Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Synterra (CIS) will invest some $80m in building fibre-optic networks this year. BT is UK' s first VOIP provider. It succeeded in bundling VOIP services with its broadband service. BT has 1.4m VOIP customers, more than triple of rival Orange. AIG Global...

Safaricom (Kenya) is trialling mobile M-Pesa fund transfer with about 65,000 customers. Vodacom (S. Africa) is launching mobile pay-TV services, based on Multichoice satellite TV provider. Dialog (Sri Lanka) plans to invest additional $300m in the next...

The UK had 2.25m unbundled local loops in May, 4.2m wholesale line rentals in use, and 6.2m carrier pre-select numbers. Ukraine had 51m+ mobile subscribers at the end of April. In Philippines, Smart and Piltel (both from PLDT) have a combined subscriber...

Qwest' s CEO Richard Notebaert will retire, pending the company’s selection of a successor, after turning round the company after accounting scandal. Dominique Illien has left Atos Origin and joined Sopra (France), where Pierre Pasquier is leaving.

During its annual meeting (July 24th), some Vodafone shareholders will perhaps present restructuring options able to increase the value to investors by about $76bn. One of the first measures is to spin-off its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless, by issuing...

According to Infonetics, the overall RAN market, including GSM and CDMA markets, fell 6% qoq to $9.5bn in 1Q07, and would grow to $36.8bn in 2010, driven by subscriber demand planned to grow from 2.9bn by the end of this year to over 4bn by 2010. Significant...

The number of mobile GSM customers in CALA (LATAM + The Carribean) grew by 51% to 231m in 1Q07, according to Informa, accounting now for over 70% of total mobile subscribers in the region. Such a growth, in a region where most analysts said ten years...

Infonetics has unveiled its latest Broadband Aggregation Hardware and Subscribers study. Worldwide DSL port shipments were up 4% in 1Q07, while broadband aggregation hardware revenue is slipping 13% to $1.5bn. IP DSLAM ports are increasing their market...

Recent news both from the US and the European markets confirm that being MVNO is not easy. Facts first: in the US, Amp'd Mobile filed for bankruptcy reorganization protection, after Mobile ESPN shut down last year, and Helio is struggling for survival,...

A new report from Forward Concepts gives forecasts by technology and by region through 2011 of handsets, subscribers and chips of all types. The reports highlights that Europe will be the fastest-growing market for WCDMA in 2007, while WEDGE will begin...