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PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For May 10, 2007
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Deutsche Telekom's 1st-quarter Profit Plunges 58% to $459 Million
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24283?11228
FRANKFURT, Germany - Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's biggest
telecommunications company, said Thursday that its first-quarter
profit dropped 58 percent as more than half a million customers
abandoned its fixed-line business in Germany in favor of cheaper
rivals. The results came as services union ver.di said its
membership had ...
Euro Carriers Suffer Profits Dip
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24280?11228
Europe's telecom operators have experienced a tough start to
2007, with a number of carriers all over Europe reporting a slump
in profits for the first three months of the year. Increasing
competition, pricing pressure, and operating cost issues have all
played their parts in depressing the profit margins of a number
of ...
Palm Adds Microsoft Push to Treo
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24277?11228
Palm is out with a new Treo for the Sprint network. It may look
like some previous Palm Treos, but the new Treo 755p has some new
wrinkles, including push e-mail via Microsoft Exchange servers
and a built-in mapping application. The 755p, which Sprint
expects to start selling by the end of the month for $279.99, is
the ...
Telenor Gobbles Up Tele2's Danish Ops
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24275?11228
Sweden's Tele2 AB is selling all of its operations in Denmark to
competitor Telenor, saying that, in the future, it wants to
concentrate more on infrastructure-based operations. Telenor is
paying a shade less than $151 million for the Tele2 unit, which
at the end of last year had 75,000 broadband customers; 206,000
...
Clearwire: The Big Spend
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24273?11228
Wireless broadband provider Clearwire LLC is spending big,
growing fast, and losing money hand-over-fist in its bid to
become one of the key WiMax players in the U.S. The Kirkland,
Wash.-based firm, which is reporting its first quarterly results
after its initial public offering, lost $92.6 million, or 64
cents a share, on ...
Motorola Settles with SEC for $25M Over Role in Adelphia's Inflated Earnings
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/24266?11228
WASHINGTON - Cell phone maker Motorola Inc. has agreed to pay $25
million (euro 18.5 million) to settle federal complaints that it
knew, or should have known Adelphia Communications Corp. misused
a marketing agreement between the two companies to inflate its
earnings. Adelphia paid money to ...
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