Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Holland had 4.6m broadband subscribers in June (up4%) and over 1m VOIP subscribers. China Telecom had over 25m broadband subscribers in June. Vimpelcom (Russia) announced a mobile subscriber base of almost 52m, up 46%, in Sept. UK: there are 735k lines...

Vimpelcom (Russia) announced 2Q06 net profit is up 23% to $195m, on revenue of $1.1bn, up 46%. EBITDA rose 42% to $562m

Ciena named Bruce L. Claflin to its board of directors. Telenor names Stein-Erik Vellan as CEO of Mobi 63 (Serbia).

Rocky month for both companies as analysts are split on the value for Alcatel of the deal. Reactions are contrasted on both Atlantic sides. In the US: Dresdner Kleinwort wrote negatively on the deal, but Institutional Shareholder Services spoke favorably...

Google is launching Google Apps for Your Domain (www.google.com/a), a serious threat for Microsoft. Starting with Gmail for e-mails, Google Talk for IM and VOIP, Google Calendar for agenda et Google Page Creator Web page creation, Google is said to add...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, mobile TV will begin to take off in the next two years, and predicts that more than 10% of all U.S. mobile users will subscribe to mobile video services by 2009. Windows dominates...

Microsoft will offer wireless products with the Xbox 360. First, introduction in Nov. of a Wireless Racing Wheel, then a wireless headset by year-end. Sony bought Grouper.com, the eight worldwide video on line player. Safran (Sagem/ Snecma) could sell...

Motorola is reinforcing its commitment to WiMAX by announcing plans to develop mobile WiMAX chipsets. Cisco has signed a distribution deal with HP to incorporate Cisco's WiFi products in enterprise deployments. Redback claims it is N2 in the router market...

Kineto is expanding the capability of its unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology by announcing support for 3G/UMTS.

Lucent has been selected by KPN to deploy and integrate its all-IP network. Lucent is the Prime Contractor, in charge of coordinationg up to 20 vendors. Huawei will build a pan-Asian digital information network for Telecommunication Cambodia. Siemens/EADS...