NTT Sees Gains in Optical Access as Fixed Voice Continues to Drag

The steady decline in revenue from fixed voice services outpaced revenue gains in optical access services, leading NTT to report a 1.8% drop in net profit during a quarter marked by recovery from Japan's historic earthquake on March 11. Quarterly revenue came in at 2.537 trillion yen for the period ending June 30, up 1.5% compared with a year earlier as the company's international business expanded.



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NTT DOCOMO Now Has Over 205,000 LTE Subscribers

As of the end of July, NTT DOCOMO was serving 205,700 Xi LTE subscribers, up by 84,300 for the quarter. The company was also serving 57,508,200 FOMA 3G subscribers, up by 184,200. http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp

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TELUS Q2 Revenue Rises 6.4% YoY

Driven by a nearly 10 per cent growth in wireless revenue and three per cent growth in wireline revenue, TELUS reported Q2 revenue of $2.55 billion, an increase of 6.4 per cent over the same period last year. EBITDA of $950 million increased by almost three per cent due to revenue growth, offset in part by higher costs to acquire and retain wireless customers and to support Optik TV growth. Net income and earnings per share (EPS) for the second quarter were $324 million and $0.99, representing year-over-year increases of 7.3 and 5.3 per cent, respectively.


Some highlights:


The company added 94,000 new wireless subscribers in the quarter.


Wireless data revenue surged by 49 per cent, which more than offset declining voice revenues, resulting in wireless average revenue per unit (ARPU) growth of 2.5 per cent.


In the wireline segment, the company added 46,000 TV customers to surpass the 400,000 subscriber milestone. Combined with 13,000 new high-speed Internet subscribers this performance helped generate wireline data revenue growth of 14 per cent.


TELUS boosted its guidance for consolidated revenues by $200 to $300 million based on increases in both the wireless and wireline business segments. Capital expenditures are also increased from approximately $1.7 billion to approximately $1.8 billion, primarily reflecting an increase in this year's investment in the LTE rollout.
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CalTech Researchers Announce Breakthrough Optical Diode

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have created a silicon waveguide that channels light in only one direction. Standard waveguides are bi-directional. The break through, described in a paper in the journal 'Science', is a major step forward for optical logic chips. The next step is to build an optical isolator that can be integrated onto a silicon chip.http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13441

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ZTE Builds Metro Ethernet Transport in the Philippines

ZTE has been selected to build a metro Ethernet transport network CEN (Carrier Ethernet Network) project for the Philippines' largest mobile carrier, Smart Communications. The nationwide backbone will use ZTE's ZXCTN 9008/9004 IP transport products for several core and convergence rings.


Smart is the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Philippines' largest carrier PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company), of which Japan's NTTCom holds 21% of PLDT shares. Smart operates mobile services and has 50 million 2G/3G users. PLDT plans to establish an LTE network covering 95% of the country's population within three years. http://www.zte.com.cn

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