Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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3 Had No Impact on Sales Says MMO2
July 24, 2003 - source: BWCS
UK-based mobile operator mmO2 reported solid subscriber growth in the
last quarter, adding 504,000 customers across the UK, Germany and Ireland.
The former BT mobile division has issued a set of performance indicators
for the three months to June 30, which also showed increases in ARPU and
mobile data usage.
While there has been concern about the effect of 3’s aggressive price
cutting strategy, mmO2 CEO Peter Erskine was quoted by the Financial Times
as saying, “So far, there has been no noticeable impact on us from 3 and
we have no plans to react.”
In the UK, mmO2’s main market, the operator added 258,000 subscribers
in the three months to June and reported a blended ARPU increase of 2.8%
to £254. Subscriber numbers in Germany went up by 225,000, with a 2.4%
ARPU increase to €348, while Ireland managed to add 17,000 customers,
reporting a stagnant ARPU at €545. mmO2’s total customer base in the three
markets stands at 18.7 million.
On a 12-month basis, mobile data as a percentage of total service revenues
increased from 17.4% to 18.2%, thanks to a higher volume of text messages
sent, up 2.8% on the previous quarter to 2.4 billion. However, while Erskine
stated that the company was committed to a “strategy of continuous operational
improvement [and] mobile data leadership”, he admitted that the share
of mobile data revenues actually fell in the quarter, which he attributed
to “strong growth in voice revenues”.
The mmO2 chief reiterated that the operator was not in merger talks with
Germany’s E-Plus, a KPN subsidiary, though he said that “lines of communication
were still open.”
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