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Page 1: E magazine July

Issue 7 I July 2013

www.carriercommunity.com

Wholesales Industry & Community News

Carrier Communitye-magazine

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Editorial

Content

CEO at Carrier CommunityWida Schmidt

Wida Schmidt, CEO

Special GCCM ReportAttended CarriersAttended Carriers Delegates Profiles GCCM Singapore PicturesWholesale Industry NewsCommunity News

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Dear Readers,

I am delighted once again to announce the July 2013 e-magazine edition. In the July issue we have outlined details about our forthcoming ENPM 2013 event hosted by Orange to be taken place on 10-12th September 2013 in Paris as well as captures information about some industry recent news and reports.The final page of this issue highlights the name of the carriers that have recently joined our club and club Annual events.

ENPM 2013 in Paris

Our club is organising for the 3rd time in a row successfully the exclusive Annual European Network Planning Meeting (ENPM). This year the event is taken place in Paris from 10-12th September hosted by Orange and sponsored by Oracle/ Acme Packet, Dialogic and Network Mining. We are once again proud to be the organiser of this exclusive club’s event. We expect more than 120+ guests representing CTOs, Network Planners and Capacity Management as well as Operation executives. Fantastic after event evening reception dinner parties are organised for all delegate guests.

Industry news

Once again, we have picked up a few telecom related industry news to keep our members informed about the latest news happening in our industry.

Members joined

New members are joining our club every month. This month once again we have included the company names recently joined. As of today we have qualified more than 2600 carrier executives representing 1300+ carriers in 120+ countries worldwide.

Coming soon

Carrier Community will launch its new GCCM event website with efficient structure, additional event related details and easy to navigate mechanism. Carrier Community is also planning to introduce one more GCCM event in 2014 enabling the club to extend its reach to CIS, Middle-East as well as Euro-Asia regions. More details will be published soon.

Our members feedback and comments are very important for us so please write to us so that we can further improve the services and grow this exclusive and global club.

Once again BIG THANK YOU for all your support and trust.

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ENPM news

50+ Carriers Participate in the 9th Annual European Network Planning Meeting (ENPM) 2013, ParisOperators come together to shape the future of European telecoms at ENPM 2013, a carrier-exclusive business and networking event

Sarnen, Switzerland – August 02, 2013Carrier Community, an exclusive global wholesale carrier club for mobile, voice, data, telehouse, datacenter, is happy to announce that more than 50 carriers will be attending this year’s European Network Planning Meeting (ENPM) in Paris. The event is being organised by Carrier Community and brings together executives from leading telecoms carriers from around the world.

The event will be hosted on September 10-12, 2013 with a full agenda of meetings, networking, keynote speeches and sponsored dinners. It brings the telecom operators together to facilitate efficient exchange of information regarding the current and future network resources, discuss interconnection requirements and developments in new technologies to interconnect, create bilateral agreements and shape the future of the European telecoms market.

ENPM is an exclusive event for carriers’ network planning as well as capacity management departments with the aim of giving executives a platform to share information and network. It was created to support carriers as they do business in Europe and provides them with an environment that is solely focused on carrier business. Orange hosts this year’s event with additional support from sponsors such as AcmePacket, NetworkMining and Dialogic. Each of these sponsors will provide keynote speeches throughout the three-day event.

ENPM 2013-Bilateral meetings over three days-Informative keynote sessions focused on carrier business and network planning-Extended networking time at the venue and beyond-Access to the leading carriers in the world

Sponsorship opportunities and registration are still available. Please contact the Carrier Community team for more information at [email protected] or visit www.carriercommunity.com

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Wholesale Industry News

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has warned that it is expecting to make a loss in 3Q13. It said in a state-ment that operating margin for the forthcoming quarter is expected to be in the range of zero per cent to negative eight per cent.

HTC posted quarterly revenue of NT$70.7bn ($2.35bn) for 2Q13, 22 per cent less than it made in the same period last year, when it generated NT$91.04bn.

Net profit fell a stagger-ing 83 per cent year on year, from NT$7.4bn in 2Q12 to just NT$1.25bn in 2Q13.

HTC’s business in the US saw sequential growth in the quarter as well as expansion in retail channels, the firm said, adding that EMEA saw “renewed strength in major Western European markets and emerging countries”.

