Hit By Domestic Competition, Deutsche Telekom Posts Drop in End-2006 Net Profit; Plans International Expansion
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Europe's largest carrier by sales posted a 43% year-on-year (y/y) fall in net profit last year to 3.165 billion euro, from 5.589 billion euro in 2005. Its core operating profit, as measured by earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), adjusted for special items, fell 6.2% y/y to 19.4 billion euro, in line ...
Income Grows, But Sprint Confirms Contract Customers' Run
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Sprint has released results for the fourth quarter of 2006, confirming the mixed results announced earlier in the year as problems with the iDEN network had effect. Revenues have grown by 7% year-on-year (y/y) to US$10.44 billion while net income rose 32% to US$261 million. Wireless revenues, the core of Sprint's operations, rose by...
Listen Up, Big Guys!
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There are well over a thousand cable system operators in the U.S. Of those, only 10 have more than 500,000 customers. While the big MSOs are involved with the alphabet soup of DOCSIS 3.0, VoIP, OCAP, VOD, DVR, HD, increasingly faster Internet access and other new services, medium-sized cable companies are expanding with VoIP, VOD, DVR,...
BSkyB, Virgin Spat Reaches Customers as Services Pulled from Virgin Network
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LONDON -- The spat between pay-TV rivals British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC and Virgin Media Inc. over content fees reached customers Thursday as BSkyB channels were pulled from Virgin's cable network. While the two companies have been publicly fighting over price, analysts say the dispute has deeper roots as cable and ...
Sonus Boosts Sales, Disses Rivals
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Sonus Networks Inc. again reported only partial quarterly results Wednesday because of an ongoing internal stock options review, yet took pains to say its competitors are distracted by internal events. The VOIP gear maker reported fourth-quarter revenues of $79 million compared to $75 million in the third quarter ...
Verizon Teams with Fujifilm
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Easing some of the pain of printing pictures taken with cameraphones, Fujifilm's Get the Picture Online Service Network is now available to Verizon Wireless subscribers.Users of Verizon Wireless' Pix Place service can take advantage of the more than 10,000 retail locations for printing their pictures. After uploading pictures to ...
Ciena Embraces Carrier Ethernet
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Ciena has become the latest major player in the industry to latch onto the Carrier Ethernet juggernaut. The company unveiled an Ethernet strategy and two new pieces of hardware that give that strategy immediate reality as a product line. The new hardware, offered as part of the company's FlexSelect family, extends ...
700MHz Throwdown Looms
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Setting up a potential battle over the upcoming auction by the FCC of wireless spectrum in the 700MHz band, a group of telecom industry veterans, including former FCC chairman Reed Hundt, have formed a company to build a nationwide public-safety network that could also be used by commercial providers, except at times of emergency. ...
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