Good job Huawei, I am sure that the folks at ZTE in Shanghai are not so happy :-)
(via GSMA) It has been widely reported that Indian operator Tata Teleservices has picked Huawei as a supplier for its 3G network, marking the first contract from the country for a Chinese vendor since the Indian authorities expressed security concerns about equipment from foreign vendors. Huawei will build networks for Tata in five of the nine “circles” for which the company has 3G licences, with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) having previously been awarded a deal for the other four -- Tata’s NSN deal was trumpeted as the first major 3G contract from a private operator in the country. The Huawei agreement includes supporting installation services and the provision of LTE-ready base station equipment. The deal could mark the start of a raft of contracts from Indian operators, following the 3G licensing process which took place earlier in 2010 and subsequent vendor issues, which are likely to have significantly delayed network builds; Infonetics Research recently said that the delayed rollout of 3G in India had contributed to a slowdown in the global network infrastructure market. It has not been revealed if Huawei and NSN have had to make concessions to secure government approval for the contracts, with Ericsson previously describing the demands made as “unjustly onerous”. It has also been reported that Tata has been cleared to buy equipment from ZTE, although no announcement appears to have been made to this end; BSNL and Reliance Communications have also been cleared to buy from Chinese suppliers.
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No it's not a Scny, Nckia, or a Sumsung ! It's a *real* Sony smartphone for China !
(via Telecom Asia) Dylan Bushell-Embling | September 01, 2010 telecomasia.net Sony Ericsson has launched its first TD-SCDMA handset to capitalize on it expects to be the fast adoption of smartphones in the China market. The handset vendor yesterday unveiled the Sony Ericsson A8i, a touchscreen device jointly developed with China Mobile and which uses the Chinese carrier’s OS platform. “China is a hugely important market for Sony Ericsson and we are committed to maintaining our strong position,” Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg said. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nordberg said he expects smartphone adoption to increase in China as the price gap between smart and feature phones narrows. Sony Ericsson expects smartphones to represent 50% of the market by 2015. IDC estimates that smartphones accounted for 11% of the 160.6 million mobiles shipped in China in 2009. Nordberg added that the vendor plans to continue offering W-CDMA phones in the market through China Unicom, but has yet to decide whether it will be financially worthwhile to develop cdma2000 handsets for China Telecom. He said that the plan to shift from “volume to value” was succeeding, with ASPs growing to €160 ($202) in Q2 from €122 a year before, and Sony Ericsson capturing around 7% of global market revenues from just 4% of total shipments. Looks like Amazon is going after Netflix ...
(Via Telecoms Europe via Financia) Robert Clark | September 01, 2010 telecomseurope.net Online retailer Amazon has become the latest to jump on the online TV bandwagon. It has been pitching its planned subscription service to major media companies including NBC Universal, Time Warner and News Corp, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon already sells individual TV shows for Blu-ray and the Xbox 360, as well as digital movie downloads. It aims to stay out of the way of the burgeoning web businesses of Hollywood and the TV networks by focusing on older or “long-tail” content, making it more of a rival to Netflix. With the pending arrival of internet-connected TVs it could be on the right track, as the world of home viewing is about to turn upside down. Google has stolen a march on its rivals with plans for a worldwide pay-per-view service due to start by the end of the year, as it pitches the power of its search technology and YouTube. As a source told the FT: ““Google and YouTube are a global phenomenon with a hell of a lot of eyeballs – more than any cable or satellite service.” That's a really good move. (via GSMA)
The prospect of a US$25 billion mega-merger between VimpelCom Ltd and Orascom appears to have inched forward this week with both parties reportedly confirming deal talks. Moscow-based newspaper Vedomosti reports today that VimpelCom’s board met in Amsterdam last week to discuss the deal, which saw the operator’s two main shareholders – Russia’s Alfa Group and Norway’s Telenor – both support the merger “in principle.” Meanwhile, in a wide-ranging interview with Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper this week, Orascom chairman Naguib Sawiris confirmed for the first time that talks with VimpelCom had started. “We are not only talking to them, we are talking to anybody,” Sawiris told the newspaper. However, he noted that the priority for the group was to solve its problems in Algeria (where the government has banned Orascom from selling its Algerian network to a third party); finding “a good partner for the group” was the next issue on Orascom’s agenda, he said. According to reports last month, VimpelCom Ltd is looking to buy Orascom’s Italian mobile firm (WIND) and take a 51 percent stake in Orascom itself – funding a deal through a combination of cash and shares. This would see Orascom’s owners get around 20-23 percent of voting shares in the enlarged VimpelCom group, while Alfa Group and Telenor would see their shareholdings decrease to 27 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Analysts have warned, however, that such a deal would see VimpelCom take on a significant amount of extra debt. |
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