NTT DOCOMO Subscribers Top 60 Million

NTT DOCOMO's mobile subscriber base surpassed the 60 million mark on March 11. The figure includes customers who subscribe to DOCOMO’s LTE, 3G and 2G mobile services.Milestones in the growth of DOCOMODecember 1979: LaunchFebruary 1993: 1 millionFebruary 1997: 10 millionAugust 1998: 20 millionApril 2000: 30 millionJanuary 2002: 40 millionNovember 2005: 50 millionMarch 2012: 60 millionhttp://www.ntt.co...

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Funambol Pitches White-label Personal Cloud Service

Funambol, a start-up based in Foster City, California, launched its white-label personal cloud solution for mobile providers.Funambol's OneMediaHub enables mobile operators, device makers and other providers to offer a branded digital locker service for millions of users. Unlike simple file depository lockers, OneMediaHub automatically secures, syncs and shares content across multiple brands of devices, including PCs.Funambol allows the carrier to...

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Australia-Japan Cable to Implement 40 Gbps with Ciena

Ciena has been selected to upgrade the Australia-Japan undersea cable system, which runs approximately 12,700 kilometers between Sydney, Guam and Japan. The Australia Japan Cable (AJC) will deploy Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with 40G technology, enabling the system to add a total of 560 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of capacity. The deployment will also give AJC the ability to scale to 100G wavelengths as bandwidth demands evolve. The upgrade...

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Clearwire Lands 5-Year LTE Wholesale Deal with Cricket

Cricket Communications and Clearwire announced a five-year wholesale agreement for access to Clearwire's forthcoming LTE Advanced-ready network. Financial terms were not disclosed.Cricket currently plans to deploy LTE across approximately two-thirds of its current network footprint over the next two to three years and to cover up to approximately 25 million POPs with LTE network technology in 2012.Cricket will become the second operator to have signed...

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Verizon Wireless On Track to Double LTE Coverage in 2012

Verizon Wireless reported that it is on track to double the market coverage of its LTE network this year. The network is expanding this week to 17 new markets across the country, making its LTE service available in 203 markets. By the end of the year, this number is expected to exceed 400."Our plans to double our 4G LTE network coverage from the end of 2011 to the end of 2012 align with the aggressive and rapid deployment strategy we have taken with...

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Bharti Airtel Aims for Greener Footprint in Africa

Bharti Airtel announced a commitment to a greener environmental profile including for its operations in Africa. The company said that over last one year, it has reduced the number of telecom sites running solely on diesel by more than 50%. By 2013, the Bharti Airtel aims to completely eradicate the constant use of diesel to power its network. This means no telecom site of the company will rely solely on diesel power 24 hours a day. Bharti Airtel...

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Seaborn Networks Plans 32 Tbps Cable

Seaborn Networks announced plans for a direct route undersea cable system between Miami and Brazil. Seabras-1 will be a 32 Tbps system that connects Miami and Sao Paulo, with a branch that lands in Fortaleza, Brazil. Activation is scheduled for 2014.Seaborn is headed by Larry Schwartz (CEO), who previously was one of the owners of Bridgehouse Marine Ltd., which operates one of the largest fleets of cable ships in the world. Larry led the acquisition...

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