Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Pakistan : 4.6m fixed line subscribers, of which 1.6 m wireless local loop users. Celtel Uganda currently has 1.5m mobile users. India added 8.3m new mobile subscribers in November. PLDT (Philippines) has over 30m (+6%) mobile customers at the end of...

T-Mobile plans to invest more than $10bn in three years (2007-2009) in 2G and 3G technologies in the US. This would impact profit margins in the US division but also in the parent company DT.

Motorola announced 1600 layoffs done in 4Q07. LG USA has appointed Jeff Hwang as president. ALU announced the appointment of Vivek Mohan as President of the company’s business in India, and the appointment of Rémi Thomas as Vice President, Investor Relations....

My best wishes for all of you and your family. 2008 will be great. Warmest Regards Jean ARNAL Telcoflash

According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide telecom carrier capex grew by 7% in 2007 to $251bn, driven by mobile and broadband demand. The research firm forecasts that worldwide capex will plateau in 2009 and begin declining in 2010. In developed...

8 countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and the UK) account for 70% of the total European subscribers. The largest country by subscriber is Germany with over 89m (+12%) users and a penetration rate of 108%. Italy is just behind...

The 3G subscriber base reached 68m in Europe at the end of September. This is almost 10% penetration, and net additions in the quarter totaled over 9m. Growth has been almost 86%, versus a poor 8% growth in pure 2G connections to almost 631m. As a result,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, the French PMR market was worth €300m in 2006. Infonetics Research forecasts that femtocell shipments would generate $630m revenues in 2010. According to In-Stat, there were 5.4m BPL...

Qualcomm has purchased the noise- reduction technology of SoftMax to improve the audio and voice capabilities of its chips. Turin Networks will buy Carrier Access for about $93m in cash. Arris buys C-Cor: confirmed and approved by shareholders of both...

Coppercom is out: it announced it will discontinue its product lines sales, but will still support customers. Gilat has been chosen by Vivo (Brazil) for providing satellite-based solution in LATAM. Pace Micro will buy Philips' set top box solutions business....