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The prices mobile operators charge for fixed-line-to-mobile and for mobile-to-mobile interconnection are expected to fall by half over the next four years, says Philip Townsend, a telecoms analyst at Natexis Bleichroeder, a brokerage.
Calltrunk can record and store conversations made via any phone - fixed line or mobile - and has currently amassed more than 20, 000 customers worldwide after just over a year of operation.
On 18 October, he supplied new evidence from both American and Russian sources that the Russian military is engaged in the fabrication and construction of new road-mobile and fixed-site land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with multiple reentry vehicles (MIRVs), among other, troubling offensive activities.
On 18 October, he supplied new evidence -- from both American and Russian sources -- that the Russian military is engaged in the fabrication and construction of new road-mobile and fixed-site land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with multiple reentry vehicles (MIRVs), among other, troubling offensive activities.
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Until then, all areas of Brazil will have at least two rival operators for both fixed-line and mobile services.
He likes this Indonesian provider of fixed-line, mobile and data communications even though it delivered disappointing results in its first quarter.
So Dhanin is shaking up his empire, focusing on core operations: agri-business, retail and TelecomAsia, which operates fixed-line and mobile phone networks.
He told Forbes.com that social networking could bridge the gap between fixed-line and mobile networks, from broadband at home to mobile data transmission.
In a change from previous policy, all four will be allowed to compete across the board, from fixed-line and mobile communications to business and data services.
In the late 1990s, they turned Mr Wu's ministry into a regulator and split the operations into four companies one each for fixed-line, mobile, paging and satellite services.
Given the tough operating climate and reductions in dividends, the Stoxx Europe 600 Telecommunications index, made up of 20 fixed-line and mobile telecom companies from across Europe, has fallen 4.1% over the past year.
But with NTL due to change its name to Virgin Media next year, NTL also has UK commercial broadcaster ITV in its sights as a takeover target, part of its plans to offer television as well as broadband, fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services.
If their attempts achieve lower transfers to the fixed-line networks, mobile networks could get more swamped.
"The potential impact is no smaller than the shift from fixed-line phones to mobile phones, " he said.
Consumers will experience an impressive upgrade in services and performance -- on all Internet-enabled fixed and mobile devices connected via LTE.
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But a daunting task remained: to replace the declining fixed-line revenue with mobile and broadband services in one of Europe's most competitive markets.
Many fixed-term contracts for mobile phones, broadband and landline services have small print in their terms and conditions allowing prices to be put up, with at least 30 days' notice.
The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
Politically, however, selling Telecom Italia to a foreign company is probably still unacceptable. (Only one European telecoms incumbent, Sonera of Finland, has ever fallen into foreign hands.) Because Telecom Italia's profits in both its fixed-line and its mobile business depend on regulation, good relations with the government are crucial.
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In Egypt, operators often depend on Telecom Egypt's fixed-line infrastructure to carry their mobile services.
We don't expect the status quo to budge much in the near future, whether it's on mobile or a fixed-line.
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China Telecom has long been looking for an opening to diversify out of the stagnant fixed-line business into the mushrooming mobile sector.
Elsewhere, regulators have chosen to allocate the funds to extending fixed-line networks, rather than cheaper mobile networks.
If current trends are any indication, mobile revenues will overtake total fixed-line revenues by 2004.
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Two smaller markets are for people living in relatively unpopulated corners of the globe who need a basic mobile service or semi-fixed pay-phones.
From now on, traditional fixed-line operators will no longer look down on mobile folk.
This is a convergence of mobile portability with the speed and multifunctionality of fixed-line broadband.
In their 30-year life they installed 10m fixed lines and registered 1m mobile phones.
In its last results, Virgin said it had three million users of its television services, 3.4 million broadband customers, 4.5 million subscribers to its mobile phone service and 4.1 million fixed-line telephone customers.
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