Brasil Telecom GSM reaches 3 million client mark
Brasil Telecom GSM, which this month celebrates two years of operating, announced it has a total of 3 million clients. BrT GSM’s goal is to arrive at 3.3 million clients by the end of the year, representing a 50 percent growth on the total number of clients at the beginning of the year. According to national telecom regulator Anatel, the operator had a 3.07 percent share of the Brazilian mobile telephony market, after Vivo, TIM, Claro, Oi and the Telemig/Amazonia Celular group.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
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J:COM to launch FMC trial in October
Japanese cable company Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) will begin a trial for Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), a new telephone service which allows customers to have a single phone number which can be both fixed and mobile. The service will allow an existing mobile phone with Wi-Fi support to transmit a landline telephone signal as an extension of the traditional household landline telephone. The trial environment will be created at J:COM using an FMC-compatible SIP application server fully adapted to the IMS framework created by US manufacturer LongBoard. Along with the trial, J:COM will be considering potential future commercialisation in cooperation with Sumisho Computer Systems, which integrates existing IP systems. Work begins in September to create the test environment, with the trial beginning in October and lasting approximately four to six weeks.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Ericsson re-organises into three business units
Ericsson is reorganising into three business units, each addressing a specific market segment. The company plans to hire an additional 500 engineers to accelerate research, especially in the area of next generation IP networks and multimedia technology. The three business units are: Networks, Global Services and Multimedia. The Networks unit will include mobile and fixed access, core and transmission networks, as well as next generation IP-networks. The former business units Systems, Access and Broadband networks will be integrated into the new unit as well as Ericsson Power Modules and Ericsson Cables. The unit will be headed by Kurt Jofs, Executive Vice President and currently head of business unit Access. The new unit will have approximately 21,500 employees. The Global Services unit consists of Professional Services as well as Network Rollout. This unit, established in 1999, is unaffected by the new organisation and Hans Vestberg, Executive Vice President, will continue to lead the unit. Ericsson’s services organisation has approximately 23,000 employees worldwide. The Multimedia unit will consist of the Multimedia unit within the former Business Unit Systems, Business Units Enterprise and Ericsson Mobile Platforms as well as Ericsson Consumer and Enterprise Lab. The new unit will have approximately 4,000 employees. A head of this new business unit will be announced shortly. The new organization will be in effect from 1 January 2007.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Canadian mobile base up 12%, fixed-line users drop 5%
The number of mobile phone users in Canada rose to 16.8 million in the first quarter, up 11.9 percent form a year earlier, according to the national statistics office. The growth rate was in line with progress over the past three years. Mobile penetration in Canada however remains behind other OECD countries, at just 52 subscribers per 100 inhabitants – a rate reached in 2001across the OECD average. Fixed-line subscribers remain in decline, down 5.3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to 11.8 million residential lines. This was the biggest drop since the decline started in 2001. Most are giving up their landline for mobile or cable telephony. At the end of 2005, there were an estimated 615,000 households with only a mobile phone, around 285,000 more than year earlier. In the first quarter, wirelines revenues at traditional operators fell 3.8 percent from a year ago to CAD 5.5 billion. Revenues for mobile operators rose 17.2 percent to CAD 2.9 billion. Wireline EBIT fell 10.1 percent to CAD 1.1 billion, while mobile EBIT increased 32.2 percent to CAD 854.2 million. Mobile operators achieved a margin of 29.2 percent, some 10 points higher than fixed operators. Canada Statistics noted that is redesigning its quarterly survey of telecoms services, and in the interim period only a summary of results will appear.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Ericsson morphs into three new units
Ericsson has restructured its business into three “more customer-oriented” units: Networks, Global Services and Multimedia with the main aim being to strengthen its ability to exploit the growing market for the delivery of multimedia services, especially to mobile devices. The new organization will be in effect as of January 1, 2007.
