Brazilian telco TIM Participacoes (TIM Brasil), part of the Telecom Italia group, has revealed that it will market fibre-to-the-curb/fibre-to-the-building (FTTC/FTTB) services under the brand name ‘Live’, and aims to sign up one million subscribers within five years.
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EMT reveals mobile TV-over-LTE trial
Estonian mobile network operator Eesti Mobiiltelefon (EMT) has announced the launch of a pilot project in which it will test mobile TV services over its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. With the company noting that its 4G infrastructure now covers around 40% of the Estonian population, EMT CEO Valdo Kalm noted that pricing for the service has yet to be determined, stating that his company was currently collecting information regarding tariffs for similar products in other countries.
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Zain to invest JOD85m in infrastructure in 2012
Kuwait-backed Zain Jordan plans to invest JOD85 million (USD119.42 million) in infrastructure and new technologies in 2012, the company’s CEO Ahmad Al Hanandeh told Dow Jones Newswires. The figure represents a step down from the amount spent last year, having invested JOD90 million in 2011, and JOD70 million in 2010. As noted by TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, Zain launched commercial services over its 3.5G W-CDMA/HSPA+ network in March 2011 and claimed to have signed up 700,000 users to 3G services by the end of the year.
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Batelco scraps tower lease plan in favour of infrastructure sharing
Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) has abandoned a proposal to sell and lease back its cellular network transmission towers in Bahrain and Jordan, in favour of a plan to share infrastructure with rival operators. The group’s CEO Sheikh Mohamed Al-Khalifa was quoted by Reuters as saying that Batelco had decided not to proceed with the tower sale-lease plan – aimed at helping raise funds for acquisitions – because various proposals in both countries ‘did not create sufficient, long-term economic value.’ Batelco, which operates in Jordan via its Umniah subsidiary, gained investment-grade ratings in November and had a cash/bank balance of USD164 million at the end of March, meaning that it ‘has the ability to raise funds at much lower rates than tower companies and thus could not justify the lease back arrangements,’ Sheikh Mohamed said
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TRAI suggests FDI cap of 74% for towercos
The Telecoms Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested lowering the foreign direct investment (FDI) cap for telecom infrastructure providers from 100% to 74%, reports the Business Standard. The comment was made as part of the TRAI’s recommendations on ‘Guidelines for Unified Licence/Class Licence and Migration of Existing Licences’: the reduction is due to come into effect within three years of the implementation of the Unified Licensing regime. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has requested that the TRAI reconsider its recommendation, as it believes that the new measures will adversely impact investment in infrastructure.
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Quartet fined NGN1.17bn for poor service quality
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued fines totalling NGN1.17 billion (USD7.3 million) to four of the country’s GSM operators for failure to meet service quality targets set by the regulator. Local newspaper This Day reports that South Africa’s MTN and UAE-based Etisalat will be required to pay NGN360 million each, while Airtel, which is owned by Indian telco Bharti Airtel, and Globacom have been fined NGN270 million and NGN180 million, respectively.
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Uganda acknowledges white elephant in the room
Following an investigation into the status of Uganda’s national backbone infrastructure project prior to the third and fourth stages of the network’s rollout, the chairperson of the ICT Parliamentary Committee, Paula Turyahikayo has said that the government might be forced to re-invest in the project for the backbone to be functional.
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EVN Telecom officially handed over to Viettel
Vietnamese military-run company Viettel Corporation has officially taken control of the telecoms unit of state-owned utility company Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), local press reported. EVN Telecom and its five member companies have signed documents to hand over their assets to Viettel, after Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed a decision to allow the transfer of the struggling operator to the military-owned firm on 1 January 2012.
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Du Q1 revenue up 20% on rising mobile data usage
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (Du), the United Arab Emirates’ second national telecoms operator, has announced it generated revenue of AED2.4 billion (USD653 million) in the first three months of 2012, an increase of 20.1% from AED2.0 billion in the year-ago quarter.
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Nextel aims to carve out 5%-12% of market by 2017
In the wake of the full commercial launch of its W-CDMA network, Nextel Chile has said it is looking to secure a market share of 5%-12% in the next five years, reports BNAmericas. The US-backed cellco began trialling its network in October 2011, and launched mobile broadband services the following March, only adding voice services this week. As noted in TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, Nextel was awarded 60MHz of spectrum in the 1700MHz and 2100MHz bands in September 2009, and has invested USD300 million in rolling out its infrastructure.
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- Tata drops out of running for CWW April 19, 2012
- TeliaSonera’s EBITDA falls 0.7% on 3.5% revenue increase April 19, 2012
- Telia Denmark raises LTE upload speeds April 19, 2012
- STC reports 60% rise in Q1 net profit April 19, 2012
- CAT puts 3G plans on hold; TOT told to do same May 18, 2012
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- Videotron delivers on 200Mbps promise May 18, 2012
- T-Mobile has no plans to introduce LTE handsets May 18, 2012
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