Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

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Pasquale Pistorio , 69, STMicroelectronics CEO will leave his armchair. After years of success, he is retiring, and will be replaced by Carlo Bozotti, the STMicroelectronics US branch director. CompTel/Alts CEO H. Russell Frisby left the company. Since...

China Unicom added 1.4m new subscribers (65% in GSM and 35% in CDMA) in February. Unicom currently has 86m GSM users and 28.9m CDMA users. China Mobile added 3.1m new subscribers in February, and reached a subscriber base of 210.6m.

MTS ( Russia ) reported 4Q04 profit of $209m, up 37%, EBITDA of $498m (+24%) and sales of $ 1.1bn (+40%). MTS had 34.2m subscribers at the end of 2004. Telewest ( UK cable operator) announced 4Q04 EBITDA growth of 14%, operating income growth of 235%...

Tele2 ( Sweden ) has launch the first worldwide free mobile TV service, called TV channel Tango.TV (TTV). The service is available on 3G mobile handsets. Telenor launches commercial mobile service in Pakistan , one year after being awarded the license....

In Spain , ONO and Auna, two local service providers, are again talking merger. The daily Expansion said ONO has made a 2.7bn offer for the cable business of Auna. The combined entity should be able to cover 14 out of 17 regions, and could more effectively...

Under pressure of its parent company, SingTel, Optus of Australia will review its organization and be more aggressive vis à vis of Telstra. In spite of local UNO action, the Court in Kos ovo has passed a final judgment to grant Mobitel-Mobikos a GSM license....

Nortel finally announced its 3Q04 results. The turnover is down 7% to $2.18bn (including a decline of 40% in optical sales and of 5% in wireless business). Nortel is reporting a $ 259m loss for the quarter. ZTE ( China ) targets $ 6bn in revenue this...

Motorola is building Mobily s GSM/EDGE network in Saudi Arabia . It will also expand to a national coverage the Saudi Arabia PTC s iDEN network under a new $30m contract ($10m already received in 2004). It has also sold its multi-vendor intelligent optimization...

Nortel will supply optical transport products to upgrade China Customs' storage network infrastructure. Alcatel will expand Turk Telecom ADSL network with 600,000 additional ADSL lines. It gained an optical ethernet-based network order from 3 Swiss power...