Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola is deploying a TETRA network at Barcelona airport (Spain)

ATT withdrew the ‘Cingular’ brand and logo with a new ATT one. Alltel (US), the fifth domestic mobile operators, has been bought for $27bn by equity firm TPG and bank Goldman Sachs. Swisscom will reorganize its structure into three main divisions: Private...

Vietnam plans launching a Vinasat satellite early in 2008. The selection of the launcher will be made in Nov.07. Shortfall: Bahrain' s Batelco found problems when it tried a NGN network upgrade. The network went down in parts of the capital city, Manama....

Econet (Zimbabwe) plans to launch 3G pilots by the end of this month. High-speed Internet access will be the first 3G application. Vodafone launches two new ZTE-manufactured, own-branded, low-end handsets at $25 and $45 targeting emerging markets (in...

Portugal: about 2.1m broadband subscribers by the end of March 2007, of which 946k are ADSL, 558k are cable and 573k are 3G cellular. Portugal has about 12.4m mobile subscribers (+7%) US: the mobile market is dominated by ATT with 25% market share, followed...

Klaus Kleinfeld, Siemens COO, out, Peter Lösher, 49, has been named to take the helm at Siemens from July 07.

Telefonica announced 1Q07 net income up almost 8% to €1.26bn, on revenues up 15% to €13.7bn. Revenues are coming 37% from Spain, 34% from Latam and 27% from Rest of Europe. Telefonica now has 206m customers in Europe and Latin America, of which 149m are...

BT said its 1Q07 revenues were €7.8bn, up 3%, and FY07 revenues were €29.8bn. Net income rose to €705m , up 10%, in the quarter, and to €2.1bn, up 84%, in its fiscal year. Its traditional telecom business declined by 3% but broadband revenues were up...

According to Forrester, the paid video download market is a dead end. It will peak in 2007, generating $279m in revenue, up 184%, then die. It is true for PC and broadband fixed lines, but can be extended to mobile video downloads as well. The Forrester...

A new report, from Ovum-RHK, said that NA mobile capex continued to go up by 2% in the quarter while NA wireline capex was down 9%. In the same period, NA wireline revenues declined 2% to $42.7bn and NA mobile revenues went up 11% to $35.4bn. What is...