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[[ Financial ]]
Nextel LatAm Q1 profit jumps 44% to US$65mn
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Latin American digital trunking holding company NII Holdings posted net profits of US$65mn in the first quarter, up 44% compared to 1Q05, the company said in a statement. ...
DJ UK PRESS:Rivals Aim To Replace Goldman As Vodafone Broker
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Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch are preparing pitches to displace Goldman Sachs as broker to Vodafone Group, said a report in the Sunday Telegraph. ...
[[ Handsets ]]
Huawei making headway in handset market
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Chinese telephony equipment manufacturer Huawei is making serious headway in Venezuela's handset market, a source close to Venezuela's largest telco Cantv told BNamericas. ...
[[ Personnel ]]
UK PRESS: Vodafone Chairman Gets Consultancy Role
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Vodafone PLC is proposing to pay Chairman Ian MacLaurin GBP125,000 a year for a consultancy role following his departure from the company in July, The Observer reports Sunday citing a consultation letter to shareholders. ...
Telecoms Engineer Executed in Afghanistan
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A telecoms engineer working for the Afghani GSM network, Roshan has been found executed following his kidnapping at the weekend. K. Suryanarayana, 41 from Hyderabad, India was found beheaded in southern Afghanistan on Sunday. The Taliban militia has ...
Plane Carrying Telecoms Kit Crashes
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The UN has reported that a cargo plane carrying telecoms equipment has crashed in eastern Congo, killing up to eight passengers and crew. The plane carrying telecom gear from Kisangani to Goma, near the border with Rwanda, went down late Thursday. Ev...
[[ Regulatory ]]
New Zealand Watchdog Fails To Make Mobile Fee Rules Case - Telecom
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Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. Monday criticized the Commerce Commission's recommendation to regulate mobile phone termination rates, saying the watchdog has failed to prove its case. ...
ANALYSIS: Is Cofetel prepared for WiMax?
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The decision by Mexican authorities to open up frequency bands for wireless technologies without the need for a concession license is a welcome development that should help define future WiMax spectrum use parameters, analysts say. ...
TDLC rejects request to annul Movistar spectrum sale
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Chile's antimonopoly regulator TDLC has rejected a request from triple play provider VTR to annul the decision by mobile operator Movistar Chile to sell 25Mhz of spectrum to rival operator Smartcom, local press reported. ...
Verizon, JetBlue OK'd To Bid in May Spectrum Auction
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Verizon Airfone Inc. and a JetBlue Airways Corp. unit are among nine companies approved to bid for licenses to provide high-capacity, in-flight Internet service, the Federal Communications Commission announced on Monday. ...
[[ Reports ]]
Low Cost Cellphones Drive Semiconductors Sales
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Worldwide sales of semiconductors of US$19.22 billion in February were
6.8% higher than February of 2005, reports the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). February sales reflected a 2.2% sequential decline from the US$19.65 billion reported in J...