Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Bell Canada will provide full-length movies to mobile phones for about $5 per movie. Hutchison 3G Ireland covers now 85% of the population. China Netcom indicates that it will not build TD-SCDMA 3G network, but would prefer buy Unicom' s existing GSM...

France had 1.4m MVNO subscribers at the end of 2006, or about 2.8% of total mobile subscriber base. MVNO new subscribers accounted for 23% of new mobile subscribers in 4Q06. Brazil has passed 100m mobile users in January. China Unicom has added 1.4m new...

Rogers Comms. (Canada) reported positive results. 4Q06 net income stood at $151m, vs loss of $58m last year, on revenues of $2bn, up 14%.4Q06 operating profit rose 46% to $647m and FY operating profit grew 34% to $2.5bn. For the year 2006, it reported...

T-Mobile USA marketing boss, Mike Butler, has resigned Ron Garriques, head of the mobile device division of Motorola, leaves for Dell. Nokia plans to cut about 700 jobs, mainly in R&D, IT operations and market sales. Telefonica Mexico has hired former...

Vodafone will pay $11bn in cash for the 67% stake of Hutchison Telecom in Hutchison Essar, and plans to acquire the remaining 33% stake from the Essar group or to be their partner. It has agreed to allow the Bharti Group to buy 5.6% of the interest, or...

With 60% market share in Turkey and a solid mobile user base fo almost 32m, Turkcell needs to expand at home first with a move into the fixed broadband space, where competition is not sharp (a single provider: Turk Telecom), but also with building quality...

The MIT researchers could have fixed a problem that has long plagued fiber-optic networks: how to easily transmit light waves over long distance, harnessing full power and speed. Light waves gradually weaken over distances and tools to fix it are today...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Strategy Analytics, the number of mobile data users would increase to about 2.5bn in 2011 (from current 1.8bn). Mobile data spending would also grow to $200bn in 2011, from current $125bn....

Cisco has bought start-up Five Across, a social networking platform developer. Sonus could be interested in Zynetix, a GSM softswitch company, to firm up its mobile strategy. Nortel confirms plans to focus on a limited number of areas: "4G", Carrier Ethernet,...

Ericsson is buying Entrisphere, a GPON specialist, to re-enforce its access solution portfolio. Entrisphere was already Ericsson' s partner. The deal comes as no surprise and could be worth $290m. Alcatel-Lucent claims n2 position in global IP/MPLS Edge...