Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Telecom Italia has decided to buy AOL Germny from Time Warner for €675m in cash. Simultaneously, its chairman, Marco Tronchetti Provera, resigned and the board named Guido Rossi to take over role, amid a public clash with Italian Prime Minister Romano...

KPN is buying Tiscali NL for €255m in cash. Fastweb (Italy) plans to offer quadruple-play services in the near future, following its deal with Vodafone Italy for broadband services. NA cable operators signed up more than 1 million IP phone customers in...

Telkomsel (Indonesia) starts offering 3G services using some 300 base stations. Vodafone will offer from 2008 femto cells for sale in New Zealand. A base station will cost $385m. It reports more than 10m subscribers in Europe for its Passport roaming...

Canada mobile subscriber base rose 12% to 16.8m in 1Q06. India added 6M new mobile subscribers in August, bringing the total to 164m..

Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman of Telecom Italia, has resigned. Guido Rossi is the new TI chairman. Anders Bruse has been appointed President of TeliaSonera Sweden , replacing Marie Ehrling who will leave the company.

It is an evidence that private-equity companies are more and more often interfering in the telecom market. Remember that two well-known European telcos (i.e. TDC in Denmark and Greece telco), as well as more recently Freescale Semiconductor have passed...

Current termination rate control in the UK has to expire in March 07. But Ofcom found that regulation remains necessary to protect consumers from high prices. It is why it has proposed new controls on wholesale mobile voice call termination charges (specifically...

German regulators formally told DT it has 3 months to open its new VDSL network to competitors. DT now has been ordered to come up with pricing (reviewed by the German regulator) for competitors that want use its VDSL network. DT has been in sight line...

Ovum-RHK has unveiled its optical networking market latest estimates. Alcatel remains the market leader with a 15% market share over past 12 months, but with only 13.5% during 2Q06. The story is apparently different from last week info from Infonetics...

Last week Telcoflash reported that the Indian government was awarding millions of dollars in grants to African countries for a cross-continental communications network. The $1bn joint initiative with the African Union is to build a Pan-African e-Network...