World: TeliaSonera Posts 4.5% Rise in Q2 Revenue
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TeliaSonera increased its second-quarter 2006 revenue by 4.5% year-on-year (y/y) to 22.737 billion Swedish kronor, helped by improved sales boosted by its recent acquisitions and strong growth in its international mobile operations, which offset declining revenues at its domestic Swedish and Finnish fixed-line ...
Making Revenue Assurance Maturity Models Practical
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Revenue Assurance Maturity Models (RAMMs) are abundant today, because they are useful as evaluative tools and can provide the basis for a phased roadmap. Yet their documentation often lacks pointers for crossing over from the academic realm to the real...
Pay Phones Suffer As Cell Phone Use Rises
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NEW YORK -- A stroll along Ninth Avenue in Manhattan reveals an ugly picture of the state of the pay phone these days. The phones are sticky, beat up and scarred, and some don't work at all. A child's change purse is stuffed on one phone ledge, along with a large wad of wrapping plastic. On a nearby ledge, an empty bottle of ...
Telecom Heavyweights Test UMTS 900
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Qualcomm and Lucent Technologies, along with O2 and its subsidiary Manx Telecom, announced plans to conduct a UMTS/high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) trial using 900 MHz spectrum. The trial will take place on the Isle of Man. For its part in the trial, Lucent will supply its UMTS/HSDPA base station products developed for the ...
FCC Stats: CLECs The Big Losers As Wireless Use Soars
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Competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) are taking a worse beating than incumbents as growth in mobile wireless lines during the latter half of 2005 continued to erode the wireline base, according to recently issued government figures on local competition in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday ...
Alcatel Slams Wireless Price War
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Alcatel CEO Serge The Merge Tchuruk lashed out at his company's GSM infrastructure rivals today, saying they were driving pricing levels down to unsustainable levels in a bid to win market share. Talking during his company's second-quarter conference call, Tchuruk said that a lot of the players involved in ...
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