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broadband services to rural areas. Telecom NZ will need to undergo structural separation if it is selected.
US net neutrality battle The US House of Representatives voted to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality rules proposed in December. Once a bill is agreed by the Republican-controlled House it still needs to be agreed by Senate Democrats.
Last IPv4 addresses allocated The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) allocated the last IPv4 Internet addresses in February.
Aircel 3G launch Aircel launched 3G services in 11 of the 13 circles in which it won spectrum in India. Aircel will invest US$3 billion over the next three years to roll out 3G services. Vodfone Essar plans to launch 3G services by the end of March.
Huawei wins big in Australia Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) will replace its entire network of 8,000 2G/3G base stations with Huawei equipment that also provides LTE coverage. Huawei also won a contract from Nextel to build WCDMA networks in Mexico and Brazil.
Sweden spectrum auction Sweden began an auction of spectrum in the 800-MHz band, with six licences of 2x5-MHz on offer and each bidder limited to a maximum 2x10-MHz.
DT expands fibre in Germany Deutsche Telekom will deploy fibre-to-the-home connections to up to 160,000 households in ten cities in 2011. The company also plans to upgrade its HSPA network to 42 Mbps by the end of the year and provide LTE services to business customers.
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European wholesale deal Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) signed a deal to use Interoute’s 100-GB capacity core fibre network in Western Europe. TIWS will become Interoute’s provider for trans-Atlantic, US and Latin America routes.
Czech 3G sharing agreement The Czech mobile arms of Telefonica and T-Mobile signed a 3G network sharing agreement covering areas not already served.
Yoigo expands 3G network Spanish mobile operator Yoigo, owned by TeliaSonera, signed a deal for Ericsson to expand its 3G HSPA network.
Regulator forces fibre access Swedish regulator PTS issued an injunction to force TeliaSonera to provide unbundled local loop fibre access.
Spain to sell off spectrum Spain plans to sell 310 MHz of mobile spectrum in the second quarter, raising up to £2 billion.
Huawei’s underground bid Huawei offered to provide for free a mobile network worth £50 million on the London Underground train system in time for the 2012 Olympics.
Mobily LTE deal Saudi Arabian mobile operator Mobily signed a deal for Samsung Electronics to provide LTE and mobile WiMAX equipment.
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Lombard leaves Orange France Telecom-Orange chairman Didier Lombard stepped down four months early, at the end of February, leaving Stephane Richard as sole chairman and CEO.
Zain executives resign Three of Zain’s top executives resigned: chief operating officer Barrak Al Sabeeh; Haitham Al Khaled, chief strategy and business development officer; and Salah Al Fawzan, advisor to the group’s chief executive.
Indian minister arrested Former Indian telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja was arrested over ongoing allegations of irregularities in the allocation of mobile spectrum in 2008.
TeliaSonera job cuts TeliaSonera will cut 640 jobs in Sweden and 165 in Finland across its Mobility and Broadband Services divisions, but will also recruit 200 people this year.
New Vodafone chairman Philips CEO Gerard Kleisterlee will succeed John Bond as chairman of Vodafone from July.
Cisco appoints COO Cisco appointed Gary Moore, who ran the company’s Services division, to the new position of chief operating officer.
Nokia Siemens CFO Marco Schroter will become NSN’s new financial chief in March, succeeding Luca Maestri who will join Xerox Corp.
South Africa CEO resignation Dave Smith, the CEO of state- owned South African national fibre backbone company Broadband Infraco, resigned unexpectedly just three months after the company launched its first commercial services.
Fastweb founder let out Fastweb founder Silvio Scaglia, standing trial in an alleged E2 billion money-laundering and tax-fraud scheme, had his house arrest order revoked.
CRITICAL JUNCTURE Nokia’s decision in February to make Microsoft’s Windows Phone its main operating sys- tem for smartphones was de- scribed by CEO Stephen Elop (pictured), a former Microsoft executive, as “a critical junc- ture” in the company’s histo- ry. Nokia will also adopt Micro- soft’s Bing as its main search engine and adCenter as its mobile advertising platform, while its application store Ovi will be integrated with Micro- soft’s Marketplace. The Win- dows adoption is a blow to MeeGo, Nokia’s Linux-based operating system joint ven- ture with Intel that now be- comes an open source plat- form; Intel subsequently said it will find other partners to develop MeeGo. And with Windows-based phones not due to be released by Nokia for almost a year, some ana- lysts said customers have lit- tle incentive to purchase the company’s MeeGo or Symbi- an models, potentially further eroding its declining position in the high-end handset mar- ket due to intense competition from Apple’s iPhone and de- vices based on Google’s An- droid (see p.20). Nokia also announced a reorganisation of the company into two main divisions—Smart Devices and Mobile Phones—with MeeGo and Mobile Solutions head Al- berto Torres leaving the com- pany. Smart Devices, head- ed by Jo Harlow, will develop Windows Phone 7, Symbian and MeeGo devices (Nokia ex- pects to sell 150 million addi- tional Symbian devices on top of the current installed base of 200 million); Mobile Phones will continue to be led by Mary McDowell and will be respon- sible for affordable handsets for the broader mass market.
www.totaltele.com March 2011
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