Latin America: Telefonica Plans to Invest US$177 Mil. in Broadband Expansion for SMEs
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Spanish telecoms group Telefonica is planning to invest 139 million euro (US$177 million) in expanding its broadband service for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Latin America. Telefonica will make the investment through its Telefonica Negocios unit, which serves the SME segment. The company also ...
France: Sale of Tele2 French Units Imminent, MVNO Reaches 300,000 Customers
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A buyer for Tele2's French units may emerge at the end of the month, La Tribune reports. Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper said that front-runner Neuf Cegetel may not make it to the second round, as it only bid 300 million euro (US$384 million) for the stake. However, Tele2's MVNO operations would probably not be included in...
Russia: SMARTS Plans Alternative to Interconnection Fees
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Regional mobile operator SMARTS has announced that it plans to offset projected losses incurred by the country's new Calling Party Pays (CPP) system by adding new subscribers, reports Prime-Tass. SMARTS estimates that an increase of around 500,000 customers would be sufficient to compensate revenue losses brought about by ...
Leading Search Engines Agree to Team Up to Fight Click Fraud
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Internet's leading search engines are teaming up with an advertising trade group to find a better way to identify and measure 'click fraud' a scam that has raised doubts about the Web's trustworthiness as a marketing vehicle. The initiative, to be announced Wednesday morning by the ...
Spain's Telefonica Wins Slovakia's 3rd Mobile License
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Telefonica SA won a tender for Slovakia's third mobile operators license, the Slovak Telecommunications Office said Wednesday. The office said in a statement that it will allot cellular frequencies to Telefonica 02 Slovakia SRO, a unit of Spain's Telefonica SA, in four weeks' time. The ...
Despite Naysayers, IMS Has Real Potential in Enterprise Market
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Despite widespread views to the contrary, enterprise businesses will likely become a hot market for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services, reports In-Stat. IMS has the potential to generate over US$15 billion annually by 2010 for US carriers, the high-tech market research firm says. IMS provides ...
Court: FCC Overstepped Billing Authority
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A federal court of appeals in Atlanta ruled the FCC overstepped its authority by telling state regulators they couldn't require or prohibit the use of line items on consumers' wireless bills. The issue is close to a larger effort by wireless carriers to keep states from regulating wireless services. States are allowed to ...
Boston Wi-Fi Plan Eyes Nonprofit Muni Net Operator
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A special wireless task force for the City of Boston has proposed a nonprofit organization be formed to build and run a wholesale municipal Wi-Fi network that would recruit service-provider partners to offer low-cost Internet broadband access. The three-member task force formed by the city in mid-February issued a 56-page report to ...
Vodafone Hangs On to Verizon Stake
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Defying months of intense rumor and speculation, Vodafone Group plc will not flog its 45 percent stake in massive U.S. cellular operator Verizon Wireless , according to the man who may have most wished for such a sell-off -- the CEO of Verizon Communications Inc., Ivan Seidenberg. The Verizon big cheese said on Verizon's ...
India's Carriers Report Major Growth
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Phenomenal growth in mobile uptake is giving India's leading operators a financial boost, according to the latest earnings reports. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) , the country added 12.91 million mobile subscribers during the quarter ended June 30, bringing the country's total number of...
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