France Telecom said its 1Q07 revenues were €12.8bn, up 1.8%. Results are slightly better than expected by analysts. Gross margin grew 2 points to 36%+ (or €4.7bn), fixed-line revenues are stable ...
Ericsson delivered pretty good results for the 1Q07 quarter. Revenues were up 8% to €4.8bn, operating expenses grew only 3%, and net income jumped 27% to €663m. Revenue split is as follows: ...
The mobile industry has finally united to develop a plan to increase the functionality and features of mobile phones. Consumers would be able to use their mobile phones as a wallet, a ticket or a ...
According to agency Standard & Poor's, European telcos continue to suffer in domestic fixed-line operations. Driven by mobile substitution and fierce competition, the key incumbent fixed-line ...
A few set of market information released this week: In-Stat found that 120m broadband CPE devices were shipped in 2006, up 20%, led by shipments in the cable modem segment. Another In-Stat study ...
NEC has licensed its U.S. digital microwave radio patents to Microwave Networks. Siemens has selected Colubris to equip Paris ' CDG airport new automated metro line with WiFi. ALU and LHS unveil ...
ALU has completed the installation of the Atlas Offshore submarine cable system linking Morocco to France. ALU and NEC won the Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine system contract (20,000km long ...
Asiainfo will deploy its operation support systems (BOSS) for some China Mobile' s TD-SCDMA trials. ALU will supply a mobile TV solution to SIC TV (Portugal). It has reveived an UMTS/HSDPA ...
Avaya said its FY2Q07 revenues were rising almost 5% to $1.3bn, its operating income jumped 53% to $81m and net profit of $57m, up 50%. Fujitsu announced FY2006 results. Net sales reached $43bn, ...
Telefonica and Portugal Telecom are in talks on the future of Vivo (Brazil). Telefonica denied that the deal is done, but analysts think a deal could be announced this week. China Telecom has ...
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is mulling launching IPTV services and broadcast quality VOD in Colombo by December 2007. Telstra has announced a fully-integrated national wireline and wireless national ...
MTS (Russia) has won a 3G 10-year WCDMA licence in Uzbekistan. KPN is in talks to sell the Telfort network. Several buyers are bidding. America Movil is planning to open 3G services in 30-40 towns ...
There were 50m mobile subscribers in West Africa at the end of 2006. America Movil added 6.5m new mobile subscribers in 1Q07 to a total of 131m (+30%) in LATAM at the end of March, of which almost ...
France Telecom said its 1Q07 revenues were €12.8bn, up 1.8%, and its net profit was €4.7bn, slightly up. America Movil (Mexico) reports 1Q07 net profit of $1.4bn, up 52%, on revenues of $6.2bn, up ...
FT has announced the departure of Orange boss Sanjiv Ahuja. Siemens CEO, Klaus Kleinfeld, resigns, and will leave in September when his contract ends. ATT CEO, Edward E. Whitacre, will retire as ...
AT&T reported strong 1Q07 results. Revenues rose to $29bn, from $15.7bn a year ago (non proforma), but includes BellSouth and its 40% stake in Cingular from now. Net income amounted to $2.8bn, up ...
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, VOIP is driving cable telephony services and subscriber growth. Worldwide there were 22m VOIP subscribers in 2006, ...
Ericsson announced it has completed the acquisition of all remaining shares of Tandberg TV. In a separate statement it announced it will change its financial reporting to reflect a new business ...
Nortel will deploy WiMAX networks in western Illinois and eastern Iowa (both in USA) for MDPC. It also got the order for WiMAX deployments from Wind Telecom in the Dominican Republic. Huawei will ...
Tellabs posted 1Q07 net profits down 51% to $25m, on revenues down 12% to $452m. Managed access revenues fell 7%, while data product revenues grew 33% to $29m. Tellabs lowered its 2Q07 revenues ...
Qatar Telecom mulls entering the Pakistani Market by acquiring stake in Burraq Telecom. BT announced a new structure with the creation of two new business units focused on service creation and ...
Time Warner Cable is partnering with FON, the hotspot company, to offer its subscribers access to any of FON’s 60,000 Wi-Fi US hotspots. Etisalat (UAE) would launch its IPVPN (Internet Protocol ...
Dialog (Sri Lanka) had 3.1m mobile subscribers at the end of 2006. India passes 206m phone subscribers, up 66.5m in 2006-2007, of which 166m mobile and 41m wireline. According to the India's ...
AT&T reported strong 1Q07 results. 1 8 20 Revenues rose to $29bn, from $15.7bn a year ago (non proforma), but includes BellSouth and its 40% stake in Cingular from now. Net income amounted to ...
Nokia reported 1Q07 results in line with expectations, except earnings. Sales were at €9.9bn, up 4%, and earnings of €979m, down 7%. The operating margin declined 1.5 point to 13%. Mobile phones ...
Motorola reported bleak results for 1Q07. First quaterly loss since 2004, due to poor handset sales and average selling price decline, to $181m, compared with a profit of $686m in 1Q06. Handset ...
First researches on 1Q07 handset sales start to be published. Strategics Analytics found that 252m units were shipped in 1Q07, up 12% only. This was the first quarter in two years that growth has ...
The saga continues... with AT&T announcing it abandons the race, but its partner America Movil seems wanting to continue, in spite of Brazil' s telecom regulator Anatel warning AMX could face ...
Nobody knows what the market would be in a mid-term, in spite of market researches more or less optimistic, but players are very active on the subject. Everybody is preparing itself. Nine of the ...
In its annual report on i2010, the EU policy strategy on ICT, the EU Commission analyses the economic impact of deploying ICT (information and communication technology). The focus is to combine ...
A few set of market information released this week: According to Crown Castle/ Modeo, their mobile TV trial has revealed relative strong demand for mobile TV: an average 15mn of use a day, with ...
Calix Networks could file for an IPO in the next few weeks. Motorola is close on a deal to buy Terayon (to be announced on Monday) for about $165m. Avici Systems is exiting the core router ...
Nokia launches HSDPA handset 6120. Shortfall: RIM' s Blackberry e-mail service experienced a serious system failure in N.A. for several hours. The nature of the breakdown is a poor testing of a ...
Ericsson will build an IMS-based multimedia network in Beijing, for China Netcom. Amdocs got a sevne-year managed services deal with AT&T. Cisco would be ( to be announced soon) the new core ...
China' s GDP grew over 11% in 1Q07. Berlusconi's media group Mediaset in Italy may enter Telecom Italia bid, without taking control. Telekom (Malaysia) will pay $113m for an additional 7.4% in ...
Vivendi (France) would like to take full control of its subsidiary SFR (France), in which Vodafone has 44%. Meditel (Morocco) and Vivatel (Bulgaria) are launching HSDPA services. NetCom has also ...
Colombia' s mobile phone lines rise to 28m. Clearwire had 258,000 customers at the end of March 07. SFR (France) has 140,000 mobile TV users. Cosmote Romania has added 1m new mobile subscribers in ...