Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

South Africa's Second National Operator has changed its name to Neotel, and has launched wholesale international voice and IP transit services. China Telecom is looking at foreign telecom groups that might be interested in taking strategic minority stakes,...

Pipex (UK) will start a six-month trial of WiMAX services in December in the UK. Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) in Poland plans to offer triple-play services. Falcon, the undersea cable from Flag Telecom (Reliance in India) has started operating.

Millicom International has won the bidding to acquire Colombian mobile operator Colombia Movil, operating under the Ola brand. Spice Telecom (India) is looking at a $300m IPO soon, as part of a $2bn expansion plan.

Argentina: 26.7m (+49%) mobile lines in service at the end of July. Colombia Movil ( Ola) has about 2.5m mobile subscribers. Taiwan: 3G subscriber base reached 2m as of the end of June this year.

Jean-Marc Odet has been named Business Sales Director at Nortel France. Erenis, a French triple play operator in Paris, has hired Daniel Caclin, ex FT executive. DT is reshufling its mnagement team with CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke in charge of overall responsibility...

For years, Alcatel has tried to be in the top three vendors in this market. But we have to acknoledge that it missed the three first steps in the mobile market: analog, 2G and 3G. It was not out, however, and wa struggling to stay in touch with the market...

Few months ago, Telcoflash announced that a small start-up, called Sanswire Networks, was thinking that robotic airships could bear mobile base stations in order to build a low-cost cellular networks. Its CEO always feels that the 'stratellites' are a...

Can media groups duplicate the same strategic mistake the made with on-line music. With iTunes, Apple had taken the market by storm, established the rules, and behind, media groups are struggling to eat a piece of the cake. On the video market, the scenario...

With its RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive, Europe has tried to limit using six toxic elements in electronic devices. Greepeace has ranked companies making efforts to comply with this European decree. Nokia and Dell lead the ranking...

3G Americas is reporting that GSM has taken 51% of the market share in the Americas region, versus 38% last year. Growth has been driven by CDMA operators transitioning to GSM in CALA, where GSM accounts now for 63% of the total cellular market, while...