Chile : almost 14m mobile GSM subscribers at the end of March, accounting for 80% of the total market. Movistar is the market leader with 42%, followed by Entel with 38% and Claro with 20%. Latin America had 327m mobile users, according to 3G Americas....

VSNL (India) reports record $2.2bn consolidated revenues, up 85%, and EBITDA of $320m, up 49%. PT Telkom (Indonesia) posts net profit of $1.25bn, up 38%, on an income of $5.8bn, up 23%.

Martin Read , LogicaCMG' s CEO, will quit the company, after recent profit warning on financial results. VeriSign CEO, Stratton Sclavos , has resigned for undisclosed reasons

GSA announced that there are now 287 mobile network operators (+40%) in 142 countries deploying EDGE, of which 111 in Europe, 84 in Americas, 50 in MEA and 42 in APAC. 223 networks (+50%) are in commercial use in 113 countries, of which 97 in Europe,...

According to the NPD Group, the US mobile phone market reports steady growth of 12% in 1Q07 with $3bn in value and about 39m units sold. Motorola was performing very well in the quarter, reporting a 35% market share (+6 points), while struggling elsewhere...

According to Analysys, the number of system sales announcements for telecoms IT (BSS/OSS) solutions dropped 20% in 2006, but it was mainly due to consolidation both on the supply side and on the demand side. In fact, the CRM and order management system...

We are going closer of the time when China is beginning large-scale number distribution. For the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance, it will be in 4Q07. At that time, it will make available handsets to customers, meaning that building large-scale commercial TD-SCDMA...

Everybody is used to take Japan or S. Korea as an example in mobile penetration and business. News from S. Korea, however, are not good for 3G: more and more 3G customers are abandoning 3G for 2G. 2200 3G users returned their 3G phones to use back 2G...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Ovum-RHK, mobile revenues in APAC, but excluding China, would grow at a CAGR of 2-3% to reach $167bn by 2012. Mobile capex would follow the same curve. But wireline revenues would lost $5bn...

Cisco and EMC-RSA will jointly develop a new data ciphering offering targeted to SAN storage networks. Fujitsu is combining its telecom equipment production with operations sales in order to boost competitiveness. Huawei commits to bridging the digital...