Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Altimo (Russia) is mulling the acquisition of 20%-25% stake in Indonesia's Excelcomindo. Google is rumored to be planning to enter the UK mobile market with bidding for a slice of the 900 MHz spectrum. Another rumor circulate on Google: it could invest...

FT targets to form a JV, called HNSA for Home Network Software Applications, with its Livebox makers (Thomson and Sagem/Safran), to harmonize interfaces ans applications between various home entertainment devices. FT would hold 60% and Thomson and Sagem...

TeliaSonera and Telenor are in talks with Apple over the sale of iPhone in Scandinavia. DoCoMo opens its fourth foreign office in Vietnam, after China (Beijing and Shanghai) and Singapore. Thailand: CAT Telecom has refused to sell its 42% stake in Thai...

Bangladesh-based Grameenphone has crossed the 15m mobile phone subscriber mark. The total number of telephone subscribers in India has reached 241m at the end of August, up 4%. Pakistan added 2.4m new subscribers in August, bringing its total of over...

Portugal Telecom has appointed Zeinal Bava, as CEO of PT Portugal and CEO of PT Comunicacoes. Nokia' s top legal office, Carl Belding died last week in an accident.

It is another dark period for ALU, announcing a new profit warning (the third in the year) and sending down annual revenue forecast. First facts: ALU expects now flat 2007 revenue (vs mid-single digits growth) and admitted that profitability is likely...

Europe will also have iPhone. Apple announced that O2 will resell the device in the UK, Orange in France and DT in Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Hungary and Croatia. The launch would be made in early November, but conditions are not yet known. Will...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Analysys, average revenue leakage among global telecom operators increased 1.5 point to 13.6% in 2006, and average fraud losses have grown 1.6 points in 2007 to 4.5% of revenues. According...

Nokia has agreed to buy mobile advertising firm Enpocket (USA). Nokia pursues its transformation into a multimedia service provider. ALU is acquiring Thompson Advisory Group (TAG), a specialist in the procurement of telecom services, in the USA. Cisco...

Huawei is turning to WiMAX and heavily invests in R&D. ECI Telecom introduces AccessWave, a compact, optical edge and access networking platform. In a separate news, It should be negotiating selling all (or at least three) of its factories to global contract-manufacturing...