Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

The French government has launched an initiative to make broadband internet available for all French people by 2012. The plan, established by Eric Besson, the minister for the digital economy, is not yet finalized and should be disclosed by July-end....

During the annual meeting, ALU shareholders, upset by poor results and stock decline during their tenure, as well as high wages of the CEO and chairman, voted the change of the rules surrounding the dismissal of the CEO and chairman. Now, a simple majority...

3GPP has finally adopted an official architecture for the Home NodeB (HNB) femtocell-to-core network connectivity and started work on a new standard. The decision follows last week approval of a joint proposal made by ALU, Kineto, Motorola and NEC, for...

A few set of market information released this week: According to an IAB study, online advertising in Europe reached €11bn in 2007, versus €9bn in the USA. IMS Research predicts that there would be 62bn mobile banking transactions in 2012, made by 900m...

France : at the end of March, there were over 16m (+19%) broadband users, of which 15.5m are ADSL. More than 4m lines are fully unbundled. Hungary said, via its national watchdog NHH, that there were over 11.4m mobile users in the country at the end of...

Android, Google' s mobile platform, will be 100% open source. Developers will be able to develop open source software as well as integrate proprietary software. The platform is supported by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Siemens sold its Wireless Modules...

Ericsson said it won a contract with Meteor Mobile (Ireland) to supply a W-CDMA/HSPA network and microwave equipment. It inked a 4-year contract wit T-Mobile NL to manage operations for the former Orange network in NL. It was awarded a managed services...

T-Mobile Germany will start a LTE pilot network by the end of 2009. Mobilkom Austria launches its mobile TV services based on the DVB-H standard, and has signed a content contract with Media Broadcast. Vodafone is planning to buy an additional 12.5% stake...

Softbank (Japan) will sell the iPhone by the end of the year. Warid Telecom (Pakistan) would invest $1.5bn this year and another $1bn next year to upgrade and expand its services in the country. PCCW (Singapore) plans to spin off its telecom and media...

PT Telkom (Indonesia) reports 1Q08 net profit of $ 342m (+5%) on revenues of $1.6bn (+8.5%). EBITDA improved 6% to $1bn. Safaricom (Kenya) said its net profit reached $199m (+15%) on revenues of $882m (+29%). Vodafone posts strong results with FY08 net...