A few set of market information released this week: According to F&S, the eight Asian emerging countries (excluding China) would add some 570m new mobile subscribers by 2012, ringing their customer base to over 1bn. IPTV penetration in the CEI countries...

They are growing in number of subscribers, with a current market share of 67% and 472m GSM/3G users (+31%). More than 115m GSM/3G subscribers were added in twelve months, of which 8.5m were 3G. Most of operators are evolving their networks to HSPA, be...

Nokia has launched in the US market three new smartphones: N96, N85 and N79. They will not be subsidized by carriers. Motorola has released a new Push to Talk (PTT) solution for CDMA EV-DO Rev. A networks. It reached a settlement with Digital Technology...

India added 9.2m wireless subscribers (GSM+CDMA+ WLL) in July, bringing its total to 296m. India had 335m telephone connections at the end of July, with a teledensity of 29.1%. Total broadband subscribers base reached 4.6m by the end of July. Colombia...

ZTE, ALU, Huawei and Fujitsu have been awarded a CDMA contract globally worth $1.5bn. ZTE is reportedly given half this contract. Ericsson will expand Siminn' s WCDMA/HSPA network in Iceland. It is helping StarCell (Cambodia) in combining a GSM base station...

DT plans to re-organize its call centers over a 2-year period. It wants to reduce their number to 24 (from 63) in Germany, and move 8,000 workers on a total of 18,000. Elsewhere, It said it is interested in acquiring a 15% holding in Serbia's telecom...

JasTel Network (Thailand, an affiliate of Jasmine), plans to invest $30m to deploy an international undersea cable link. China Telecom buys the stake held by China Unicom in Unicom-BREW, a JV between China Unicom and Qualcomm. DTAC (Thailand) will upgrade...

PCCW reports revenues of $1.5bn, down 2%, but mobile revenues growing 27% to $110m. EBITDA fell 5% to $440m. China Telecom announced lower-than-expected results, with a 1H08 net income of $1.8bn, down 8%, on revenues of $13.2bn, up 1%. Its fixed business...

EU may legislate further and charge mobile operators that charge for voice calls by the minute rather than seconds. New Zealand has invited applications for its $240m Broadband Investment Fund. The deadline for the applications will be on Sept. 30. Iran...

ZTE reported unaudited 1H08 results. As reported sales amounted to $2.9bn (+30%), of which $1bn (-2%) in China and $1.9bn (+59%) in export. Sales grew 42% in Asia to $819m, 107% in Africa to $556m and 49% in other regions to $461m. Sales were made of...