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RSS operator in newsNTL cost cutting yields Q1 boost
News NTL posted Q1 revenues of £622m, up from £586m in the previous quarter, and said it expects to meet its 2001 targets of 1.25m digital subscribers and 100,000 cable subscribers. NTL's profits before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization... [08 May 2001]
US 3G furore takes latest twist
News Following months of confrontation, the Federal Communications Commission has returned a percentage of the deposits paid by US mobile network operators for licences that were never officially available for auction. [02 Apr 2002]
One2One announces 1,000 jobs boost for Scotland
News The centre, One2One's sixth UK customer service centre, will be developed by Akeler - the company responsible for building One2One's Greenock, Doxford, Dearne Valley and Merthyr Tydfil sites. Construction is expected to begin within the next few... [18 Sep 2000]
365 Corporation cuts losses
News The latest quarterly results from 365 Corporation show that the company's determined effort to cut costs appears to be working. Operating losses have been squeezed from £6.45m in March of this year to £3.74m in June, though revenues were down from... [30 Aug 2001]
Orange customers hit by delays to SMS services
News Content providers are still waiting for reverse-billed text messaging from Orange, nearly three months after the services were originally meant to go live. Reverse-billed SMS allows a third party content provider to send a subscriber a message, and... [28 Mar 2002]
Cisco forges VOIP alliance
News Networks are planned in at least five European towns. Financial details of the business alliance still have to be finalised by the two companies. Analysts have speculated that part of the deal might involve Cisco investing in UPC, which has debts... [23 Jan 2001]
Sprint and Nextel in '$70bn' merger talks
News US mobile operators Sprint and Nextel are in preliminary merger talks which could lead to the creation of America's third largest mobile company, according to press reports. A merger between the two companies could be worth up to $70bn, according... [10 Dec 2004]
Morning Edition: Still Blu, Autonomy boost and Cyber village in crisis
News Blu controversially brought the Italian 3G licence auction to an abrupt halt when shareholder infighting saw the company withdraw from the bidding. The sudden end kept the money raised by the auction to a relatively meagre £7bn and as such the... [25 Oct 2000]
France Telecom revenue up; Orange share price set
News A share price of E9.5 has been set for individual investors following pressure last week from investors, which forced France Telecom to cut the pricing range from E11.5 to E13.5 (£7.3 to £8.6) to E9.5 to E11 (£6 to £7). [13 Feb 2001]
T-Online faces shake-up from Deutsche Telekom
News According to reports in the Financial Times, the new division, called T-Online International will be responsible for managing the telco's French ISP Club Internet, Spain's Ya.com and T-Online Germany. [24 Oct 2000]
Excite@Home pulls out of Chello merger
News The falling share price of Chello's parent company United Pan-Europe Communications meant Chello was unable to proceed with the deal as it stood. After examining the available options, Excite has decided to pull out altogether. [05 Dec 2000]
Telia heads for showdown with regulator over auction failure
News Last month, PTS, the authority that regulates the radio, telecom and communications industries in Sweden, decided to award UMTS licences to Europolitan, HI3G, Orange and Tele2 and reject Telia's bid. The decision meant the firm was the only carrier... [02 Jan 2001]
O2: The future's WiMax?
News While O2 announced the launch of its 3G business service this week and while it may be able to differentiate itself with Wi-Fi, its 3G data services notch up precisely the same speed as all its rivals. [29 Sep 2004]
Verticalnet results dash profitability hopes
News Losses increased to $28.5m - 32 cents a share. While the loss is down on third quarter results of $29.9m, it did not meet analysts fourth quarter predictions of 19 cents a share. Revenue for the quarter was $40.7m. [23 Feb 2001]
Telia takes Swedish regulator to court over UMTS
News Telia claims the regulator made a series of faults regarding formalities of the UMTS distribution process and incorrect technical calculations. In a statement, Marianne Nivert, president and CEO of Telia, accused the regulator of not evaluating the... [08 Jan 2001]
