Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Philips sold its remaining mobile phone assets to China CEC. 1Q07 revenues for this business was worth $74m. Samsung has shipped almost 35m mobile phones in 1Q07. Huawei plans selling 2m CDMA mobile phones in China this year. SUN has acquired SavaJe Technologies,...

Kasenna will provide CTV Telecom with infrasructure for VOD and IPTV services. Ericsson will provide microwaves and optical network to Antel (Uruguay). Arris has been again selected by the Mexican cable Multiple System Operator (MSO) Cablemas to provide...

Tango Telecom has been ordered to provide a data billing platform to Mexico' s Iusacell. Ericsson has been awarded a contract to supply network equipment as a part of ZTE order from China Mobile. It was awarded a contract from Velcom (Belarus) for GSM...

Akamay is purchasing peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery specialist Red Swoosh for about $15m.

TT&T (Thailand) will start IPTV service in May. German cable companies have tripled broadband internet customer base in 2006 to almost 400k. Reliance (India) would outsource IP operations in a $1.5bn deal. IBM, and EDS are shortlisted. Telefonica and...

The Essar Group (India) seeks to sell its unit BPL Mobile, a Mumbai mobile operator, for $1bn. Teliasonera is launching HSDPA trial network in Sweden. T-Mobile Hungary has launched a mobile TV trial using DVB-H technology.

Russia has passed the 155m mobile subscriber base mark in March 07. India added 6.1m new mobile users in March 07. The total number of GSM subscribers had reached 121.4m at the end of March, up 5% qoq. Bharti Airtel added 1.7m new subscribers to bring...

Etisalat (UAE) has reported a 36% increase to $300m in 2006 outside revenues. It has operations (outside UAE), in Saudi Arabia (Mobily), Sudan (Canar), Egypt (Etisalat Misr), Tanzania (Zantel), and Afghanistan, and has made invetments in Pakistan (PTLC)...

Vonage CEO Michael Snyder has stepped down, temporarily replaced by Jeffrey Citron.

The vendor selection for TD-SCDMA networks by China Mobile unsurprisingly favors local vendors. ZTE is the bid winner with about 46% of the contracts, or $1.5bn. ZTE will deploy networks in Beijing, Qinhuangdao and Tianjin in the east, Shenyang in the...