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Malaysia’s biggest mobile firm, Maxis Communications Bhd, will spend a total of RM2.2 billion over the next three years to expand its third generation (3G) network and wireless broadband Internet services. The company expects a break- even period of about three years.
Maxis aims to make broadband available to three quarters of all households by 2010. […]

Alcatel Inc. reported strong growth in its fixed-line business during the first quarter, but intense competition in mobile network equipment sales hurt the company’s operating margin, which rose to 6.5 percent from 4.1 percent a year ago, but fell below analyst expectations of 8 percent.
The French equipment vendor posted first-quarter net profits of $129.1 million […]

Mobile phone network giant Ericsson reported first-quarter earnings and profitability below expectations on Friday due to costs from its takeover of Marconi and the start up of new contracts.
It hinted at further pressure on profitability as it takes on new business in a market for equipment for GSM and high-speed 3G phone networks where it […]

Consumers are struggling to find satisfaction with Hutchison’s much-vaunted third-generation mobile phone service. According to a Nielsen Media survey released yesterday, Hutchison’s multibillion-dollar expansion into 3G has scraped in at bottom place on customer satisfaction.
The results come amid red-hot competition in the mobile phone market. Vodafone topped the poll. Hutchison spokeswoman Liz Rex declined to […]

The number of new mobile phone subscribers of Indonesia’s second largest telecoms firm, PT Indosat Tbk, may fall by 8-12 percent in the first quarter of this year from the same period in 2005, its chief said on Monday.
However, Hasnul Suhaimi, Indosat’s president director, told reporters the company still retained its target of between 3-4 […]