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Best Group Vacation Deals for 2013 Coming Soon! - As the 2011-12 ski season comes to an end be sure to check back soon for our great selection of winter ski and summer vacation trips for the 2012-13 season. Highlights from last season (2011-12) were Switzerland from $885, Bulgaria from $899, Poland from $919 and Austria from $982 per person (double occupancy). We also [ ]...

Resort Survey: Favorite French Resorts - France has long attracted skiers to its slopes and even hosted the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix in 1924. The skiers, and now the ?boarders, are still coming. Whether they?re looking for glamour and upscale accommodations or a more down to earth setting, the resorts of France don?t disappoint. And there?s more than skiing [ ]...

Ski Vacation Deals in France - Chamonix, France Ski Trip from $1,549 per person At the foot of Mont Blanc, Chamonix offers one of the best high-mountain cocktails of the world. The mighty mount is a huge attraction in and of itself. Its spectacular scenery, some of the most extreme sites ever viewed, and its challenging ski areas make a perfect [ ]...

Ski Vacations in Austria - Innsbruck, Austria Ski Trip from $1,198 per person Most visitors here ski at an intermediate level, but thrill-seekers still have some options. The amazingly daring runs of Hafelekar, Axamer Lizum, and Stubai Glacier are good for advanced skiers. The world-famous Air and Style Competition at the Olympic Ski Jump stadium attracts over 25,000 visitors in [ ]...

European Resorts for Late-season Snow - Don’t worry if you haven’t made plans for your European ski trip yet. As the season winds down in some areas it continues to go strong at high-altitude resorts, especially those with glaciers. There’s still time to book a late-season ski vacation in the Alps. Take a look at some of the European resorts with [ ]...

Europe?s Best Kept Secrets: Obergurgl, Austria - Obergurgl is a perfect example of why it?s important to shop around for ski resorts. While some dedicated fans of this Austrian resort love nothing better than its snowsure beginner and intermediate runs, expert skiers or those with a taste for a high level of nightlife will most likely find themselves bored here. Obergurgl?s greatest [ ]...

Ski Vacation in Germany - Garmisch-Partenkirchen is built around the highest mountain in Germany, the Zugspitze, with an altitude of 2,962 meters (8,832 feet). The top of the mountain is actually a glacier with amazing ski terrain for advanced skiers ranging from bowls to natural, ungroomed drops. There?s ample opportunity for leisurely, intermediate skiing on the 75 miles of trails [ ]...

Resorts Openings and Fresh Snow - Austrian Snow and Resorts In the last few days, the snowy white powder has been falling in Austria. The heaviest snowfall was in the western Austrian resorts but snow fell across the country, so fresh powder skiing be easily located. On Thursday, Mayrhofen (3/25cm) opened for the first time this season, thanks to the fresh [ ]...

European Ski Resorts, What?s New for 2012 - In Austria, Saalbach is ready to welcome the new season with new charilists and gondola. Further upgrades and eplacement lifts are also ready to welcome visitors in Hintertux, Schladming and Kitzbühel. In France, Val d´Isère, already a top-tier resort, now boasts almost 160 ski slopes. Valpark, one of the best snow parks in Europe has [ ]...

European Ski Resort Season Open Dates 2011-2012 - The ski season is closing fast and we’re all looking for a great season of endless white powder. Most of the major resorts look to be opening in the first week of December this years with a few exceptions. Chamonix (France) has already received substantial snowfall. The official resort open is the first week of [ ]...

Best European Ski Resorts for Early Snow - If you’re planning a ski trip for this coming season, there is a great article in the Guardian UK which lists the top 10 ski resorts for early snow. Of the top 10 ski resorts, the first 8 listed are European: Val Thorens, France Chamonix, France Ischgl, Austria Tignes, France Hintertux, Austria Breuil-Cervina, Italy Obergurgl, [ ]...

2011-2012 Season Ski Trips Are Here! - Welcome the 2011-2012 ski season with our best ski trip prices to Europe. Prices for the new season start from $1,198 per person (Innsbruck) and include: roundtrip air, 6 or 7 nights hotel accomodation (double occupancy), buffet breakfast, transfer as specified, airline fuel surcharges and local taxes and service charges in Europe. Great European ski [ ]...

