Webwire: PT Telkom profit falls 6.7%; Vietnam gives sat deals to Japan

Indonesia's PT Telkom has reported a 6.7% slump in its net profit for the first nine months of the year, as the costs of an early retirement plan outweighed revenue gains.

Bloomberg 

 

The Vietnamese government has awarded NEC and other Japanese companies the contracts to construct two monitoring satellites, to be used for purposes including natural disaster management.

Reuters 

Amazon aims to introduce the Kindle and the Kindle Fire tablet to the market, but is currently in talks with regulators over copyright issues surrounding the content.

Reuters 

 

A bug in Apple's location services system for iOS 5 may be the cause of reported rapid battery drain in some iPhone 4S handsets.

Indian state-owned operator BSNL may soon get compensation for maintaining unprofitable services, or be allowed to exit the lossmaking operations, according to a telecom ministry source.

Economic Times 

Thai state-owned operator TOT is maintaining its 3G rollout targets, including having 4,772 base stations by next may, despite acknowledging the risk of delays due to the recent severe flooding.

Motorola Mobility will lay off 800 employees, at a cost of around $31 million, as it prepares for its $12.5 billion acquisition by Google.

BizJournals 

MTN Group had 158.6 million customers across 22 African and Middle Eastern countries by the end of September.