Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Vodafone Germany, T-Mobile and O2 Germany will jointly market mobile TV services via DVB-H technology. Digicel (Caribbean operator) has begun offering mobile services in El Salvador. Hutchison Essar (India) plans to launch a $2bn tender for GSM equipment....

Starcomm (Nigeria) has registered 500k CDMA subscribers since it was awarded a UAL licence last year. Nigeria reported that 38m telephone lines were activated, but 6m seem inactive. NA cable operators added more than 1.3m VOIP subscribers in 4Q06, to...

Yahoo reports 1Q07 net income down 11% to 142m, on revenues of $1.7bn, up 7%.

Teliasonera plans to slash about 170 people in network operations. Pasquale Pistorio is the new Telecom Italia CEO.

First the list by customer base: 1- China Mobile with 300m mobile subscribers; 2- China Unicom with 142m users; 3-DoCoMo with 52m; 4-Telkomsel with 36m; 5-Bharti with 32m; 6-Reliance with 30m; 7-KDDI with 25.5m; 8-BSNL with 23.6m; 9-Hutchison with 23m;...

We already reported of an open mobile TV alliance to make future deployments interoperableand future-proof. Now the alliance has a name: Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum (bmcoforum) and projects to simplify the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Mobile Broadcast...

Good news: NA telecom spending grew 8% to almost $69bn in 2006, according to Infonetics, and would continue to grow to $77bn by 2010. Simultaneously, Capex-to-revenue ratios are expected to remain stable at around 17% through 2008 due to a number of mid-term...

India is one of the world's fastest-growing mobile telecom markets, with currently some 150m users. About 5.5m new subscribers were added on average each month in 2007, and last month growth was of 6.1m. Caution, however, as since March 06, WLL (wireless...

Research & Markets reports results of a survey on consumer response to the use of WiFi-only phone. Respondents most often answered no or maybe, due to limited range of use, cost of WiFi phones and poor quality of service. Is it really significant? Not...

Fujitsu has launched a new video encoder/ decoder, the IP 9500. Motorola and ECI Telecom have signed a new strategic relationship to integrate their respective FTTx and IP DSLAM solutions. Seachange and Imagine are teaming to boost cable operator' s bandwidth...