Docomo sees stronger growth on data services demand - (Telecompaper) Japan's NTT Docomo forecast stronger growth in the current fiscal year, led by demand for its LTE data services and smartphones. The mobile operator reported revenues for the fiscal year to March 2012 up 0.4 percent to JPY 4.24 trillion, with a 9.9 percent drop in voice revenues offset by 8.8 percent growth in data and 4.6 percent higher equipment sales. Operating profit increased 3.5 percent to JPY 874.5 billion, supported by cost reductions, while net profit was down 6.3 percent to JPY 461 billion, in line with the company's earlier downgrade due to changes to tax legislation. In the current fiscal year, the company expects revenues to grow a faster 5 percent to JPY 4.45 trillion, and operating profit should be up 2.9 percent to JPY 900 billion. Docomo targets a 50 percent increase in smartphones sold this year to around 13 million, of which 60 percent should be LTE devices. Data revenues should accelerate to growth of 12.3 percent, after an annual increase of 9 percen...

China Telecom profits fall on handset costs - (Telecompaper) China Telecom reported first-quarter revenues up 15.7 percent from a year earlier to CNY 67.93 billion. Excluding mobile device sales, revenues were up 12.0 percent to CNY 62.3 billion. The operator's EBITDA, before fees for CDMA network leasing, came in at CNY 24.03 billion, up just 0.9 percent, due to higher costs for the strong increase in device sales, including the iPhone 4S. Device revenues were up 80.7 percent from a year earlier, and the operator also reported higher CDMA network costs due to the growth in susbcribers. Net profit fell 6.5 percent to CNY 4.27 billion. The operator added a net 9.36 million new mobile customers in the three months, for a total 135.83 million at end-march. 3G customers rose by 7.26 million to 43.55 million. Voice traffic of 113.54 billion minutes was little changed versus Q4 but up from 106.05 billion a year earlier. ARPU was also stable versus Q4 at CNY 51.7. Fixed lines fell by 0.88 million to 168.71 million, while the fixed broadb...

Samsung passes Nokia to become world's largest handset maker - (Telecompaper) Samsung passed Nokia to become the world's biggest mobile phone maker in the first quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. The market researcher estimates that Samsung sold 93.5 million handsets, versus a reported 82.7 million at Nokia. Samsung took a record 25.4 percent of the market, up from 19.3 percent a year ago. Nokia fell to 22.5 percent from 30.4 percent in the year-earlier period, ending its 14-year reign as the world's biggest handset vendor. Samsung was also the top smartphone seller in the quarter, passing Apple to reach a 31 percent market share. Samsung's smartphone sales rose an estimated 253 percent annually to 44.5 million, while Apple's shipments of 31.5 million accounted for a market share of 24 percent. On the total phone market, Apple had a share of 9.5 percent, up from 5.2 a year ago. Strategy Analytics estimates the total mobile phone market expanded 3 percent year-on-year to 368 million units in Q1. This was led by a 41 percent increase in globa...

Samsung Q1 profits jump on strong smartphone sales - (Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics reported first-quarter results sharply higher, led by strong demand for its smartphones. The company's sales rose 22 percent year-on-year to KRW 45.27 trillion, and operating profit nearly doubled to KRW 5.85 trillion. Net profit improved 81 percent to KRW 5.05 trillion. The communications division, which includes network equipment and mobile devices, grew sales 70 percent from a year earlier to KRW 23.22 trillion, and its operating profit rose 193 percent to KRW 4.27 trillion. Handset revenues alone were up 83 percent year-on-year to KRW 18.90 trillion. Samsung said mobile demand slowed somewhat due to seasonal effects, but its profits and average selling price rose from the previous quarter thanks to a growing proportion of smartphones in the mix. The company did not provide details on how many phones it sold. Samsung expects small sequential growth in the market in Q2, led by demand for LTE and high-end phones in developed markets such as the US, K...

America Movil grows Q1 net profit 37.5% - (Telecompaper) America Movil reported first-quarter revenues up 12.4 percent from a year earlier to MXN 192 billion. Fixed-line revenues grew 7.1 percent and mobile revenues were up 15.8 percent; the latter accounted for 62.5 percent of total revenues. Growth was led by mobile data services (+31%), followed by pay-TV revenues (+25%) and fixed-line data (+9%). EBITDA improved 6.3 percent to MXN 67.5 billion, giving a margin of 35.1 percent. The appreciation of various currencies against the US dollar led to a foreign exchange gain, helping net profit grow 37.5 percent to MXN 32.6 billion. The operator reduced net debt to MXN 318 billion at the end of March, from MXN 332 billion three months earlier, putting it at 1.2 times EBITDA. Capex reached MXN 24.2 billion for the period. America Movil finished March with 306 million access lines, up 7.7 percent from a year earlier. In the first quarter alone, the mobile base grew by 4.2 million to 246 million, and fixed-line RGUs were up by 1.9 mi...

