Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Onse Telecom (S. Korea) plans to add mobile services to its fixed services and add to increase competition there. It would be the first MVNO in S. Korea. Telkomsel (Indonesia) plans to raise $316m in 2008 via bonds, notes and loans, and increase its capex...

China : the internet users number reached 210m and could overtake the US this year. China Telecom added 7.3m broadband customers in 2007 and ended 2007 with 220.3m customers (copper and WLL), down from 223m in 12/06. China Netcom lost 4.1m fixed line...

Idea Cellular (India) reports 4Q07 net profit of $161m, up 112%, on revenues of $436m, up 49%. Idea Cellular operates in 11circles (out of 23) in India. Maroc Telecom said its consolidated revenues were $3.6bn in 2007, up 22%, of which $2.5bn in mobile....

Tellabs will cut 225 jobs to return to profitability. Cosmote Romania has appointed Stefanos Theocharopoulos as CEO Telkom Kenya will lay off half of its staff, as part of a plan to help returning to profitability. Keith Orr has been named new Board member...

Point Topic has released its 3Q07 statistics. Briefly, the worldwide total of broadband users was 329m, up 25%, while broadband penetration was 5.7% (up 1.1 point). In fact, the total number of subscriber net additions has steadily decreased in 2007 from...

The region is one of the fastest growing region and recorded over 32m mobile user additions in 3Q07. African countries are driving the growth. The list of top 10 MNOs is not evolving a lot, but inside ranking is moving. Vodacom (S. Africa) leads the pack...

The market is booming with a 100% growth rate in 2007 to about €31m. Many platforms, such as Free, Orange, Canalplay, TF1 Vision, Vodeo, or M6Vision, .., already provide content and play a competitive game. Some are offering packages for video on demand...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, cable TV operators are relying on cable modem services to generate new revenue streams, bundling video and data services. Worldwide, there were some 408m cable TV households (+10%),...

Oracle has opened once again its purse: $8.5bn to buy BEA Systems. Globally, Oracle has spent over $27bn for external growth. Sun will acquire open source giant MySQL for $1bn. Apple has sold 4m iPhones in 2007. It announced a free software upgrade for...

ALU has opened a R&D center in Taiwan to test future WiMAX applications and test interoperability. It has received U.S. Government’s Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) approval on two metro optical products.