Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Verizon Wireless added 6.7m mobile customers in 2007 (+2m in 4Q07), to bring its subscriber base to 65.7m at the end of the year. Verizon wireline' s total base of phone lines decreased over 8% to 41.4m. Broadband connections stood at 8.2m as of Dec....

Zain ended 2007 with 42.4m mobile subscribers. Bharti Airtel added a record 6.3m mobile subscribers during the quarter to end the year with 55.2m customers (+73%). TIMEdotcom (Malaysia) will transfer its 3G license (with the governmental approval) to...

Verizon Comms. posted 4Q07 net income of $1.1bn (+4%) on revenues of $23.8bn, up 5.5%. Wireline revenues fell 1% to $12.5bn. Wireless revenues grew 13% to $11.4bn. ARPU was about $51, of which $11 in data. For the year, wireless revenues reached $44bn,...

NTT DoCoMo reports FY3Q07 (4Q07) net income of €830m, up 38%, on revenues of €7.7bn, down 1.4%. For the first nine months DoCoMo reports its net profit is down 7% to €2.4bn. For the fiscal year, DoCoMo left its net income unchanged at €3bn. TPSA (Poland)...

Jean-Christophe Giroux quits ALU France management team, but remains in the group. ALU France has presented an extension of its voluntary-based restructuring program that would result in the loss of some 400 positions, all of which will be done on a voluntary...

With 4Q07 strong financial results, Nokia clearly demonstrated its domination in the handset market, when rivals are struggling to maintain their market position and profitability. 4Q07 net profit increased by 44% to €1.8bn on revenues of €15.7bn, up...

Motorola announced a 4Q07 net loss of $100m, an operating loss of $19m, on sales of $9.7bn, down 18%. Most of the decline is due to weak mobile phone sales. The mobile phone division reported revenues of $4.8bn, down 38%, and an operating loss of $388m...

Within Nokia presentation, NSN reported relative improvement in financials. 4Q07 sales amounted to €4.6bn (+25% qoq). Comparison with 2006 figures are meaningless as NSN started operation in April 2007. Operating margin improved to 0% thanks to higher...

First estimates on the 2007 mobile handset market are surfacing, and they are converging on the following numbers (I took Strategy Analytics figures). The global market reaches 1.12bn (+12%) units sold in 2007 and is expected to grow to 1.24bn (+10%)...

Fiber currently is a hot topic with operators starting deploying fiber in the access network, it is a fact. But copper is not dead. Following two European projects – Obanet and Gandalf – researchers have developed groundbreaking technology to boost existing...