Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Analysts doubt that Apple will reach the goal of selling 10m iPhone units in 2008. According to developers and analysts, Android -based handsets would not be a mass market solution before two years. Opera Software has chosen back Google as its default...

NSN will supply Brasil Telecom with an DWDM optical backbone network in North America. NEC and Tyco will lay down 10,000km of fiber optic submarine cable between Asia and the US for the Unity Consortium. Advanced Digital Broadcast will provide its ADB-3800W...

Tekelec has secured a contract to upgrade T-Mobile UK signaling network.

Nortel announced 4Q07 net loss of $861m (compared with a loss of $82m a year earlier) on revenues down 4% to $3.3bn. The loss is mainly due to one-time charges (taxes, restructure, shareholder lawsuit settlement, ..).

T-Mobile USA has completed the acquisition of SunCom; the move adds some 1.1m subscribers. Teliasonera has extended its international backbone into Eastern Europe, beginning in Ukraine. The Bahraini government will sell most of the 67% stake it holds...

KPN (NL) has signed a deal with Sprint Nextel to use its IP networks in North America. MGTS (Russia) plans to deploy a $100m ADSL2+ infrastructure with internet broadband speed up to 24Mbit/s. Hellas Sat will deploy use Newtec's Satellite Multimedia Broadband...

Qwest announced it is looking to re-negotiate its current mobile partnership (with Sprint Nextel), but Verizon Wireless said it has been in talks with Qwest about a possible wholesale agreement. 3 Australia plans expanding 3G coverage with network-sharing...

MetroPCS (USA) had almost 4m subscribers at the end of 2007. Vietnam currently has 18.6m internet users (+22%), of which 1.3m are broadband. Sprint Nextel ended 2007 with 53.8m subscribers, of which 35m (+11%) on its CDMA network, and 17.3m on iDEN (down...

Metro PCS (USA) posted 4Q07 net loss of $47m,down from $17m last year, on revenues of $591m, up 31%. Telekom Austria reported full year revenues of €4.9bn, up 3.3%, and EBITDA of €1.9bn (down 3%). Sprint Nextel reports 4Q07 revenues of $9.8bn (-6%) and...

Siemens will lay off some 7000 workers, or 40% of SEN' s total headcount; about 3,800 in its Siemens Enterprise Communications unit and another 3,000 in its sold manufacturing and other units. Bernard Guehennec has been named as new CEO of Sogeti , the...