’s innovative and flexible product, MoneyMap®, provides a unified platform for implementing Process Aware Revenue Assurance solutions, Data Integrity, Risk Management and Rating & Billing Verification within legacy and new service environment, over all types of networks, OSS and BSS.
MoneyMap®’s solutions and cVidya’s highly skilled professional services teams have a proven track record of achieving rapid ROI with major operators, including Cable & Wireless, Telecom Italia, Colt and Bezeq.
cVidya has offices in EMEA, APAC and South America.
cVidya received the Red Herring 100 Europe Award for 2006.
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Mobile WiMAX will connect 8% of the world’s 1.1 billion mobile broadband subscribers by 2012, accounting for nearly 88 million users worldwide, according to Mobile Broadband Wireless: Path toward 4G. This new report from Parks Associates forecasts 52% of these subscribers will be from Asian countries while North and South America will account for another 28%.
“Today, most existing WiMAX deployments are the province of aspiring start-up service providers or incumbent telecom carriers looking to fill coverage gaps,” said Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director of Broadband and Gaming, Parks Associates. “The imminent availability of commercial products and increasing availability of spectrum around the world will change the market for mobile WiMAX and make it viable among major service providers. Taiwan alone will have eight million mobile WiMAX subscribers by 2012.”
According to Mobile Broadband Wireless: Path toward 4G, approximately 160 million cellular subscribers, 6% of all cellular subscribers, were using a mobile broadband service at the end of 2006. Two-thirds of these mobile broadband subscribers used UMTS technology, and the remainder used CDMA EVDO.
“Both mobile WiMAX and UMTS/HSDPA technologies will gain market share in the next several years, at the expense of CDMA EVDO,” Cai said, “TD-SCDMA will also have a meaningful market share due to its strong foothold in China, the largest mobile market in the world.”
Mobile Broadband Wireless: Path toward 4G examines next-generation mobile broadband wireless solutions, including 801.16e/WiBro, FLASH-OFDM, and cellular solutions. It analyzes potential market opportunities, examines the competitive equipment and service industry landscape, shares consumer perspectives on mobile broadband wireless solutions, and provides market-sizing information.
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cVidya Networks, a global leader of Telecom Data Integrity and Revenue Assurance Systems, has launched MoneyMap®/Analytics, a business intelligence tool for Revenue Assurance operations among communications service providers. Through advanced investigation, clustering, and root-cause analysis, this solution complements current Revenue Assurance capabilities to enable an holistic and comprehensive Revenue Intelligence operations and empowers Revenue Assurance teams with Business Intelligence capabilities.
cVidya’s MoneyMap®/Analytics provides a more proactive approach to Revenue Assurance which is becoming more essential as convergence on both the network and corporate level produces a dynamic and heterogeneous data environment. This solution provides a set of operational decision-making tools to improve the overall problem resolution process. MoneyMap®/Analytics provides Revenue Assurance teams with a better understanding of network behavior while identifying the probable cause of potential leakage.
“We are proud to introduce the new MoneyMap®/Analytics solution to the growing Revenue Assurance sector,? commented Alon Aginsky, CEO at cVidya Networks. “These solutions significantly improve overall efficiency, and will certainly become an integral part of any mature Revenue Assurance operations. cVidya, once again proves to be the most innovative vendor in the Revenue Assurance space, continuing to set the standards for Revenue Assurance excellence?
MoneyMap®/Analytics is a business intelligence tool which complements already deployed solutions such as cVidya’s MoneyMap® Suite. cVidya’s MoneyMap® Revenue Assurance Solution enables operators to correlate and consolidate information from all network, operations and business systems. Through an ongoing process, it automatically detects problem areas in which profit margins are decreasing as a result of revenue leakage, data inconsistencies or resources that are not being used efficiently, leading to substantial revenue loss. Once MoneyMap® identifies the areas of revenue leakage and resource inefficiency, it provides the user with intuitive tools to promptly correct and manage the problems to achieve profit maximization.
cVidya Networks will be featuring MoneyMap®/Analytics along with the rest of the MoneyMap® suite in TMW Nice at booth #83.
About cVidya Networks
cVidya Networks is a global leader and innovative provider of Telecom Revenue Assurance and Data Integrity products.
cVidya’s suite of comprehensive Revenue Assurance solutions assists fixed, mobile, and triple-play communication service providers (CSPs) to continuously improve their bottom line results.
cVidya’s innovative and flexible product, MoneyMap®, provides a unified platform for implementing Process Aware Revenue Assurance solutions, Data Integrity, Risk Management and Rating & Billing Verification within legacy and new service environment, over all types of networks, OSS and BSS.
MoneyMap®’s solutions and cVidya’s highly skilled professional services teams have a proven track record of achieving rapid ROI with major operators, including Cable & Wireless, Telecom Italia, Colt and Bezeq.
cVidya has offices in EMEA, APAC and South America. cVidya received the Red Herring 100 Europe Award for 2006.
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German-based 3D mobile game developer Fishlabs signed a distribution deal with mobile media firm Player X. The company will exclusively distribute Fishlabs’ games in Europe, Asia and South America. Fishlabs also recently signed a similar deal with Sony Ericsson. Player X’s claims it reaches 100 mobile operators and 2.5 billion people–if that’s true, Fishlabs will be swimming in quite a large sea of potential revenue indeed.
“Since more operators now outsource their mobile game needs, it’s vital for any content provider to find a distribution partner with as many direct channels as possible,” said Fishlabs CEO Michael Schade. “Player X was our first choice to partner with because of their impressive list of global distribution channels and its highly professional in-house team.
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Palm sells two-millionth Centro smartphone (World)
