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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News not looking good for 3
May 19, 2003
3 UK may not survive past 2006, having been broken up or sold off by
then or earlier, market researchers Enders Analysis predicted in a report
in the London Independent.
The newspaper reported last week that the troubled operator’s published
10,000 subscribers may not represent a true estimate of subscriptions
if freebies handed out to staff, VIPs, family and friends, as well as
returned handsets are taken into account.
The operator has had numerous technical problems since its January launch,
and the analysts predict that the company will attract around 84,000 subscribers
by the end of 2003, although the researchers’ worst-case scenario prediction
is that 3 will end the year with just 30,000 subscribers - far lower than
the company’s own prediction of one million subscribers by the end of
the year, and lower even than the number of subscribers sister 3G network
3 Italy has already signed up.
The newspaper is also reporting that other analysts have been kinder
in their predictions: Citigroup analysts think that the company will have
300,000 subscribers by the end of the year, and that the company will
make its first EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation,
and amortization) profit by 2008, at which point they expect 3 to have
5.5m subscribers.
The Enders analysts also worry that 3 may not be profitable for another
five to seven years. Even by 2010, the analysts say that the company may
be losing £158million and £406million. The researchers believe that if
this begins to happen, that the company may even be broken up or sold
off - something that could happen "as early as the end of 2003, but more
likely within the 2004 to 2005 period."
3 Italy, which aims to sign up 1 million people to its Italian 3G service
by the end of the year, had 64,000 subscribers by the end of April, the
head of its Italian unit said on Friday.
Vincenzo Novari, chief executive of 3 Italia, said H3G Italia was activating
1,000-1,500 new accounts per day.
At that rate H3G would notch up a further 365,000 users by the end of
2003, falling short of its goal of 1 million.
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