Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

TelstraClear will operate as MVNO on New Zealand incumbent' s network. Vimpelcom (Russia) bought Tele2 local unit CSK for $232m. Zimbabwe cancels Orascom Telecom' s mobile license because of infringement of foreign ownership limit regulations. Jordan...

Singtel' regional subscriber base rose to 136m at end-June. Kenya' s mobile customer base reached over 10m at end-June, and penetration now stands at 29%. Safaricom holds almost 77% of the market, followed by Kencell. Personal (Argentina) ended 2Q07 with...

DT reported a 40% drop in 2Q07 net income, on revenues up 3% to €15.6bn. Revenues were made of €5.7bn (-7.5%) in fixed telephony, hit by a loss of 516k customers in fixed telephony, partially offset by a gain of 448k broadband users. T-Mobile reported...

Qwest has named Edward Mueller to replace retiring chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert. Lou Lupin has resigned his position as Qualcomm executive vice president and general counsel, and will be temporally be replaced by Carol Lam. DT is planning cutting...

Once again the market was healthy and reached about 265m units shipped in the quarter (+11%). The table below collects the vendor figures and their related market shares. Vendor 2Q07 Units shipped (in millions) 2Q07 Market share NOKIA 100.8 38% SAMSUNG...

Motorola reports a loss in 2Q07 of $38m on sales of $8.7bn. If the results in the Home and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions businesses are solid (+9% and +42% respectively), the result in the Mobile Devices division is particularly...

DT announced 1H07 revenues of €31bn, up .5%, and adjusted EBITDA of €9.6bn, down 2%. Its 2Q07 net profit was down 40% to €608m on sales of €15.6, up 3%. T-Mobile USA 181 posts strong growth. 2Q07 revenues grew 13% to $4.8bn, and net income jumped 5°%...

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A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the Bluetooth market had another successful year in 2006 that could continue in 2007 (+34%). However, market growth for Bluetooth products is beginning to slow. According to ABI...

ECI Telecom did not receive any alternative takeover bids, and a group of private equity suitors led by Swarth Investments, will normally pay $1.2bn for its acquisition. Nortel Networks said it has begun talks with potential takeover targets, looking...