The firm also said its re-cently launched HTC One device performed well in the market, better than its flag-ship products in the same period last year. It said the device has also helped the company establish strong

Source: www.cellular-news.com

O2 prepares to switch on LTE1st August 2013

The UK arm of Telefonica, O2, has announced that it will launch LTE services later this month. The network will be switched on in the cities of London, Leeds and Bradford on 29th August.

The operator claims LTE net-work coverage will extend to up to five million people at launch and will be made available to an additional two million people per month until its 2G, 3G and 4G network reaches 98 per cent of the UK population.

LTE services will be available to all new and existing customers on a range of tariffs starting from £26 per month for a SIM-only deal, and O2 said it will divulge further pricing information later this month. Customers who sign up for 4G services directly from O2 will be offered a 30 day satis-faction guarantee.

EE is the only operator to have launched LTE services in the UK, after it switched on its net-work late October last year using its refarmed 1800MHz spectrum. The operator said that it has since seen a 10 per cent increase in ARPU for LTE services over 3G.

It was not until February this year that the rest of the mar-ket was able to secure spectrum for 4G services, when regulator Ofcom held the UK spectrum auction. O2 spent £550m on

2x10MHz of 800MHz; Ofcom attached a coverage obligation to that lot of spectrum to pro-vide services for indoor recep-tion to at least 98 per cent of the UK population by the end of 2017.

“Digital connectivity will be made ubiquitous by 4G and become the oxygen of modern life,” said Ronan Dunne, CEO of Telefónica UK (O2). “It is our intention to use 4G to in-spire the nation through the possibilities of technology, en-couraging people to live more, do more and be more with O2.”

Ovum analyst Steven Hartley said competition would be wel-come in UK LTE services but stressed that EE has established a significant lead in terms of coverage. “Although details of O2’s LTE plans are lacking in today’s announcement, we like O2’s ‘30 day Happiness Guar-antee’, in which dissatisfied cus-tomers can switch to a 3G plan if LTE fails to meet their needs,” Hartley said. “Getting LTE in the hands of users so that they can experience the benefits of the technology has been one of the key challenges for operators around the world and this ap-proach allows hesitant custom-ers to take the plunge.”

brand awareness and as a re-sult it has regained “super-phone” market share across major markets including Chi-na.

The vendor also has plans underway to launch a range of mid-tier products in the com-ing months.

“My leadership team con-tinues to focus on execu-tion,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC. “We are seeing ex-pected results as we fill the channels and meet demand for the new HTC One. As we broaden our focus to include a new member of the HTC One family, the recently announced One mini, we are looking for-ward to delivering great prod-ucts and results in [the second half of the year].”

The loss warning suggests that smartphone vendors are struggling to keep up with market leaders Apple and Samsung. Japanese vendor NEC announced this week that it would cease the produc-tion and sale of smartphones, admitting that it is “difficult to foresee improved perfor-mance in the future”.

HTC warns of quarterly loss1st August 2013

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Wholesale Industry News

3UK triples half-year operating profitThe UK arm of operator group Hutchison Whampoa said it has

more than tripled its operating profit year on year during the first half of 2013. 3UK generated £86m in the first half of 2013, a 231 per cent increase on the £26m it pocketed in the first half of 2012.

Total revenue grew nine per cent to £1bn in 1H13 compared with £918m in 1H12. The operator’s EBITDA margin grew from 11.8 per cent in 1H12 to 18.8 per cent in 1H13, which the firm attributed to growing customer numbers and effective cost management.

3UK added 168,000 net new customers in the second quarter of the year, bringing active customers to over 7.5 million – a ten per cent increase year-on-year. According to the firm, this growth largely came from high-value contract smartphone customers.

CFO Richard Woodward said that the performance was driven by new, high-value smartphone customers and a continued focus on cost efficiency.

“We’re attracting more and more customers, but importantly these are very engaged customers, delivering growth to the bottom line.”

August 1st 2013

The operator said that its store upgrade programme and advances in its online capability helped direct contract smartphone sales grow to 87 per cent, adding that its prepay customer base also grew, despite an industry wide decline.

