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Dell'Oro has released its study on the mobile infra market, including WiMAX. Revenues would show a steady growth over the next five years with a CAGR of about 2.4% to reach $45bn by 2011, from $40bn in 2006. WCDMA will continue to grow to about $27bn...

Vodafone 4Q06 results Vodafone reported solid FY3Q with almost 200m proportionate subscribers (+3.5%), of which 111m in Europe (+3.8%). The number of 3G devices increased to 13.6m, up 22.5% on Sept. 06. ARPU, however, continues to erode in almost all...

Ericsson unveiled 4Q06 results, with 13% growth in profit to €1.1bn, on sales of €6bn, up 18%. The operating margin was unchanged at 23%. Full year results were €19.7bn, up 17% and net income rose 6% to €2.9bn. Growth in revenues was driven by professional...

Fujitsu reports 4Q06 revenues of $10bn, up 7%, operating income of $60m, down 43%, and net income of $10m, down 66%. Sales of optical transmission systems and UNIX servers increased in markets abroad, but mobile base stations sales delined in Japan. The...

Verizon has reported mixed results in 4Q06. It earned $1bn, down 40%, in 4Q06, on revenues of $22.6bn, +26%. For the year, revenues were $88.1bn, up 27%. Revenues were boosted by the integration of MCI long-distance business in 2006, and by strong new...

According to ARCEP, 3Q06 communications services amounted to €10bn, of which 55% in Internet, 45% in telephony. Internet accesses were 14.7m, of which 75% were broadband (11.8m). VOIP accounted for about 15% of subscriptions and 19% of fixed line traffic....

The EMEA mobile phone market is very interesting, with EU almost saturated, reporting a declining 11% growth rate in volume in 2006, but where the high-end market (smartphone and convergence) will drive the growth, and with booming CEMA (Central Europe,...

According to IDC, worldwide mobile phone sales were over the 1bn-mark in 2006, and 4Q06 handsets sales also set a record for a single quarter with almost 295m units sold. Nokia remains the undisputed market leader, ahead of Motorola that gains ground....

According to Juniper Research, EU consumers are wanting customized IPTV content and massively choose telcos and ISPs as provider for their best service quality. Incumbents, CAPs and ISPs have therefore a narrow opportunity window to get customer loyalty...

End of January is a milestone for Telcoflash. We celebrate the third birthday of the newsletter and the second of its web life. Telcoflash was launched in early 2004 and in January 2005 the blog Telcoflashnews was opened in order to make information retrieval...