Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Bouygues Telecom (France) is testing Paris train transport ticketing (metro, RER and Transilien) with a mobile phone. Turkey's Cukurova sold almost 6% of stake in Turkcell for $592m (buyer unknown). Turkcell is another hot point between Teliasonera (37%...

Brazil had almost 97m (+1%qoq) mobile subscribers at the end of Oct. China Unicom added almost 1.3m subscribers in October, bringing its total to 140m, of which 140m are GSM. China Mobile reported the addition of 4.6m new subscribers last month, bringing...

Kevin J. Martin is reconducted as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Comverse has promoted its current chief administrative officer, Paul Robinson, as COO. Raz Alon, (interim CEO), Susan Bodwick, Charles Burdick, Richard Nottenburg,...

Everybody has heard of Skype voice calls on fixed broadband access (be it DSL, Cable or else). Between PCs, calls are free, as well as the software, but to call traditional phone number, small fees are paid, lower than traditional voice pricing. You can...

The gap was highlighted in a new report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Information Economy Report. The gap is not narrowing with rich countries increasing by 15% in six months its number of broadband subscribers and reaching...

A recent report from Yano Research provides interesting figures on the Fiber-to-the-Home market in Japan. With 5.4m FTTH subscribers at the end of March 06, the growth has been 88%. It is forecast that 3m new subscribers would be added each year, bringing...

H3C is the name of a JV formed by Huawei and 3Com in Nov. 2003, with respectively 49%/ 51% ownership. H3C had $170m in revenue and $18m in net profits, about half of 3Com figures. So, H3C is quite vital to 3Com, as other 3Com unit is loosing money. In...

The move duplicates Google' strategy. Google, along with Eartlink, will build a WiFi network in San Francisco. Microsoft will help MetroFi in providing a free, ad-supported wireless network in Portland, Ore. Revenue from the ads will fund the network's...

Teliasonera will re-organize into four product-based units and targets to reach €11bn in revenues in two years. The three product lines (mobility services, broadband services, integrated enterprise services) will deal with operations in the Nordic and...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, almost 20m WiMAX subscribers would be counted worldwide by the end of 2010 (from 220k in 2006). Most of those subscribers are in the APAC region. According to Dell'Oro, worldwide...