France Telecom is considering switching online portal advertising services from Yahoo to Google. DT plans to increase ULL monthly fees it charges alternative operators by 13% to about €12. Belgacom and its mobile unit Proximus have signed a mobile roaming...

Rostelecom (Russia) may sell its 11% stake in Golden Telecom.

China Mobile buys abroad: it has signed a deal to buy almost 89% stake in Paktel (Pakistan) for $284m from Millicom (Luxembourg). It also would invest in Datang, a TD-SCDMA vendor in China. Vodafone Egypt will sign a 3G licence deal, worth $580m, with...

Portugal has reached a mobile subscriber base of almost 12m as of Sept. 06. VNPT (Vietnam) added 1.2m fixed line subscribers, 151k internet users and 3.3m mobile subscribers in 2006. VNPT had in total 17.9m telephone subscribers. Pakistan' s mobile subscriber...

VNPT (Vietnam) reports 2006 revenues of $2.4bn, up 15%, and targets an increase of 10% in revenues and an additional 6.5m telephone subscribers in 2007. China Mobile reports 2006 EBT of $12.4bn, up 23%, on revenues of $36.6bn, up 21%. It had 318m mobile...

Avaya has appointed Stuart Wells as senior VP and President of Global Communications segment.

Motorola reports disappointing 4Q06 results. 4Q06 revenues were $11.8bn, up 17%, while net earnings were at $624m, down 48%. While mobile phone shipment volume grew 47%, average selling price and operating margins suffered due to demand for low end products...

Gartner and IDC have released their respective study of the world PC market. Figures do not differ strongly between the two researches. The market was worth ca 230m units sold in 2006, up about 9%. HP remains the market leader with about 17% market share,...

Unexpectedly, Skype has changed its business case to follow rivals and fit with customer demand. First Skype has raised its SkypeOut charges for all calls to land-lines and mobiles by €0.039 (new connection fee). For an average Skype user, the increase...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, 50,000 WiFi mesh Access points unit shipments were made in 2006. It would grow to 100,000 units in 2010. iSupply reports that Apple' s iPhone could generate 50% gross margin, based...