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Despite speculations that Google would eventually favour upcoming Motorola mobile devices, Mr Pichette issued assurances that as agreed with global regulators, Android will remain an open platform that is readily available to handset vendors.
With or without the eyes watching over on how Google will behave over the next five years, the Google executive declared that Motorola Mobility will act independently within the guidance of the tech titan.
"You shouldn't expect a full integration of the two companies," Mr Pichette was reported as saying by Agence France Press (AFP) on Thursday in stressing that Motorola Mobility will run its own determined course.
"We are not integrating Motorola with Google ... (but) we're making sure it has everything it needs to win in its own space," the company's top finance official said.
While he acknowledged that the growing smartphone market has become a crucial combat field for Google, Mr Pichette pointed out that "it's important (Motorola Mobility) stays on its own battlefield."
Google has formally won the nod from global regulators in May on its expensive means of beefing up its in-house patents arsenal, which was highlighted by the company's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the hardware division of the American firm that is widely regarded in tech world as the inventor of mobile phones.
Analysts said that Google did not spend billions to purchase a company that has seen its better days in the mobile phone market, which is currently ruled over by Apple and Samsung, but to make a wise and forward-looking investment.
As Google expands its territory in the fierce tech world competition, it may step on sensitive toes (read: patent rights) and the thousands of patents afforded by the Motorola deal should come handy in the event legal suits come breathing hard on Google's neck.
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2G auction delay hits India's telecom market - Zd Net Asia.com
Swati Prasad, ZDNet Asia on June 22nd, 2012 (16 hours ago)
The lack of urgency within India's government to resolve the allocation of 2G spectrum issue by fixing the reserve pricing is a blow to its credibility and will hamper the development of the local telecommunications industry, state analysts.
Since February this year, when India's Supreme Court canceled 122 2G licenses due to alleged graft during A Raja's time as telecom minister, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has failed to determine how the auction would proceed.
The Supreme Court had tasked the local telecom regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), to recommend how the auction should be organized and the reserve pricing for spectrum, and had set Jun. 2 as the auction date. However, the deadline was later pushed back to Aug. 31, yet the EGoM has not decided on issues around reserve price, eligibility of buyers and spectrum bands to be sold off.
These developments prompted Kamlesh Bhatia, research director at Gartner, to suggest that the ministers will petition the court for another extension.
Another observer, Romal Shetty, said the indecisiveness of the EGoM is hurting the government's image and standing. The executive director and head of telecom at KPMG said: "The market has taken a hit in terms of credibility in policymaking."
He added that telecom licenses can be seen as a government document and foreign investors are brought into the country to develop the industry based on these licenses, so there is a pressing need to resolve the spectrum licensing issues.
The government needs to provide clarity on policy matters such as reserve pricing before these investors can decide how to proceed and whether they want to participate in the auction, he said. If the auctions do not take place on the stated data, then it does not augur well for the telecom industry in India.
"The telecom industry is a hugely outsourced one. It hires call centers, IT solutions providers, network providers, etc. Everyone has made huge investments, which stands affected," Shetty said.
Some of the new telecom entrants in the India market may even exit the scene totally pending the final auction guidelines, added Praveen Bhadada, director of market expansion at Zinnov Management Consulting.
High base price to impact tariffs
TRAI had earlier recommended a base price range between INR 36.2 million (US$646,848) and INR 144.8 million (US$2.6 million) per megahertz (MHz) of airwaves. The government stands to gain INR 7,000 billion (US$25 billion) by 2014 through the spectrum license auctions, but telcos have opposed the recommendations.
Mohammad Chowdhury, leader of telecom at PwC India, said the company's assessment puts the recommended base price impact on calling cost per minute in the range of INR 0.24 and INR 0.28. In bigger cities, the additional cost can go up by INR 0.90.
"We believe that operators are unlikely to have further capacity to absorb such cost increases. Therefore, we may see significant tariff increases should TRAI's reserve price be accepted by the government, and operators' enthusiasm to participate in the auction will dampen," Chowdhury said.
Long-term detriments to innovation
Chris Perera, Asia-Pacific senior director of spectrum policy and regulatory affairs at GSMA, noted that telecom is an innovation-driven industry, and the trade body fears that a high base price will curtail investments in developing India's mobile infrastructure.
Furthermore, the higher costs might prevent operators from rolling out services to the remote parts of the country, Perera noted.
Gartner's Bhatia agreed, saying: "If the operators' money is sapped due to high reserve prices, you will see very little innovation in the market."
The GSMA estimates that India will become the second-largest mobile broadband market globally--after China--with 367 million connections by 2016.
Chowdhury said growth has slowed in the past two years though, and a return to past growth levels will require the uptake of new services such as data. And his cannot be done with supportive policies.
"All industry players would like normalcy to return to the policy environment for continued industry growth," he said.
Swati Prasad is a freelance IT writer based in India.
URL:http://www.zdnetasia.com/2g-auction-delay-hits-indias-telecom-market-62305207.htm
China telecom firms may be subsidized: U.S. lawmaker - YAHOO!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of China's top telecommunications companies may be selling subsidized gear in the United States, and legislation could be proposed to deal with any related national-security threat, the head of the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee said on Thursday.
The committee is investigating what some U.S. officials suspect are close ties between the Chinese government and each of the firms, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp.
The concern is whether any of their equipment or its software is designed to steal information or "establish the ability to do cyber attacks," panel chairman Mike Rogers said.
Many believe that the gear is subsidized "so it can be multiple times cheaper than any local competitor," Rogers told a conference hosted by Bloomberg Government, a subscription web site.
