Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

ALU has completed a health care solution for Sabia-Bioingeniería, Spain, to be used in senior resorts and hospitals. It was also selected by Telefonica del Sur (Chile) to deploy an IP/MPLS solution to be used in triple play services offerings. UTStarcom...

ALU will deploy the first UMTS/HSDPA network in Uruguay for ANTEL. NSN has signed a new supply contract with Heilongjiang Mobile Communications (China Mobile) for GSM Base Stations and Base Station Controllers. Apple ' s iPhone will be manufactured by...

Potential consolidation in India: Spice Telecom, Idea Cellular ann Reliance Telecom are discussing an "operational alliance with a pan-India footprint” . FT has started to review offers for its Dutch Orange unit. T-Mobile is in good position. Wall Street...

Despite protest, DT said it will move forward with a plan to set up three new service units (inside its T-Services initiative) as it moves to pare costs. Chile : a rural WiMAX project will be launched in the southern island of Chiloe. Hong Kong will deploy...

Alfa Telecom (Russia) has asked Turkey' s Cukurova pays its $1.3bn debt to Alfa in Turkcell shares (worth 13.8% stake). America Movil confirms its interest in Northern Brazil region, and is analysing opportunities such as Telemig, Amazonia Cellular or...

Chile : almost 14m mobile GSM subscribers at the end of March, accounting for 80% of the total market. Movistar is the market leader with 42%, followed by Entel with 38% and Claro with 20%. Latin America had 327m mobile users, according to 3G Americas....

VSNL (India) reports record $2.2bn consolidated revenues, up 85%, and EBITDA of $320m, up 49%. PT Telkom (Indonesia) posts net profit of $1.25bn, up 38%, on an income of $5.8bn, up 23%.

Martin Read , LogicaCMG' s CEO, will quit the company, after recent profit warning on financial results. VeriSign CEO, Stratton Sclavos , has resigned for undisclosed reasons

GSA announced that there are now 287 mobile network operators (+40%) in 142 countries deploying EDGE, of which 111 in Europe, 84 in Americas, 50 in MEA and 42 in APAC. 223 networks (+50%) are in commercial use in 113 countries, of which 97 in Europe,...

According to the NPD Group, the US mobile phone market reports steady growth of 12% in 1Q07 with $3bn in value and about 39m units sold. Motorola was performing very well in the quarter, reporting a 35% market share (+6 points), while struggling elsewhere...