Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Alcatel-Lucent has won an order from Mostelecom (cable operator in Russia) to deploy an IP network. It will also deploy an IP-based broadband access network for Elion Enterprise, the largest telco in Estonia. UTStarcom will provide MTNL (India) with the...

Alcatel-Lucent announced it has been awarded a contract by China Unicom to deploy a CDMA 2000 1xED-VO Rev A. in Macau. Motorola will provide network planning for South African Neotel operator' s WiMAX and CDMA networks. Nokia will integrate its customized...

Huawei reported orders of $11bn, up 34%, in 2006, of which 65% is made abroad.

Tiscali (Italy) has sold the business customer division of its German unit to Ecotel (Germany) for €19m. The deal follows the sale of its German private broadband, narrowband operations to Freenet last week. Bouygues Telecom and Altitude Telecom (both...

Any-Port.com has launched the first WiMAX service along the French Riviera, with a full coverage of all Mediterranean yachting ports within 12 months. Comcast and Time Warner Cable plan (separately) to introduce customized VOIP offerings for SMBs over...

SFR (France) plans to join mobile payment trial initiated by NRJ Mobile and Credit Mutuel bank in Strasbourg. Mobile operators are looking for alternative to Google and Yahoo. Germany plans to auction additional UMTS licenses in 2008 in the 2.6GHz band....

Mostelecom (cable operator in Russia) has about 3m subscribers. PLDT (Philippines) said it had 24m mobile subscribers at the end of 2006. Ukraine's Kyivstar susbcriber base rose 3% in January to 22.2m mobile users. Singtel (Singapore) reported a total...

KPN (NL) reports 4Q06 net profit down 31% to €427m on sales of €3bn, down 1.6%. FY sales were €12bn and EBITDA was €4.8bn. KPN said it expects both sales and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization to be flat in 2007. Neuf Cegetel...

Alcatel-Lucent: rumors of additional job cuts. In addition to 9,000 layoffs announced, 6,000 to 11,000 other jobs could be fired, almost double of previous announcement. Unions could call for a strike. Sony Ericsson will hire 100 engineers in the US....

It is always fashionable (but also merely effective) keeping its phone number when churning, but it is not really successful in the market. While introduced several years ago, with trumpets and big noise, less than 10% of mobile numbers have been ported...