President and CEO, Carl-Henric Svanberg, said the emerging multimedia market was “an area with obvious business opportunities and potentially a powerful driver for increasing network capacity and investments by operators.” Ericsson intends to recruit an additional 500 engineers “to accelerate research, especially in the area of next generation IP-networks and multimedia technology.” Svanberg claimed: “In the multimedia business we have the content and application management, the technical excellence and execution resources as well as strong relationships with content providers and operators.
The company says that, in 2005, the multimedia market – networked TV, music, gaming, video, radio and print over fixed and mobile networks – was valued at just under EUR20 billion and is expected to exceed EUR100 billion by 2011.
“Today, there are some 2.5 billion mobile subscribers of which a growing number is being upgraded to mobile broadband,” according to Ericsson. “Traffic in mobile networks is expected to quadruple in the next five years, primarily driven by continued subscriber growth and fixed to mobile substitution for voice but especially by increased data traffic from mobilized enterprise applications, music down loads, mobile TV and other new multimedia applications.”
Business Unit Networks will include mobile and fixed access, core and transmission networks, as well as next generation IP-networks. The former business units Systems, Access and Broadband networks will be integrated into the new unit as well as Ericsson Power Modules and Ericsson Cables. The unit will be headed by Kurt Jofs, executive vice president and currently head of the Access business unit. The unit will have approximately 21,500 employees.
Business Unit Global Services is unchanged. It includes Ericsson Professional Services and provides services rolling out networks for customers. The unit was created in 1999 and has approximately 23,000 employees worldwide. It manages networks with more than 65 million subscribers and provides support to networks with 725 million subscribers.
Business Unit Multimedia will consist of the Multimedia unit within the former Systems business unit and will combine the former, smaller, business units Enterprise and Ericsson Mobile Platforms as well as Ericsson Consumer and Enterprise Lab. It will have approximately 4,000 employees. A head of this new business unit will be announced shortly.
TeliaSonera: Xfera Renews Its National 2G-Roaming Agreement with Vodafone
STOCKHOLM, Sweden–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2006–TeliaSonera’s newly established mobile operator in Spain, Xfera, has today reached an agreement with Vodafone, renewing the terms and conditions of the previous roaming agreement signed by Xfera and Vodafone in 2001. The agreed conditions provide for full national roaming in Vodafone’s Spanish 2G-network.
“We are satisfied with the conditions offered by Vodafone which are in accordance with our expectations. By combining the excellent quality and nationwide coverage of Vodafone’s network and the high capacity of Xfera’s network, we will be able to offer the customers in Spain seamless services across networks,” says Kenneth Karlberg, President of TeliaSonera Norway, Denmark, the Baltic countries and Spain.
The agreement is a key element to Xfera’s launch of its commercial offerings before the end of the year. Xfera will offer nationwide coverage based on the combination of Xfera’s own 3G-network, currently being rolled-out according to license requirements, and the roaming agreement concluded with Vodafone.
About Xfera
Xfera is the mobile telecommunications company that was awarded the fourth 3G-licence in Spain. TeliaSonera, the leading telecoms operator in the Nordic and Baltic region has a 76.6% stakeholding in the company; ACS, the construction and services group, has a 17% stake, FCC, a 3.4% stake and Telvent, a 3% stake.
TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic regions. At the end of December 2005 TeliaSonera had 19,146,000 mobile customers (69,887,000 incl associated companies) and 7,064,000 fixed telephony customers (7,688,000 incl associated companies) and 2,263,000 internet customers (2,331,000 incl associated companies). Outside the home markets TeliaSonera has extensive interests in the growth markets in Russia, Turkey and Eurasia. TeliaSonera is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Net sales January-December 2005 amounted to SEK 87.7 billion. The number of employees was 28,175.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements made in the press release relating to future status or circumstances, including future performance and other trend projections are forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements due to many factors, many of which are outside the control of TeliaSonera.
Source- http://biz.yahoo.com
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