By Editor on October 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Vodafone New Zealand’s has reported a fall in profit and revenue during the year to the end of March.
According to a report filed with the Companies Office shows that the operating revenue of US$1.59 billion which symbolizes a decrease as compared to US$1.6 billion the last year.
Costs rose to US$1.14 billion from US$1.12 billion, while net profits chop down to US$121.6 million from US$177.7 million.
In August 2009 competitor 2degrees launched its operations, while Telecom launched its XT mobile network in May 2009.
The profit before tax of US$202.5 million compared to US$234.9 million last year.
From its accounts, Vodafone NZ appears to have paid a US$47 million dividend to its UK-based parent, Vodafone PLC.
Vodafone faces challenges and opportunities from the redrawn regulatory landscape. It stands to lose tens of millions from the regulation of mobile termination rates, but could gain just as much if it can win the government’s newly contestable funding for rural broadband and rural telecommunications services.
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Tagged with 2degrees, Mobile, New Zealand, Operating Revenue, Profit, Revenue, rural broadband, rural telecommunications services, telecom, UK-based parent, Vodafone, Vodafone PLC, XT Mobile Network
By Editor on January 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With a one-time tax gain of EUR 213 million, the fourth-quarter EPS of Nokia increased from EUR 0.15 to EUR 0.26. However, Nokia also suffered 1% fall in EPS to EUR 0.25 excluding the tax effect and a number of restructuring charges.
Quarterly sales of Nokia also went down 5.3 percent from a year earlier to EUR 11.99 billion since 0.5 percent growth at its devices division was offset by lower revenues from Nokia Siemens Networks.
However, overall operating profit of the group increased due to the profit at NSN and better margins from handsets.
By Editor on January 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The massive sale of iPhones is working wonders for Apple which recorded an increase of 32% in its first quarter revenues, up from USD 11.88 billion in the year-ago quarter to USD 15.68 billion. Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones during the quarter, up 100 percent year-on-year.
58 percent of the quarter’s revenue came from International sales. 50% rise in the profit to USD 3.38 billion, or USD 3.67 per diluted share, versus USD 2.26 billion, or USD 2.50 per diluted share is also recorded.
3.36 million Macintosh computers, up 33 percent year-on-year, and 21 million iPods, down by 8 percent from the year-ago quarter has also been sold by the company.
By Editor on January 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 3.9% year-on-year rise has been reported in the telecommunication industry of China with the revenue of RMB842.43 billion (USD123 billion) in 2009. 60.43% has been contributed by the wireless telecoms with number of new mobile phone subscribers exceeding 106 million, taking the total subscriber number to 747 million.
27.8% was generated by fixed line operations whose subscriber’s numbers fell by nearly 27 million to 313.68 million at the end of the year.
By Editor on December 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a USD115 million deals, Quinenco agreed to sell telecom firm Telefonica del Sur (Telsur) to rival telco GTD. Chilean financial and industrial conglomerate Quinenco has 74.43% stake in Telsur.
While highlighting the magnetism of Telsur, GTD said that the company has transformed itself from line operator into a multi service provider and now offers a range of broadband and broadcast services. GTD also felt that by the end of 2009, GTD and Telsur together will have a customer base of 480,000 subscribers in fixed and wireless telephony, internet, and digital TV.
Telsur has predicted an annual revenue of USD133 million while GTD expects USD175 million for 2009.
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By admin on October 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The cost of contract
smartphones may rise in the UK if a
price war erupts between
operators over the iPhone. Orange announced on September 28 and Vodafone on September 29 that they have successfully forged an alliance with Apple to launch the iPhone on their respective networks in the UK. T-mobile and 3 may be announcing something shortly too.
In an attempt to lure customers to the data-happy iPhone, mobiel operators will have to increase subsidies on the iPhone. Meanwhile, the cost of other handsets will have to rise as a result. Operators could shift subsidies from other vendors, such as RIM, HTC and Samsung, thus increasing their handset prices.
Orange will be selling the iPhone before
Christmas, while Vodafone will only be able to launch it early 2010.
O2 has been bit hard by Apple’s decision to remove its exclusive rights on the iPhone after two years. It is thought the network may now look at alternative devices, such as the Palm Pre or Motorola’s android based range of phones to boost revenues.
The cost of contract smartphones may rise in the UK if a price war erupts between operators over the iPhone.
Orange announced on September 28 and Vodafone on September 29 that they have successfully forged an alliance with Apple to launch the iPhone on their respective networks in the UK. T-mobile and 3 may be announcing something shortly too.
In an attempt to lure customers to the data-happy iPhone, mobile operators will have to increase subsidies on the iPhone. Meanwhile, the cost of other handsets will have to rise as a result. Operators could shift subsidies from other vendors, such as RIM, HTC and Samsung, thus increasing their handset prices.
Orange will be selling the iPhone before Christmas, while Vodafone will only be able to launch it early 2010.
O2 has been bit hard by Apple’s decision to remove its exclusivity after two years. It is thought the network may now look at alternative devices, such as the Palm Pre or Motorola’s android based range of phones to boost revenues.
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Tagged with Android, Android Based, Apple, Christmas, Contract, Exclusive Rights, exclusivity, Handsets, HTC, iPhone, mobiel, Mobile Operators, Motorola, Network, O2, Orange, Palm, Price War, Revenue, RIM, Samsung, smartphones, Subsidies, T-Mobile, UK, Vodafone
By admin on August 1, 2006 · Leave a Comment
TELES has announced the successful installation and launch of its Mobile Centrex solution at T-Mobile Austria. The TELES Mobile Centrex solution enables T-Mobile Austria to offer SME customers a complete solution that fulfills both their land line and wireless telephony requirements at a competitive price. Using the service enables the SME’s manager to better control their expenses by both turning CAPEX to OPEX and matching the OPEX with the actual corporate size.
“Using the TELES Mobile Centrex solution we can address the large SME market with a complete, new and unique service that enables our customers to benefit from economic efficiency while, simultaneously, improving the quality of their telephony solution,” said Bela Virag, Executive Vice President of Business Marketing at T-Mobile Austria. “At the same time, we can increase our penetration and generate new revenues with business customers.”
Leveraging the TELES Mobile Centrex solution enables mobile service providers to offer the complete replacement of an in-house PBX with a centrally hosted and managed solution including a software based attendant console for use with standard GSM phones as well as auto attendant service, ad-hoc conference service, voice mail and user presence functionality.
“The successful launch of the T-Mobile service is an important milestone in our strategy to supply worldwide wireless service providers with advanced telephony solutions that enable them to address the SME market with new, attractive services,” said Eyal Ullert, CO of Sales and Marketing at TELES.
Using the system’s browser-based Customer Self-care interface, the user can independently manage and configure their service, relieving the mobile service provider of basic, repetitive and costly maintenance.
TELES will be presenting its Mobile Centrex solution at the Barcelona GSM Mobile World Congress.
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