BEIJING — China’s communications trade (telecom and postal) has posted a revenue of 378.43 billion yuan (US$45.71 billion) for the first eight months of the year, an increase of 12.2% from the corresponding period last year, according to the Ministry of Information Industry.
Of the total, telecom revenue reached 341.76 billion yuan ($41.29 billion) in Jan-Aug up 13.1% from one year earlier; postal revenue hit 36.67 billion yuan ($4.43 billion), an on-year rise of 4.7%.
The communications trade fulfilled 122.56 billion yuan of investment in fixed assets in January-August, up 13.3% year on year. They included 121.5 billion yuan in telecom sector, up 13.6%; and 1.06 billion yuan in postal sector, down 16.9%.
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NEXT SPRING: Charge to benefit
long-distance companies.
By RICHARD RICHTMYER
Anchorage Daily News
Alaska utility regulators, in a 3–2 decision, have approved a plan to add $3 a month to the cost of basic phone service by 2007.
The added charges, which will appear on phone bills starting next spring, will shift directly to consumers part of the fees long-distance companies currently pay local phone companies to use their lines.
All local phone service subscribers will pay, regardless of their long-distance usage, and long-distance companies aren’t required to lower their rates to pass on their savings.
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Somebody, call emergency services. Corporate America is a danger to itself and others.
It’s a danger to itself because consumers don’t like to do business with those who do business the way some of them do.
Take telephone service providers, for example. Once upon a time, consumers went to the «Phone Company,» paid whatever had to be paid, selected a couple of phones, went back home, and in next to no time, they had phone service.
When we moved here in the ’70s, all we really needed to know was the location of the Phone Company. We had one of the Bells for local service and AT&T for long distance. That was 20-something years ago. A lot has changed since then. The Bells divided, split and morphed into what now operates much like a sideshow shell game.
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Transaction Expected to Add More than $25MM in Annualized Revenue and
- 007 Per Share to Calendar 2005 Earnings
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 28
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MobilePro Corp.
(OTC Bulletin Board: MOBL) announced today that the shareholders of CloseCall
America, Inc., a leading regional competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC)
offering local, long distance, 1.800CloseCall prepaid calling cards, wireless,
voice over IP,
dial-up and DSL Internet, have approved the acquisition of
CloseCall by MobilePro. The parties now await FCC clearance, expected by
October 16, as the final step in closing the transaction.
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Kevin Kuykendall, MobilePro Group president of telco operations, said, «We
are pleased with this important penultimate step in the process of closing the
CloseCall acquisition. CloseCall brings us management talent, a strong
operating platform and excellent financial performance. We already have
started taking steps to leverage CloseCall’s platform with our Affinity and
US1 subsidiaries and look forward to fully integrating those operations with
CloseCall as soon as we receive final regulatory clearance.»
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