Monday, May 7, 2007

PFE World Wide News 5-7-07

The following is an executive summary of news of Interest to the Paradigm Family of Enterprises. Click on the topic or the country Headers in the margins to the left for full reports.

Builders & Environment
  • At your request I have put together A set of free lead generation tools in the margins of the leads page. Thanks John Curtis for your blue Book Link. I will be happy to add to your favorite resources there, naming the link after you. Email me with the link.
  • I have added some video of Stormwater damage at construction sites.
  • New home buyers are jumping to Vacation homes instead of first homes
  • Countrywide, a frequent reporter of dire mortgage news, projects good market improvements by the middle of 2008, and a "very healthy" mortgage environment by 2009.
  • Commercial Construction continues to be in growth mode in most regions
  • The US EPA RSS feed page also has new stormwater videos.
Telecom & Technology
  • A Kenya Airways jet went down this past weekend in Cameroon, West Africa.Reports from all over indicated there were African, Chinese, British, French, Indian and European passengers on board. This includes Four officials of the Cameroonian mobile phone company, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) including the managing director, South African Utton Campbell. There are no signs of survivors yet. (More)
  • I have been watching an African telecoms data web site, and the data appears to be updated regularly. I think the the data is now reliable enough to put links in the margin of our Telecoms Page to free technical reports on every African Country.
  • SES, a large Satellite service provider to Telecoms, has undergone major restructuring. They published a report this week of their recent acquisitions, internal restructuring, satellite re designations, and traffic capacity for each bird.
  • EU Funding for all the Africa Fiber Optic Projects appear to have been consolidated into one new organizations called The Infrastructure Trust Fund for Africa. It includes all four fiber projects.
  • Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co. (MTC), one of the largest African Telecoms Providers, reported its slowest profit growth in almost two years in the first quarter.
  • Two Telecoms In South Africa are providing a case study on what happens when one new telecom takes on a government monopoly. A summary is here.
  • A record was set in 2006 when over 14B$ was raised by investors for African and Middle Eastern Telecom Projects. Already in 2007, over 30B$ more has been raised. A conference on telecoms finance is being held in Dubai this month to sort things out.
Business as Mission
Fiji:

Kenya

Malawi

Mexico

Uganda


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