France Telecom annual profits dip
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France Telecom posts a drop in full-year profits, blaming the cost of launching new internet services and price pressures.
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The BellSouth Corporation, the third-largest Bell operating company, said yesterday that profit dropped 14.6 percent in the third quarter as expenses rose because of this summer&#39;s hurricanes and costs at its Cingular Wireless division.
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French oil giant Total reports a record 12.58bn euros net profit in 2006 but fourth quarter earnings slip as oil prices fall.
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France will sell up to 12.1 percent of France Telecom in Europe&#39;s largest share placement in four years, bringing as much as 5.75 billion euros ($6.
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NTT DoCoMo reported today that its profit fell 6 percent for the most recent six-month period from a year earlier as price-cutting rivals lured customers away from the company, Japan&#39;s top provider of mobile phone service.
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Swedish telecoms equipment maker  Ericsson reported a lower-than-expected fourth-quarter gross  profit margin on Thursday as the rollout of more mobile  networks added to costs, sending its shares down despite strong  orders.
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Ericsson, the world&#39;s largest maker of mobile phone networks, posted a quarterly profit on Friday, but reported disappointing new orders and offered a subdued outlook for 2005.
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NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T), Japan's top  mobile phone operator, said on Wednesday its operating profit  fell 2.4 percent in the nine months to December after it lost  subscribers to rivals but maintained its annual forecast.
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Losses at planemaker Airbus  slashed operating profit at Franco-German parent EADS   by 86 percent to 399 million euros ($525 million) in 2006, but  the fall was cushioned by profits in defense, the group said.
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European stock markets drifted lower in early trading as profit-taking set in after recent gains, despite a modest rise on Wall Street and well-received results from cellphone giant Vodafone.
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The company has signalled profits of between Â£285 million and Â£295 million, down on Â£311 million a year ago, following a poor run of sales.
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France Telecom has been sued for $5.74bn (4.26bn euros; 2.99bn) in damages by its former German partner.
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The phone provider reported a 14.6 percent drop in third-quarter profit on flat revenue and a continued loss of local access lines.
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Ericsson, the world's biggest  producer of mobile phone networks, said market growth would  slow next year, sending its share price down sharply despite  reporting a big jump in third-quarter profits on Friday.
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China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (0728.HK),  the bigger of the country's two fixed-line phone firms, posted  a 4 percent dip in first-half earnings, lagging expectations,  as users switched increasingly to mobile services.
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French economic growth is expected to dip slightly to 2.1 percent this year from 2.2 percent in 2006, still well below the eurozone average, the national statistics institute INSEE said Friday.
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Phone company Qwest Communications International Inc  on Tuesday cut its earnings outlook for the year, sending its shares down 4 percent, though its quarterly profit rose with the help of a tax benefit and cost cuts.