Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Intel has increased its involvement in telcos offering or planning to offer WiMAX services with investments in Egypt and the Netherlands.
Intel's venture capital arm, Intel Capital, has set up a joint venture, Orascom Telecom WiMAX Limited, with Orascom Telecom of Egypt, and a joint venture with Enertel Holding of the Netherlands, Worldmax. The Egyptian joint venture is the first investment from the Intel Capital Middle East and Turkey Fund announced last November.
Intel says that both deals "will bring significant experience of network deployment, marketing and operations to the newly formed joint ventures". Intel Capital last year took a $A37 million 25 percent stake in Australian pre-WiMAX operator, Unwired which has over 50,000 customers on its network in Sydney.
Orascom Telecom WiMAX will focus its efforts on working with governments and companies throughout the Middle East and parts of Asia to obtain suitable spectrum licenses for the deployment of WiMAX services. Worldmax is targeting the deployment of WiMAX services in the Netherlands. Local partner, Enertel will contribute funds, personnel and 80MHz of 3.5GHz spectrum throughout the Netherlands.
Neither the dollar value nor Intel's equity stake in either of the ventures was disclosed, but Intel said both would be majority owned by the other partner.
In addition to its investment in Unwired, Intel in April signed an MoU with Asia-Pacific regional ISP, Pacific Internet, to develop mobile WiMax infrastructure in Singapore, and the region and earlier this month announced plans to trial WiMAX for the delivery of TV and video services with UK-based digital pay-TV provider NDS Group.
In January, Intel signed an MoU with Korea's Posdata under which the two companies agreed to speed up the worldwide deployment of Mobile WiMAX technology and its Korean variant, WiBro and to cooperate to develop products and solutions based on the two standards.
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