Bangladesh to open Wi-Fi services to mobile operators - (Telecompaper) The Bangladesh telecoms regulator has published a draft guideline allowing mobile operators to provide Wi-Fi services in a bid to realise the government's pledge of building a digital Bangladesh. The guideline, posted on the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) website, said Wi-Fi operators will not be charged for spectrum utilisation but need only pay an application form fee of BDT 500 and a processing fee of BDT 5,000. Besides the mobile phone operators, any person, private, corporate, public or national entity can use the Wi-Fi band for short range or high speed digital devices. In the guideline, the BTRC declares the 83.5 MHz and 150 MHz bands as Wi-Fi bands. A total of 233.5 MHz bandwidth has been stored for Wi-Fi services, according to the guideline. However access to the spectrum will be on a shared basis. No exclusive spectrum will allocated to any specific operator....

Samsung unveils quad-core processor for next Galaxy phone - (Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics has introduced a quad-core application processor built on the High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. With performance capacities exceeding 1.4 GHz based on the ARM Cortex A9 quad-core, the Exynos 4 Quad allows system-level architects to integrate maximised power efficiencies into smartphones and tablets, Samsung said. This enables double the processing power at a 20 percent lower power bill over the previous 45nm process-based Exynos 4 Dual. The Exynos 4 Quad is particularly well-suited for heavy-load applications such as 3D games, video editing, and calculation-intensive simulation, Samsung said. To improve power efficiency, the company adopted hot-plug functionality to support on-off switching for each core and the per-core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). Having identical form factor measurements, the Exynos 4 Quad is pin-to-pin compliant with the 32nm process based Exynos 4 Dual. The processor incorporates a full HD 30...

Vivendi denies considering breakup - (Telecompaper) Vivendi is in the early stages of an internal review that could result in Universal Music Group and Activision Blizzard being separated from the group's telecommunications and content distribution subsidiaries, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg. Another possibility reportedly being considered is to spin off French pay-TV operator Canal Plus, which is 20 percent owned by Lagardere. Various scenarios will be discussed by Vivendi's board and top executives at a three-day summit in June, according to Bloomberg's sources. Vivendi chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou told shareholders last week that the company's stock was nearly 40 percent undervalued because of its structure as a holding vehicle of multiple units. The group responded to Bloomberg's report with a denial of what it called anonymous and ungrounded allegations, adding that any future strategic decisions will have shareholder value creation at their core....

Alcatel-Lucent posts Q1 operating loss as sales fall 12% - (Telecompaper) Alcatel-Lucent reported first-quarter revenues down 12.3 percent from a year earlier and 22.7 percent lower versus the fourth quarter, at EUR 3.206 billion. The network equipment maker suffered from a slowdown in spending among European carriers and declining CDMA sales in North America as operators move to LTE. The company posted an adjusted operating loss of EUR 221 million or 6.9 percent of sales, and the gross margin fell to 30.3 percent from 35.3 a year ago. Alcatel said the gross margin should improve in the rest of the year, on a better product mix. The net result for Q1 was a profit of EUR 398 million or 14 cents a share, thanks to a gain of EUR 659 million on the sale of its Genesys unit. After positive operating cash flow of EUR 168 million, the company finished March with net cash of EUR 784 million. CEO Ben Verwaayen said the company had a slow start to the year, but was showing good progress on lowering costs and generating cash. Alcatel-Lucent maintained it...

LG profits improve in Q1, despite further sales drop - (Telecompaper) LG Electronics reported a continued fall in revenues in the first quarter, but improved its profits thanks to cost reductions and a better product mix. The Korean company posted sales of KRW 12.23 trillion, down 7.1 percent from a year earlier, while operating profit jumped to KRW 448 billion from KRW 131 billion. The net result improved to a profit of KRW 243 billion from a loss of KRW 16 billion in the first quarter of 2011. The Mobile Communications division posted a turnaround to operating profit of KRW 39 billion, versus a loss of KRW 101 billion a year ago, while revenues fell 14 percent year-on-year to KRW 2.497 trillion. The company shipped 13.7 million phones in the quarter, down 22 percent from Q4. LG said profits improved thanks to a bigger share for smartphones and especially LTE devices, and a better cost structure. While the company does not expect market growth to accelerate, smartphone demand is expected to continue to increase, led by the further roll-ou...