[kictanet] Fw: Telecompaper Headlines, Friday July 31, 2009

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Mobile / Wireless 
China Unicom to expand 3G trials by 168 cities
China | Mobile
China Unicom will expand trials of its WCDMA netwwork to 168 more cities in August. The company has continuing trials in 100 cities at present, the South China Morning Post reports. The newly added cities are in eighteen provinces, including Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Hunan, ... |  More   
Motorola handset revenues down 45% in Q2
World | Mobile
Motorola reported a continued slide in results in Q2, with revenues tumbling to USD 5.5 billion from USD 8.1 billion a year earlier. Operating profit edged up to USD 10 million from USD 5 million, and net profit improved to USD 26 million from USD 4 million, helped by investment gains and a legal ... |  More   
Turkcell launches 3G services
Turkey | Mobile
Turkcell has launched 3G products and services in all of Turkey's 81 provinces. Speaking at a press conference on the 3G launch, Assistant General Manager Lale Saral Develioglu said Turkcell received 1 million preliminary applications for its 3G services. The operator's 3G technology already covers ... |  More   
Global mobile phone sales down 8% in Q2
World | Mobile
Global handset shipments reached 273 million units worldwide in the second quarter, down 8 percent from 297 million units a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics. The rate of decline was slower than the previous quarter, as the market showed tentative signs of stabilisation, the market ... |  More   
NTT Docomo sees profits, revenues fall in Q1
Japan | Mobile
NTT Docomo saw its revenues and profits drop in the first quarter ended 30 June. Revenues fell 7.3 percent to JPY 1.08 trillion from JPY 1.17 trillion in the year-ago period. Mobile services revenues plunged 5.8 percent to JPY 881.9 billion. Net income fell by 15.1 percent to JPY 147.4 billion from ... |  More   
Angola govt sells 80% of Movicel
Angola | Mobile
The Angolan government approved the sale of 80 percent of Angola's second-largest operator Movicel to several companies, Reuters reports. The price paid and location of the purchasing firms was not disclosed in government statement, which was approved at a cabinet meeting late on 29 July. The ... |  More   
Indian govt may allow Telenor to hike Unitech stake - report
India | Mobile
India's home ministry is set to give security clearance to Indian mobile operator Unitech Wireless' proposal to hike its foreign shareholding by Norwegian telecommunication group Telenor to up to 74 percent, writes the Economic Times. But clearance will be given on the condition that none of the ... |  More   
Alcatel builds 3G mobile network for Globalive in Canada 
Canada | Mobile
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a multi-million dollar, three-year contract to help build Canadian 3G licence holder Globalive Wireless Management's nationwide 3G mobile network in Canada. Alcatel-Lucent is providing an end-to-end service and network integration support to ensure the rapid rollout ... |  More   
 
Broadband  
West Africa internet access hit by undersea cable damage 
Africa | Fixed 
Serious damage has been caused to the 15,000-km undersea SAT-3 cable, which has resulted in major disruption to West African internet access and services, the BBC reports. Several countries, including Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria, have all been hit hard. The cable itself runs between Europe ... |  More  

Other 
Sky to launch 3D channel for Sky+ HD customers in 2010
United Kingdom | Broadcast
British Sky Broadcasting has announced plans to launch the UK's first 3D channel in 2010 following strong Sky+ HD  growth. It added 291,000 Sky+ HD subscribers in the three months to end-June to reach 1.31 million. The 3D channel will offer programming including films, entertainment and sports. The ... |  More 




 
 
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