Jordan Telecom net profit drops by 11.3%
Jordan Telecom Group, the country’s sole fixed-line operator revealed that its net profit in the first nine months of 2010 fell 11.3% to US$97.24 million.
France Telecom owns 51% stake in the company. And as per the company, the revenue of its mobile and fixed-line business fell 1.5% to US$447 million compared to the previous year. Company’s data services rose 38% to US$280.2 million.
The group has over 700,000 landlines and a mobile subsidiary Orange that has over 30% market penetration with over two million subscribers.
The mobile phone market has seen a violent grass war with its main competitor, Kuwait telecom operator Zain’s wholly owned Jordanian subsidiary.
Zain is the largest mobile operator in Jordan with around 2.5 million subscribers and a market share of 42% in a market with almost 100% penetration.
Motorola showcases WiNG 5 WLAN solutions at Gitex 2010
The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. has announced WiNG 5 WLAN, the next generation architecture for its portfolio of 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) access points and controllers.
WiNG 5 WLAN deals out intelligence and network services to the edge of the network, helping IT departments provide a better quality of experience for mobile voice, video and data services, increase the flexibility required to meet evolving infrastructure needs and deliver a lower total cost of ownership across the lifetime of their mobility investment. It offers a simpler, more cost-effective way to support business-critical voice, video and data applications by enabling access points (AP) to locally enforce security policies, provide quality of service (QoS) and mobility, and intelligently forward traffic directly along optimal paths to avoid controller bottlenecks.
It architecture delivers an improved quality of experience by giving users better application performance on a more trusted network. It boosts the capacity and resilience of 802.11n networks through intelligent traffic forwarding, SMART RF for application-aware self-healing and more resilient network services. Customers will be benefited from an agile solution, with a flexible architecture that allows a mix of virtual, local site or remote NOC wireless controller deployments in a single distributed network that can scale to thousands of access points with central policy management. WiNG 5 offers a wide choice of 802.11n APs and controllers and a simple, zero-configuration installation that does not require VLAN re-architecting of the wired network.
Motorola WiNG 5 WLAN solutions help make deploying the latest mobile applications affordable to more organizations by requiring less wireless controllers, featuring APs that cover more area and have built-in sensors for a Wireless Intrusion Protection System (WIPS) or network assurance, and by reducing operating costs through the integrated AirDefense Solutions for network management, security and network assurance. And it is now available globally on the RFS 4000 integrated wireless services controller and the AP 650 access point, with phased introduction on the RFS 6000 and RFS 7000 wireless controllers and the AP 6511, AP 7131 and AP 7181 access points expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2011.
According to Nader Baghdadi, Regional Sales Manager, Motorola Wireless Network Solutions, the company is launching the WiNG 5 technology as part of the ongoing commitment to government, enterprise and service provider customers to develop a world-class portfolio of broadband wireless solutions. The customers in the Middle East and North Africa region will benefit from a simpler, more cost-effective and secure solution which supports business-critical voice, video, and data applications.
As per Leo Psara, Chairman, Minerva, WiNG 5 is a very exciting development for Motorola and Minerva. The WiNG 5 launch is an ideal solution for the company’s partners and them, as it is flexible, performance-maximizing and highly secure. Additionally, it gives the wireless LAN end users an upgrade path, which will help them insure their networks, sustainability, security and the continued protection of their investment.
According to James Saldanha, Divisional Manager, Westcon ME, the distributed architecture of WiNG 5.0 offers a simpler and cost-effective way of supporting business-critical Voice, Video and Data applications by enabling access points (AP) to locally enforce full quality of service (QoS), secured services, policies and mobility services, which gives the business application to better direct routing of information and network resilience.
Motorola Solutions delivers flawless connectivity that puts real-time information in the hands of users, which gives customers the agility they need to grow their business or better serve and protect the public.
Working flawlessly together with its world-class devices, the wireless network solutions include indoor wireless LAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint, point-to-point networks and voice-over-WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful software tools for wireless network design, best-of-breed security, management and troubleshooting, Motorola Solution delivers trusted networking and access anywhere to organizations across the globe.
Turk Telecom takes control over 100% of Invitel International
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 100% of Invitel International has been bought by Turk Telekom in a EUR197 million (USD243 million) deal. Invitel International is a central and south European wholesale and data services provider.
