América Móvil Reaches 183 Million Mobile Users

América Móvil added 10.1 million subscribers in Q4 2008 -- the most it has ever added for a given quarter -- giving it a total of 182.7 million across all of the Latin American countries it serves. Net additions were 3.5% higher than those of the same period of last year. In Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador net additions were up by 87%,36% and 34%, respectively relative to the previous year. In the latter two countries, as in Mexico and Brazil, the...

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Infineon reports Sequential Quarterly Revenue Drop of 28%

Infineon Technologies reported revenues of Euro 830 million, down 28 percent sequentially and 24 percent year-over-year, for the quarter ending 31-Dec-2008. The sequential decrease reflects a decline in revenues in all of the company's operating segments due to significantly lower demand as a result of the global economic slow-down and inventory corrections throughout the electronics supply-chain. The company's Automotive and Wireless Solutions segments were most severely affected. Overall, the company's revenues were slightly better than forecasted,...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Debuts Multiradio Base Station

Nokia Siemens Networks introduced its Flexi Multiradio Base Station aimed at making the evolution from 2G and 3G to LTE faster, greener and more cost-effective. The new product builds on the company's Flexi Base Station platform by adding support to cover GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE - all running concurrently in a single unit.A key feature of the Flexi Multiradio Base Station is the ability for new and existing 2G and 3G operators to use their...

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Corning Issues 2009 Forecast, Sees Strength in FTTH

Corning is prepared for a prolonged recession, "but well positioned in key growth markets to take advantage of opportunities when the economy turns," Wendell P. Weeks, chairman and chief executive officer, said at the company's annual investor conference in New York. The company has already taken a number of steps to lower its costs, including eliminating temporary and contract worker positions, extending manufacturing shutdowns, adopting a zero-based...

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Chunghwa Telecom Selects Ericsson for Next-generation Optical Network

Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent operator in Taiwan, has selected Ericsson to deploy a metro aggregation network for supporting its high-capacity broadband services, such as IPTV and e-health, for both fixed and mobile access. Specifically, CHT has chosen Ericsson's Marconi Optical Multi-Service (OMS) solution as a key component in ties network. The OMS solution plays an important role in lowering the transport costs (per bit) by aggregating and grooming traffic in the metro network, with support for both telephony (TDM: Time-Division Multiplexing)...

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Denmark's TDC to Test NEC's Femtocell

TDC Mobile A/S, Denmark's largest mobile operator, is preparing for a potential roll-out of the NEC Femtocell solution in late 2009. The companies are conducting a friendly user trial involving several Femtocell Access Points deployed in consumer locations and connected to TDC's commercial core network system.TDC will offer its customers a small low-power plug-and-play consumer device (Femtocell Access Point) to enable localized 3G coverage and dedicated capacity in their home while using their broadband connection as a backhaul.NEC said it has...

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