“We believe the prepay market presents a real opportunity for growth and we’re looking forward to growing our share with the UK’s simplest, clearest and best value prepay offer,” added Woodward.

The operator is currently preparing to launch LTE services after acquiring 2 x 5 MHz of 800 MHz for £225m in the February 2013 UK LTE spectrum auction. Prior to that it also acquired 2X15MHz of 1800MHz spectrum from rival EE, in line with the European Commission’s competitive assessment of the merger of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK in March 2010.

However, a source close to both EE and 3UK told Telecoms.com that 3UK could face a wait until October 2013 before it is able to launch services using the spectrum.

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Wholesale Industry News

Google’s apparent U-turn on net neutrality raises definition issuesAugust 1st 2013

In a move that appears to fly in the face of its support for net neutrality, Google this week filed a document with US regulator the FCC stating that customers of its fibre to the home network were limited in what kind of de-vices or applications they could attach to those connections. But is the situation as clear cut as it seems?

At one time Google positioned itself as a strong advocate of net neutrality. Back in 2009 the com-pany even collaborated with the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium, to come up with a way of measuring the ‘openness’ of communications networks, in a bid to help poli-cy makers and regulators make more informed decisions.

The concept of net neutrality is a hotly debated and controversial issue, with the content and appli-cation providers of the internet world accusing broadband net-work operators of acting as gate-keepers, preventing consumers from enjoying the full range of innovation and choice available through the open internet.

But the FCC filing this week,

www.cellular-news.com

in response to a citizen request that Google modify its terms of service, explicitly states that Google Fiber customers are not allowed to connect servers of any kind to that network.

Kansas resident Douglas McClendon, who it should be pointed out is not a Google Fiber user and does not live in the current service area, filed a complaint with the FCC claim-ing that Google Fiber’s server policy violates the Open Inter-net Order and is seeking to have the “‘no server hosting of any kind allowed’ clause removed from Google Fiber’s terms of service.

The Open Internet Order is a set of regulations that move towards the establishment of the internet neutrality concept based on four principles includ-ing two which state:

Consumers should be allowed to run applications and use ser-vices of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement.

Consumers should be able to connect their choice of legal de-vices that do not harm the net-work.

This is clearly what McClen-

don is basing his argument on and in his complaint he express-es his desire to host a server for use in his business on a prospec-tive Google Fiber connection.

The claim has echoes of Skype’s 2007 invocation of an American legal precedent known as the Carterfone de-cision in its own battle for net neutrality. Carterphone dates back to 1968 when federal regu-lators issued a landmark ruling that allowed Americans to own the telephones in their homes. In effect, it allows customers to attach any devices to the phone network, provided they do not damage it.

This is where some of the in-dustry’s media are saying Goog-le has flip-flopped on its net neutrality support by refusing McClendon’s wishes. But is that really the case?

Google Fiber does not cur-rently support business use of its service, it is explicitly for consumer use only. What’s more, a level of service (up to 5Mbps uplink) is provided free of charge following a $300 con-struction fee. Google isn’t re-quired to offer free service, it’s

doing it by choice. Not that any of this should have any impact on net neutrality anyway.

Google is not alone in stating that customers are banned from connecting servers to its network, the country’s leading broadband providers like AT&T and Verizon have similar clauses in their terms of service and the carriers routine-ly turn a blind eye to applications which could be considered ‘serv-ers’ in the form of multi-player gaming and video-conferencing.

A big part of the argument about net neutrality revolves around vo-cabulary and definition and what McClendon and Google have illus-trated here is that there needs to be more definition around the types of servers that can be attached to consumer broadband networks. With so many internet connected devices appearing in homes, many of which – set top boxes, media players, games consoles and PCs – could easily be considered physi-cal servers alongside a great many interactive or collaborative ap-plications, the industry might be prompted to look at its definitions and terms of service in greater de-tail.

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Wholesale Industry News

AT&T buys up regional assets; Verizon faces opposition in Canada

Switzerland’s Sunrise Buys Low-Cost MVNO

Long Lines, a US commu-nications provider serving the Siouxland region, has agreed to sell its wireless network as-sets and transfer its Long Lines Wireless subscribers to AT&T Mobility.

