Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

MobileOne (Singapore) could report a net profit of $23.5m, up 5.4%, and mobile revenues of $90m, up 3% qoq. VNPT (Vietnam) posts 9m- revenues of $ 1.45bn, up 5.4%.

DoCoMo plans to develop I-mode Internet by making strategic investment in a China based cellular operator. BskyB , a satellite broadcaster, is planning to acquire Easynet to enter the highly competitive telecom market in the UK, for abouy $272m. T-Mobile...

More than 40 service providers have in mind bidding for regional WiMAX licenses in France. Bidders include telcos, ASPs and ISPs, Cable operators, highways operators, 15 regions and some cities. More than 10,000 counties in France are still without broadband...

China is poised to become by 2008 the largest telecom market by revenues with $90bn, from current $ 70bn. Algerie Telecom plans to sell 30% stake. Many European operators are interested. ISPs are widely considering migrating to IPv6 (Internet protocol...

Sony Ericsson posts Q3 net profit rising to €104m (+16%), while sales gained 22% to €2.1bn. It sold 13.8m mobile phones in 3Q, up 29% boosted by camera phones and Walkman music phones. Its ASP (average selling price), however, continues to slide yoy....

Ericsson has landed a contract from Movistar (Argentina) to expand its GSM and microwave network. It is upgrading Cingular Wireless' UMTS infrastructure in the Dallas/Fort Worth market with HSDPA access. It signed $129m contracts from two China Mobile...

Cingular has awarded Lucent a four-year agreement to provide a comprehensive IMS-based (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution. Huawei is providing Nigerian operator Suburban Telecom with equipment and related services for building its optical fiber network....

Samsung is introducing the industry' s first cellular phone with a massive 3GB memory. Palm is teaming up with competitor Research in Motion to bring RIM's wireless-email software to Palm's Treo 650 smartphone. Nokia has estimated its services business...

ADVA (Germany) is acquiring Covaro Networks, an Ethernet access maker, for $24m. It is the second recent acquisition after the purchase of Metro Packet Systems. Salira (Hitachi Group) announced its new Salira 3000 Series, a standards-based product line...

IBM has acquired privately held DataPower, which provides products to improve security and increase the speed of processing computer transactions. Alcatel opens R&D facility in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Huawei will support PCCW plans to fully...