Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia reported 1Q07 results in line with expectations, except earnings. Sales were at €9.9bn, up 4%, and earnings of €979m, down 7%. The operating margin declined 1.5 point to 13%. Mobile phones revenues declined 5% to €5.6bn, while networks revenues...

Motorola reported bleak results for 1Q07. First quaterly loss since 2004, due to poor handset sales and average selling price decline, to $181m, compared with a profit of $686m in 1Q06. Handset sales were down 15% to $5.4bn in value and down 2% to 45m...

First researches on 1Q07 handset sales start to be published. Strategics Analytics found that 252m units were shipped in 1Q07, up 12% only. This was the first quarter in two years that growth has been below 20%. This is apparently due to excess inventory...

The saga continues... with AT&T announcing it abandons the race, but its partner America Movil seems wanting to continue, in spite of Brazil' s telecom regulator Anatel warning AMX could face local barriers if it acquires a stake in TI, the owner of TIM...

Nobody knows what the market would be in a mid-term, in spite of market researches more or less optimistic, but players are very active on the subject. Everybody is preparing itself. Nine of the US TV broadcast groups (covering 85% of total TV households)...

In its annual report on i2010, the EU policy strategy on ICT, the EU Commission analyses the economic impact of deploying ICT (information and communication technology). The focus is to combine R&D, regulatory tools and public-private partnerships to...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Crown Castle/ Modeo, their mobile TV trial has revealed relative strong demand for mobile TV: an average 15mn of use a day, with 64% of users were very satisfied and 35% satisfied. According...

Calix Networks could file for an IPO in the next few weeks. Motorola is close on a deal to buy Terayon (to be announced on Monday) for about $165m. Avici Systems is exiting the core router business. Very few start-ups succeeded to compete against giants...

Nokia launches HSDPA handset 6120. Shortfall: RIM' s Blackberry e-mail service experienced a serious system failure in N.A. for several hours. The nature of the breakdown is a poor testing of a software upgrade that was supposed to optimize system cache...

Ericsson will build an IMS-based multimedia network in Beijing, for China Netcom. Amdocs got a sevne-year managed services deal with AT&T. Cisco would be ( to be announced soon) the new core router supplier of AT&T, with its CRS-1 router.