AT&T has also agreed to pur-chase transport services from Long Lines utilising its fibre network. The transaction does not affect any of Long Lines’ non-wireless network services. Prior to the sale, Long Lines Wireless customers will see no changes in their services or their wireless bills, the regional opera-tor said.

“Regional wireless providers have limited access to the latest smartphones and other devices, and it has become increasingly difficult for Long Lines Wireless to meet the digital mobile needs of our customers,” said Brent Olson, Long Lines’ CEO.

“We concluded that Long Lines could best serve our cus-tomers by focusing our atten-tion and investing our resources in providing new features for our non-wireless services in-cluding voice, broadband ser-vices, and cable TV, and in ex-panding our fibre optic network to reach more communities and customers.”

July 30th 2013

August 1st 2013Switzerland’s Sunrise Com-

munications has acquired the Swiss prepaid operator Ortel Mobile. Together with its own brand yallo and the announced acquisition of Lebara, Sunrise said that it has strengthened in the low cost international calls and data services market.

Ortel Mobile Switzerland, founded in 2011, focuses on mo-bile prepaid services with strong customer needs for low cost in-ternational tariffs for calls from Switzerland to abroad. The com-pany was privately held and is a licensee of KPN who owns the Ortel Mobile brand.

Sunrise will continue to oper-

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Meanwhile, AT&T rival Ve-rizon Communications is facing hostility from a Canadian union after local reports suggested the country’s government offered the carrier the opportunity to acquire 700MHz spectrum in the country. The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada said it stridently opposes the gov-ernment’s move.

“Granting one of the biggest companies in the world special rights to public airwaves (spec-trum), to buy small players and to existing companies’ networks may be the most ill conceived policy the Harper government has come up with,” said CEP president Dave Coles.

“In its ideological crusade to open the telecommunications sec-tor up to foreign ownership the Conservatives are ‘gaming the rules’ in favour of a major US-based multinational.” He added that if the government is really concerned about protecting wire-less consumers it should simply regulate pricing and contract rules.

“Instead they are hell bent on foreign ownership of this country’s telco sector, which is bad for Can-ada’s workers, security and culture. Discounting spectrum for a mega rich US based company is ludi-crous,” Coles said.

www.technobuffalo.com

www.cellular-news.com

ate Ortel Mobile as a separate company with its existing em-ployees. Ortel Mobile services will be offered under the exist-ing Ortel Mobile brand, focus-ing on very particular customer segments with specialized needs for national and international mobile calls.

Libor Voncina, CEO of Sun-rise, comments: “With the ac-quisition of Ortel Mobile and the acquisition of Lebara earlier in July, Sunrise further strength-ens its customer focus for pre-paid mobile services in general and its footprint in multicultural communities in particular.”

India's Bharti Airtel has re-ported its first-fiscal quarter financials and saw revenues rise by 9.9 percent as its core Indian market stabilised after a couple of years of shrinkage.

Consolidated revenues at Rs 20,264 crore grew by 9.2%, over the corresponding period last year, led by 10.9% growth in Indian mobile revenues, 34% in Digital TV, 17.9% in B2B and 37.1% in South Asia.

Reported International reve-nues comprising of Africa and South Asia operations grew by 4.6% Y-o-Y in local currency terms.

However, the company still posted its 14th consecutive quarter of declining profits. Net profits came in at Rs 689 crore, as against Rs 762 crore in the corresponding quarter

Bharti Airtel Profits Decline Although Indian Revenues Stabilising

last year.In a statement, Mr. Sunil

Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said: "Our results for the quarter reflect the overall sta-bility of our operations, and demonstrate the potential for growth, particularly seeing ro-bust data growth across all ge-ographies. Results for Airtel In-dia reflect rationality returning to the sector which needs to be complemented by a more ena-bling regulatory environment for a deeper penetration of tel-ecom and broadband services."

Following the additional equi-ty infusion by Qatar Foundation Endowment and after consid-ering the full debt in the Qual-comm subsidiaries, the consoli-dated net debt has decreased by $908 million during the quarter to close at US$9.8 billion.

1st Aug 2013

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Members Joined

Community News

New members from the following carriers joint the club recently. To learn more about them, please visit our online member directory.

Upcoming Annual Events

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