Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Mobilkom Austria has been granted the third GSM/ UMTS license in Serbia for €320m. Vimpelcom (Russia) has agreed to buy 90% of Armentel from OTE (Greece) for $463m. Ten-Mobile (MVNO in France) will offer free of charge MSN Messenger on its handsets. Proximus...

France: there were 49.8m mobile subscribers in France at the end of Sept. Philippines: PLDT had 23m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept., of which 16.5m under the Smart brand and 6.4m under Piltel brand. Telecom Italia has 8.2m broadband customers in...

Wataniya Telecom (Kuwait) reported 3Q06 revenues of $1bn, up 40%, and EBITDA of $463m, up 67%. Singtel (Singapore) posted 3Q06 revenues of $2.1bn (flat) and net profit of $ 613m, up 19%. IH06 revenues were $4.1bn, down 1%, and net profit of $1.15bn, up...

Nortel announces Dr. Kristina M. Johnson appointment to its Board of Directors. Dr. Kristina M. Johnson is dean of Duke University School of Engineering. Nick Land and Alan Jebson have been appointed as non-executive directors with Vodafone. Swisscom...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the IP PBX market in China is entering a fast-growth phase, with revenues growing to $480m in 2010 from currently $164m. Consequently, traditional PBX revenues in China will decline...

According to In-Stat, Cable TV operators reach some 355m households worldwide (about half in two countries: 30% in China and 20% in the US). Household penetration is about 30% and is almost plateauing. Rising consumer demand for more TV content, and new...

It is in the air, even if it is not for tomorrow. Several trials are under way worldwide, but a new project is involving five companies: three telecom operators (Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom) and two banks (CIC and BNP Paribas), in short more than...

According to GSA‘s new survey on HSDPA deployments in the world, there are 73 networks in 42 countries using HSDPA technology. This number has increased by more than 50% in the last three months (25 networks), and could reach 130 by the end of the year....

RAD Data will provide Ethernet over SDH for Bezeq Int. (an ISP) and Ico (long-distance telecom company) in Israel.

Ericsson has received a 3G WCDMA order from TeliaSonera' s Spanish mobile unit, Xfera. Amdocs will provide its OSS system to KPN (NL).