Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

BT reported 3Q06 revenues of €7.3bn, up 4%. New wave revenues increased 20% to €2.6bn and account now for 35% of total revenues. EBITDA rose 2% to €2.1bn. Capex rose 17% in the quarter to €1.2bn. For its FY1H period, BT reported sales of €14.6bn, up 3%,...

A few set of market information released this week: 3G Americas estimates there are 290 million mobile phones in Latin America, of which 66% use GSM technology, 21% CDMA and 11% TDMA.

Nvidia is to buy its rival PortalPlayer for $357m. Alcatel is teaming with key test and measurement (T&M) vendors (Agilent Technologies, IneoQuest, JDSU andSpirent) to deliver an end-to-end solution for IP-based video deployments. Oracle will buy SPL...

Alcatel and Archos will jointly develop the worldwide-first DVB-H-S enabled handset to be available in 4Q07. Samsung is already working on the subject with Alcatel. DVB-H-S combines hybrid satellite- terrestrial broadcasting in the S band (2.2GHz). Cisco...

Samsung has unveiled a dual-mode CDMA/ WiMAX handset on the Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006. Sony Ericsson is to buy Symbian UIQ unit, based in Sweden, and specialized in developing user interface and application platforms.

RAD Data will provide Ethernet over SDH for Bezeq Int. (an ISP) and Ico (long-distance telecom company) in Israel. Huawei was selected as the lead contractor for building a $30m rural telephone network in Ghana. ZTE will provide telephone equipment to...

Amdocs will provide its OSS system to KPN (NL). UTStarcom will supply a MovingMedia 2000 all-IP CDMA2000 network to SeaMobile, a supplier of advanced at-sea mobile voice and data services. Nokia is supporting Optus' HSDPA trials in Australia. It will...

Acme reported 3Q06 revenues of $22m, jumping 229%, and net income of $6.8m, ve loss last year. 9-mo revenues were $60.4m, up 158%, and net income reached $18m. Acme raise about $84m in an IPO of about 10m shares. Nortel announced 3Q06 revenues of $3bn,...

Telefonica is in talks to join the consortium buying control of PCCW (HK). China provided a $120m loan to Uganda to boost high-speed internet infrastructure. Fund equity firm KKR has offered €40bn to buy Vivendi Group assets, but the talks failed but...

Softbank and News Corp. plan to bring MySpace, the Internet social networking site, to Asia. PT Telkom (Indonesia) will participate in the nation's fiber-optic network construction tender to be launched in 10/07 and cost $1.5bn. Hanaro Telecom has agreed...