January 7th, 2008
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Korean largest mobile manufacturer, Samsung, plans to launch the line up of cheap phone. It will be sold in emerging countries to take the share of mobile industry. One more strategy to beat Nokia. The phones is planned to be offered in India, Southeast Asia, and South America.
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January 5th, 2008
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Dentsu unveiled their research that Japan mobile advertising was projected to reach US$ 3.4 billion in 2007. It grows 42% compared to previous year. Dentsu tracks online advertising in three areas, search ads, mobile ads and fixed Internet ads such as banner, email, rich media and text advertisements. By 2011, Dentsu estimates that Japan’s online [...]
January 4th, 2008
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A local newspaper reported that US telecom giant, AT&T, is interested in acquiring a stake in Telekom Malaysia unit, TM International. Late last year, Malaysia’s largest telecommunications group said it may bring in a foreign strategic partner for TM International.
Source: CNN Money
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December 12th, 2007
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Emirate based telecommunication company, Etisalat, reported to buy 16% stake of XL, third largest Indonesia’s telecom company. Total price amounted US$ 438 million. Etisalat will obtain 1.13 billion shares of Rajawali Group, means that there will be no local stakeholder in XL. More than 60% shares are owned by Malaysian, Telecom Malaysia.
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December 6th, 2007
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Quite impressive, LG Shine series has been sold for 5 million units worldwide since the launch in its original country, Korea, on last year October, and Europe on February. LG is going to launched HSDPA version of the series in the US. Part of LG Shine series are LG KE770 Shine, LG KE970 Shine, LG [...]
October 29th, 2007
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The press conference held by NTT DoCoMo revealed the drop in net profit compared to last year result. Due to the price war with its competitor, KDDI and SoftBank, the company revised its sales forecast for the full year.
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October 19th, 2007
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Thanks to the selling of low-cost cellphone in Africa, Middle East, and Asia, Nokia roses up its market share to 39% from 36% last quarter. Nokia makes 1.65 billion euros of profit, compared to 845 million of the same period last year. That will count 85% increasing.
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September 27th, 2006
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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. [...]
April 28th, 2006
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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 [...]
April 24th, 2006
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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 [...]
i meant 3G
should be cheaper though…
