Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Amp'd (MVNO in the USA) gained 200k mobile users in one quarter. Telefonica O2 Czech Republic has currently 500,000 ADSL customers. Japan: 955.6k new customers in March, of which KDDI gains 530k mobile users to 28.2m, while Softbank added 127.6k to 15.9m,...

Telecom Italia chairman Guido Rossi has resigned. Buora will replace him. South African operator Telkom CEO , Papi Molotsane, has resigned, effective immediately. Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Ashish Chouwdhary as India and Nepal sub-region he...

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We already knew that Pirelli wants to sell its 80% stake in Olimpia, the holding controlling Telecom Italia, eventually loosing about half of its purchasing cost. But news are accelerating this week with a lot of declared or not bidders. First it was...

In its latest report on EU competitive environment, The EU Commission said the telecom market is developing, but that some breaks still prevent it to boom. More competition (including cross-border competition) is THE solution to create a real pan-European...

Nokia Siemens Networks is born and alive, from April 1 st . The company had revenues of €17bn (proforma) and operates in about 150 countries. Currently ranked third in the telecom market, it ambitions to become number one. The company is made of six units:...

It took some seven years to incorporate multimedia telephony into a mobile standard, but it is done. Real-time video, text and voice communications are now included in the 3G Multimedia Telephony specification approved by 3GPP. It is a great promise for...

A new market is emerging: Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or MPHT. It is totally unrelated to cellphone, and just targets people who no longer get their TV fix at home. It is a new opportunity for broadcasters that have to expand their current...

A few set of market information released this week: According to GFK, 22% of French households are equipped with DTT (digital terrestrial TV). Screen Digest estimates that Europe would have 5.6m IPTV households by the end of this year (2.9m last year)....

ALU plans to launch a new IP Transformation Center in Singapore, to bolster its network of IPTCs worldwide (Belgium, and two in the USA). Cisco has formed a Russian venture capital fund to invest in start-ups and local investment funds in Russia. Its...