Hutchison Essar (India) is reorganizing its shareholding structure in preparation for an IPO. FT may be interested buying Telefonica's TPI phone directory division. It could be also interested by 51% stake in Cameroon Telecom, when privatized. BT would...

Malaysia has granted two more 3G licenses to TIME dotCom, a telecom operator, and MiTV, a wireless pay-television operator, but did not select DiGi.Com, the country's fast-growing mobile phone company. Vodafone is in talks to sell a majority stake in...

Vodacom (S. Africa) had 21.5m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005. DT reported it had 83.1m mobile subscribers by the end of 2005. Japan: 10m IP telephony subscribers at the end of 2005. Orange has 70m mobile subscribers in the nine European markets...

DT reported 4Q05 net profit falling 43% to €989m, but growing 66% to €1bn excluding special items. 4Q05 sales gained 5% to €15.5bn. T-Mobile reported an EBITDA of €2.5bn, up 20%. T-Com (fixed unit) sales fell 1% to €6.2bn with an EBITDA of $2.5bn, up...

Nokia names Alastair Curtis head of design. Motorola named Greg Brown as the president of the new Networks & Enterprise division.

WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatar www.itu.int CeBIT 2006 9-15/03 2006 Hannover Germany http://www.cebit.de/ Spring 2006 VON 14-17/03 2006 San Jose http://pulver.com/von Beyond 3G Technologies. 21-23/03 Madrid Spain www.umts-forum.org...

Legal music downloads: Euphoria Big numbers reveal the health of this market. First is Apple announcement of 1bn iTunes song downloads for the past three years. Second is the number of legal downloads in 2005 at 420m, up 169%, given by the International...

Optical networking market After Ovum and Dell'Oro, it is the turn to Infonetics to value the worldwide optical networking market.2005 optical market grew 19% to $10,7bn, while the metro market (70% of the total) increased 15% and the long-haul market...

SFR announced the results of its mobile TV trial SFR, Nokia and Canal+ unveiled the results of their first mobile TV trial in France. 500 SFR subscribers were using a Nokia 7710 handset equipped with a DVB-H module, so the trial was made with the DVB-H...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Insight, the US managed services market will grow at a CAGR of 22% to $94bn in 2011. According to Dittberner, the overall market for public network switches and routers increased by 20%...