The cash deal is hoped to help the operator to capitalize on its strategic position, sitting as it does at the gateway between Europe and Asia. As a result of the deal Hungarian altnet Invitel Holdings will offload its international wholesale business in order to focus on its domestic retail business in Hungary. Denmark’s TDC sold Invitel to the private equity firm Mid Europa Capital in 2009.
In other results of the deal, 27,000km fibre-optic network will be controlled by the Turk incumbent along with a network of operations in 16 countries, and Invitel International subsidiaries AT-Invitel (Germany), Invitel International Hungary and EuroWeb Romania. Currenlty, Invitel International is worth EUR221 million.
Swan partners Telefonica O2 to start network service
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Slovak alternative operator Swan entered into partnership with Telefonica O2 Slovakia to start prepaid mobile services under its own brand. Any call made to the O2 network and all Slovak fixed networks will cost EUR 0.06 per minute and to any other network will cost EUR 0.12 per minute. Per second billing will be applicable only after first minute.
Fixed wireless, Wimax and an optical backbone network with IP MPLS will be used to provide existing data and voice services provided by Swan. SMS, MMS and data services are also included in the offer.
Free CLIP, CLIR, call holding and blockage, and information on missed calls by SMS or MMS free of charge along with access to internet or bulk SMS, MMS and international calls are also in the offer.
The service will be available by the end of year and more widely from January 2010 and the SIM will cost EUR 6, including credit of EUR 5. A Christmas offer has been given according to which, if the customers activate electronic invoicing they will get a SIM card for the new Swan Mobile service free of charge.
China’s total telecom revenue reaches $205bln in the first 7 months
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China’s telco sales have reached 1.4 trillion yuan ($205 billion) in the first seven months of the year, a 12.2% rise in comparison to a year ago, the country’s Ministry for Industry and Information Technology said.
Considering the total revenue for the sector, mobile phones are accoutable to 59.4%. The data services, fixed line and long distance calls made up 40.7%.
Local vendors lose out again as eMobile signs Huawei
The rollout of Japan’s newest W-CDMA nationwide mobile network by eMobile, the new mobile subsidiary of leading DSL wholesaler eAccess Ltd, is gathering pace and causing not a few surprises and disappointments among vendors.
eMobile announced late in July that it had selected Huawei Technologies from 15 global vendors as a second prime network vendor to work alongside Ericsson, which in March was awarded the contract for the nationwide core network and the 1.7-GHz radio network in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
Huawei will start by deploying networks in Sapporo and Sendai. This is the first contract for Huawei or any Chinese network vendor in Japan, and it means that Japanese vendors have completely lost out on this pioneering 3.5G network business worth $3 billion to $4 billion. “The choice of Huawei was an extraordinary shock to Japanese vendors,” eMobile and eAccess CEO Dr Sachio Semmoto told Wireless Asia.
Japanese vendors are not the only shocked and disappointed vendors. Lucent Technologies was passed over yet again. One year ago Lucent appeared to be in pole position with eAccess after working on apparently successful trials combining HSDPA and Lucent’s IMS. Lucent was presented as eAccess’ partner in several high profile PR social and events.
Among the reasons cited for the selection of Huawei by eAccess are its strong product development skills, quality management systems in IP technology and small base stations.
eAccess has done an impressive job of fundraising for the new venture. eMobile now has equity and debt financing totaling 363 billion yen ($3.16 billion). The companies are planning to offer seamless IP-based fixed and mobile services with data services starting in March 2007 and voice services following in Spring 2008.
Putting up a state-of-the-art nationwide mobile network, of course, is costly and eAccess will struggle to reach the 85% coverage required by the government within five years under its present business-financing plan, even though the network will be IP-based.
NTT DoCoMo spent $20 billion on its W-CDMA network and Vodafone Japan around $10 billion on its latest network. From this perspective, it is easy to understand the decision to partner with Huawei, which has risen quickly by combining advanced technology with low prices.
eMobile’s ambitious strategy contrasts sharply with IP Mobile, Japan’s other mobile start-up, which announced that it has secured just over 4 billion yen to build its network. Non-Japanese vendors have also secured a significant part of the contracts so far awarded by IP Mobile.
Source- http://www.telecomasia.net.
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