Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Huawei got Telefonica broadband ADSL contract in Spain. Nortel is providing its optical technology in the core and metro networks of MTC (Kuwait). Motorola and Teledata (India) will deploy rural wireless broadband access in the province of Madhya Pradesh...

Ericsson will provide a mobile TV solution to Proximus (Belgium). Motorola will upgrade MTS' mobile network in Moscow (Russia). Fujitsu will supply super 3G wireless base stations dor DoCoMo's next Super 3G network. Motorola and NEC were chosen last week...

Dell announced 3Q06 net profit of $677m, up 12%. Its operating profit amounted to $824m on revenues of $14.4bn, up 3.5%. But Dell is under a SEC investigation and the announced results are not final.

Blackstone Group is interested by a stake in Telecom Italia if shareholders wanted to sell. Another mark of the interest of equity firms for the telecom market. In the same time, however, APAX wants to sell its stake in Versatel (Germany) and exit the...

Comcast (US) and Walt Disney have signed a multibillion-dollar distribution deal allowing Comcast to distribute Disney content through its VOD service. Comcast has also bought Disney's 39.5% stake in the E! Entertainment Television channel for $1.2bn....

Libercell (Liberia) has launched its GPRS/EDGE network, as well as MMS service. Pelephone (Israel) is a new operator offering GSM/ HSDPA services while today in the CDMA world. The launch is scheduled for 2008. Vodacom (S. Africa) plans to acquire a stake...

Maxis (Malaysia) reports 8.9m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. China is expected to have 459m mobile subscribers at the end of the year (+48m in the year or +12%).

Maxis (Malaysia) reports 3Q06 net profit of $140m, up 28%, on revenues up 25% to $547m, of which 87% in Malaysia.

Time Warner has named AOL veteran Ron Grant as unit COO. Change at T-Com' s CTO office: Friedrich Fuss replaces Roland Kittel. Ericsson will change its Strategy & Product Management director. Torbjorn Nilsson will quit, while Joakim Westh, head of group...

The merger between Alcatel and Lucent can go on. The green light is given by the US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, or CFIUS, and followed by President Bush, removing the final hurdle to the combination of the two companies. Just both companies...