China Unicom reports a 24% profit slide in 1H07 to $280m, on revenues climbing 5% to $6.5bn. Hutchison Telecom International posted 1H07 net profit of $9.1bn (including $8.8bn from the sale of its stake in India-based operator Essar to Vodafone), and...

Kim Sang-don has been appointed as the new CFO of LG Telecom. ALU announces departure of Mike Quigley (president of science, technology and strategy) and Frank D'Amelio (chief administrative officer). Etienne Fouques will overtake Mikes' s responsibilities,...

The Ultra Low Cost Handset market (or ULCH; another acronym to memorize) is the cheapest segment in mobile handsets. Typically made with sub-$50 phones, this new segment was launched when GSMA invited vendors to manufacture low cost products for emerging...

The Global Mobile Suppliers Association, the GSA, has released its latest market update. There were 2.54bn (+28.5% yoy) GSM mobile users at the end of June (over 85% of the global market), 360m CDMA users (+ 18% and 12% of the global market), and 75m...

Optical networking sales rose 20% to $3.5bn in 2Q07, their highest level in 6 years. All market segments report strength and growth, specially for metro and backbone WDM segments. Aggregation and multiservice products were doing well. Main market drivers...

In 2Q07, US mobile phone sales were estimated to be 33m units, down 17% sequentially, but 2Q is traditionally a slow sales quarter for mobile phone retailers. Sales were worth $2.4bn, up 14%; 62% of the sales were made via carrier stores, and 28% cost...

Another record quarter for DSL shipments. For the first time, 25m DSL lines (+ 16%) were shipped in one quarter, according to OVUM-RHK. The main driver was Asia and specially the Chinese market. Asia accounts for more than 40% of the global market with...

It is an evidence that Bluetooth is currently gaining ground, but IMS forecasts it will not peak in the short or medium term. The range of potential applications for Bluetooth has not yet been realized, and the market trend is to avoid short-range wiring...

A few set of market information released this week: According to XiTi Monitor, Firefox reached a 28% market share in Europe, while Internet Explorer is down below 67% market share, followed by Opera with 3.5% share. According to Juniper Research, mobile...

Broadcom says it will receive about $40m from Qualcomm for patent infringement, after court doubles charges. IBM and SUN will cooperate to make better server technologies.