Closely held Huawei is the world's second-largest maker of telecommunications equipment after Sweden's Ericsson. ZTE, a Shenzhen, China-based crosstown rival, is the fifth-ranking provider. Both deny getting Chinese subsidies and deny any suggestion that they are involved in espionage.
Rogers, a Michigan Republican, said he hoped to complete a report by late summer, in both classified and unclassified form, on any threat from the Chinese firms' gear to U.S. national security.
"This is going to be a huge problem that we're going to have to get a handle on it very quickly," he said. "It may mean legislation" or new rules to guard U.S. networks from possibly booby-trapped hardware or software.
RIGHT DECISION
The committee's coming report would help U.S. companies considering buying equipment "to make the right decision and allow us to go forward with appropriate legislation as required," Rogers said.
Williams Plummer, a Huawei spokesman in Washington, said in reply: "Given that Huawei has publicly and repeatedly and in a detailed fashion debunked this type of misinformation with solid facts, it would be truly unfortunate if such unsubstantiated and unclearly motivated statements persist."
ZTE spokesman David Dai Shu said his company "receives no illegal or hidden subsidies, nor does it dump products in any markets where it operates."
The House panel, in letters sent to the companies this month, pressed them to disclose details about their links to the Chinese government and their pricing strategies.
Rogers told reporters after the conference on Thursday that his panel's investigators had been in touch with officials in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.
Australia earlier this year blocked Huawei from bidding for contracts in its $38 billion high-speed broadband network due to unspecified security concerns.
Face-to-face meetings took place between U.S. House Intelligence Committee members and executives from Huawei and ZTE in Hong Kong last month. The panel began a full-fledged probe in November, and committee staff were briefed at Huawei's Shenzhen office in February and by ZTE in April.
"We must get to the bottom of these issues before the companies have further access to our market," Rogers said in a statement posted on the committee's website this month.
Rogers and the panel's top Democrat, Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, asked the companies on June 12 to respond to its questions within three weeks.
The Office of the National CounterIntelligence Executive, a U.S. intelligence arm, said in a report to Congress in October that China and Russia were in the forefront of keyboard-launched theft of U.S. trade and technology secrets to bolster their fortunes at U.S. expense.
Former U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson dealt Huawei a blow in March 20 testimony to the House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee.
"It appears that Huawei has capabilities that we may not fully detect to divert information," said Bryson, who announced on Thursday he was resigning in connection with two car crashes earlier this month. "It's a challenge to our country."
(Reporting By Jim Wolf; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
Telecom Sector Strongest Performer in the S&P 500 Index - Yahoo Finance
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Another Telecom email foul-up - National Business Review
UPDATE 3pm: Telecom says the issue is resolved.
June 22: Telecom's horror run with email continues.
This morning multiple people have complained online about a fresh wave of problems.
In a statement, the company told NBR ONLINE:
Since this morning, some Xtra customers have been unable to send or receive emails through Outlook.
Telecom apologises for the inconvenience and is fully focussed on resolving the issue and restoring service to its customers as soon as possible.
Customers can still use their webmail accounts (www.xtra.co.nz) which are unaffected by the issue.
A spokeswoman said it was not known how many customers were affected but it was "not all customers".
Telecom admits some email problems continue from Tuesday glitch; addresses compo
UPDATE May 18: Some Telecom Broadband customers are still having email problems caused by a glitch that hit Tuesday.
"The majority of the email backlog caused by a technical issue has cleared now, and service levels appear to be normal, although a few customers may still be experiencing intermittent service with their email," spokesman Richard Irvine told NBR ONLINE this afternoon.
"We're obviously monitoring the situation very closely, and would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused. If customers are continuing to experience difficulties, we urge them to contact the customer service team on 123 so we can resolve their issues as soon as possible."
Asked if any business or residential customers would qualify for compensation, or had approached Telecom on the issue, Mr Irvine replied:
"Yes, some business customers have inquired about compensation and we will assess each on a case-by-case basis."
Angry reader Stewart Knowles told NBR, "The delay in email partly wrecked a business meeting that participants had flown in for from all over the country, [because] meeting papers are emailed out.
"A simple email from Xtra - or a txt to my Telecom mobile - to alert its customers of the problems would have helped enormously.
"It’s basic that any business informs its customers of product issues that may affect them. I searched their site and couldn’t find any “in your face” information, but it was there, deep down within the site if you used advance search."
Have you been affected? Email Chris Keall.
Telecom beavers away on email backlog
UPDATE May 17: A Telecom spokesman updates: of 10AM this morning, 95% of emails in the backlog had been delivered. The remaining emails are being progressively delivered.
"We’re continuing to monitor the situation closely and apologise to customers affected by these delays."
Another email foul up hits Telecom business customers
May 16: Telecom says that since Tuesday morning, some Xtra and Officemail customers have experienced intermittent delays in email delivery, due to "a technical issue."
A spokesman told NBR ONLINE "Telecom has worked closely with email service provider Yahoo! on this issue, and we believe this issue is now resolved. However, there is a substantial queue of email to be delivered in Yahoo!'s infrastructure. Customers will see their emails arrive as the backlog clears and service levels return to normal. Our technicians continue to monitor the situation closely."
The spokesman said the situation was unrelated to last week's "Sorbs" issue, which saw a spam filter inadvertently blacklist addresses.
Telecom Broadband (formerly branded as Xtra) outsourced its webmail services to Yahoo's Australian operation in 2007 - a move dubbed a fiasco at the time amid ongoing technical problems and customer confusion over the transition to the service then known as Yahoo!Xtra "Bubble."
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