Western Europe’s wireless and mobile services providers have cut their quarterly spending for second fiscal quarter by 19 percent. The cut back in overall spending comes after the lacklustre performance in mobile telecommunications business in the continent. The aggravated Euro zone economy and debt crisis has affected the telecom business deeper than anyone expected. Mobile […]
Sep 27 2012 | Posted in
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has eased the cable television providers’ way for going deeper into the consumer market. The Commission waived off the rules that bounded the cable operators to seek reviews and thereafter approval of local regulators for acquisition of smaller CLECs, competitive local exchange carriers. “Today’s FCC action was helpful to cable companies […]
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BroadSoft, the developers of mobile communications platforms, beat the expectations on quarterly revenues polled by analysts. Despite the slow economy and low spending budgets of the cellular carriers, the company not only made good sums of profits in the US but all over the world, especially in Europe. Europe is worth mentioning because the region […]
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Gradual decline of sports in Pakistan In Pakistan, a country that had a rich culture of sports in the recent past, is losing its status in this field at international level, which is quite alarming and will have a greater impact on the future of games in every corner of the country. In 1994, Pakistan […]
By now, it’s well understood that the iPhone is a double-edged sword for the wireless carriers. On one side, Apple’s smartphone is a pricey device to carry, requiring an unusually high subsidy that carriers must pay to keep it affordable enough for the masses. On the other, it leads to more loyal customers who pay […]
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The demand for the iPhone is staggering. Verizon, for instance, said on Tuesday it activated 4.3 million iPhones, or more than half of the smartphones sold in the period. Most of those activations came from existing customers; Verizon added 1.2 million net new contract customers. All of that came at a cost. After taking out […]
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