Tellabs posted 1Q06 net income of $52m, up from almost zero, on revenues of $515m, up 18%. The Transport segment reported sales of $214m (+24%), the Broadband unit had sales of $260m (+14%) Siemens reports net income of €887m, up 14%, on sales growing...

The European Commission approves T-Mobile Austria's acquisition of tele.ring, but demands that tele.ring divest its two 3G/UMTS frequency blocks to ease competition. Telenor discusses the sale of of Kyivstar (Ukraine) to VimpelCom (Russia). BlackStone...

Vonage is partnering with UK WiFi operator The Cloud to offer Internet-based mobile-phone calls. MTNL (India) is close to launch IPTV services in team with content aggregator Time Broadband Services. China Satcom and Shin Satellite have signed an agreement...

Argotex (Georgia) has been granted a mobile license. Disney Mobil is expanding in the UK, as an MVNO hosted by O2 Telecom Italia will launch DVB-H based mobile TV services in June. Smart (Philippines) will commercially offer 3G services in May 2006, at...

US Cellular had 5.3m subscribers at the end of March (+10%). Sprint Nextel announced a mobile subscriber base of about 51m (including affiliates) at the end of March, adding 1.3m users in the quarter. Centertel (Poland) reported 10.4m mobile subscribers...

Sprint Nextel posted 1Q06 net income of $419m, down 11%, but revenues rose 9% proforma to $11.5bn. Proforma mobile revenues reached $8.5bn (+13%). Mobile ARPU was $62, of which $7 for data revenues. Long distance services accounted for $1.7bn, down 3%,...

Alcatel named Christian Reinaudo EVP Integration Project Team Leader (for managing the merger with Lucent); Frédéric Rose is appointed EVP, president of Alcatel Asia Pacific region; Stéphane Terranova is appointed president, Integration and Services activities....

Africa Telecommunication and ICT Conference. 13-17/05 2006 Nairobi, Kenia www.nepadcouncil.org ICIN2006 Advance Programme 29/05-1/06 Bordeaux (France) www.icin-conference.com and icin2006@adera.fr CommunicAsia 2006 & BroadcastAsia 20-23/06 Singapore www.communicasia.com...

Lucent posts 1Q06 net income of $181m (down32% ) on revenues of $2.1bn (down 8%). While US revenues was almost flat (+3%) but accounted for 70% of total revenues, non-US revenues were down 28%. Most critical regional revenues were in APAC where sales...

ATT results ATT reports strong 1Q06 results. Net income was $1,45bn on sales of $15.8bn. It was the first reported period with combined results from SBC and ATT. The traditional wireline business reported sales of $14.7bn, down 5.5%, and the company lost...