Bharti Airtel’s revenue growth to remain under pressure (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to Bharti Airtel, the revenue growth of the company will remain under pressure for the next two quarters. Besides, the new players in the market will also have to struggle to attract funds.
However, the net profit of the firm rose by 34.47% for the first quarter that ended in September 2009, thus, increasing from Rs 17,146.60 million in the same quarter previous year to 23,056.80 million.
The total income for the quarter rose 16.09% to Rs 103,930.60 million while the consolidated net sales for the quarter rose 16.04% to Rs 103,551.60 million. The shares of Bharti Airtel traded at Rs 316.60 gaining Rs 6.75, or 2.18%.
Mobile search service launched by Mobifone(Vietnam)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vietnam based mobile operator MobileFone launched its mobile-search service in partnership with Nam Digital Corp Area 1 (VDC1). The msearch service is based on socbay technology of Naiscorp.
The service will operate on GPRS base and high speed 3G. Using a client support of nearly 300 mobile lines in Vietnam, the service will provide relevant information of the search results to the users including pictures, sound and ads.
The aim of the service is to attract businessmen and youngsters, and has been developed to provide an alternative to search engines on mobile devices in the thriving market of 3 G services and smartphone.
Case Study of the Mobile IP Centrex: A paper by NTTDoCoMo
We just came across a case study of the Mobile IP Centrex.
The paper explores how at the initial stage of mobile phone penetration, cell phones were primarily used for business. With increased penetration, mobile phone use expanded vastly from business alone to personal and onto entertainment among other utilities. In 2004, a handset was released with a wireless LAN function, and mobile phones came to be incorporated into the ICT solution.
Hiroyasu YUHASHI of the Mobile Society Research Institute at NTT DOCOMO, INC believes that now, Mobile IP Centrex is one of the most popular ICT solutions for utilizing mobile phones.
In this paper, he has introduced a manufacturing company as the latest example of an enterprise providing an ICT solution using mobile phones. With the adoption of the mobile phone, the office environment was restructured. In addition, the increasing use of mobile phones changed the way people worked. Progressing from the introduction of the example, he considers the construction of a communication network for business as a result of the increasing use of mobile phones.
MVNO deal signed by Tele2 in Germany
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement has been signed between Tele2 Telecommunications Services GmbH and VIAG Interkom in Germany as per which Tele2 will use Interkom’s wireless network to provide the air interface for Tele2′s fixed line customers.
With over 1 million residential and business fixed telephony customers, Tele2 is one of Germany’s largest Indirect Access Operators.
According to Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, President and CEO of Tele2 AB, Germany is the largest telecoms market in Europe and this MVNO will enable Tele2 to offer an attractively priced offering of both fixed and mobile services on one bill to its customers.
The MVNO is expected to be operational in Q2 2002.
