News update 06/08/07

Dear Reader,
I am back. Several news have been posted on the blog. Links to info are below.
Good week and best regards.
JA

• Telefonica 1H07 results (06/08/2007 catégorie: Top stories)
  
  Telefonica posts good results: revenues rose 6.5% to €14.8bn, while net profit doubles to €1.4bn in 2Q07. It reported revenues of €27.8bn, up 11%, and net income of €3.8bn, up 66%, in 1H07. OIBDA rose 22% to €11bn and its operating profit jumped over 45% to €6.5bn. Latin America reported 1H07 revenues of almost ...
• Market researches - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Market corner)
  
  A few set of market information released this week: EU will name and shame mobile operators who fail to adopt the new mobile roaming caps by the end of July. According to In-Stat, Digital Rights Management (DRM) is not dead, and will grow as digital content expands. Infonetics forecasts ...
• Global vendor strategies - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Vendor - Strategies & organisation)
  
  Cisco invest $150m in VMware, a leader in virtualization. Intel had also invested in VMware in July. VMware is a unit of EMC. Steria (France) plans to bid for Xansa in a €700m deal. HP is rumored to buy Bull (France) for €700m. Harmonic announced that it will acquire Rhozet for $16m, to expand its presence in the online and ...
• Fixed vendor strategies - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Vendor - fixed networks)
  
  ALU and Aruba are teaming to target the market for enterprise mobility. It is an answer to a similar team between Nortel and Microsoft. Alvarion and KDDI are collaborating to bridge the digital divide in Cambodia and Vietnam with wireless broadband solutions. ...
• Mobile vendor strategies - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Vendor- mobile networks)
  
  ALU introduces new CDMA/EV-DO base station designed to add capacity and fill in coverage gaps ...
• Fixed orders - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Vendor- contracts (fixed))
  
  ZTE has entered into a master purchase agreement with Sprint Nextel to supply WiMAX equipment. ALU: Guangdong Telecom (China Telecom) has selected ALU for its IP service routers. ALU will provide microwave equipment to Lattelecom. It has also been selected by France CitéVision for supplying its GPON fiber access solution, and by ...
• Mobile orders - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Vendor- contracts (mobile))
  
  Huawei will supply install 200 base-stations by November 2007 in a deal worth $50m with Uganda Telecom. It has been awarded a $275m contract by Kalimat Telecom (Iraq) to deploy a CDMA network, and has been selected by PTK Centertel to supply a 3G network. Ericsson wins an IMS contract with Vodafone Germany. ...
• Vendor results - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Vendor - results)
  
  Tellabs reported 2Q07 profit of $30m, down 45%, on revenues declining 4% to $535m. Buyout rumors circulate with a possible bid from NSN with a $7bn offer. ...
• Global operator strategies - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Operator- Strategies & Organization)
  
  KPN plans bidding for Getronics NV, a Dutch IT services concern, and would pay over €700m for the deal. Verizon Wireless buys Rural Cellular (USA), one of the nation’s largest rural carriers, for $2.7bn. Altimo and Ipoc signed peace agreement on MegaFon (Russia). Altimo (Alfa Group) will held 25.1% of MegaFon stake, while Ipoc ...
• Fixed operator strateies - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Operator- fixed networks)
  
  Malaysia will delay the launch of WiMAX services to mid of 2008 in order to give time to operators to set up a consortium to share infrastructure and equipment costs for a quick and easy launch. We know now the name of BTC (Bulgaria)' s buyer. It is AIG Capital Partners, an equity firm that paid $1.7bn for a 65% majority stake. Chunghwa ...
• Mobile operator strategies - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Operator- mobile networks)
  
  Iliad/ Free (France) is candidate to buy the fourth 3G license in France. Tiscali will become MVNO in Italy, using TI network. M2 Telecom (Australia) has signed a MVNO deal with Vodafone NZ to offer mobile services in NZ. Vivo (Brazil) is believed to be in talks for buying smaller rivals Telemig Celular and Tele Norte (both in Brazil), ...
• Subscriber figures - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Operator- subscribers)
  
  M6 Mobile (MVNO in France) has reached 1m subscribers, a year before the estimated date. It now aims at 1.5m users by 2008-end. Iusacell (Mexico) had 3.9m mobile subscribers at June-end. LG Telecom (S. Korea) had 7.5m mobile users at June-end. Verizon Communications said its high-speed Internet customers increased to 7.7m connections, ...
• Operator results - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: Operator - results)
  
  Sonaecom (Portugal) reports a 1H07 net loss of €4.8m on revenues up 4.4% to €428m. EBITDA fell by 6.2% to €76m. Telefonica posts good results: revenues rose 6.5% to €14.8bn, while net profit doubles to €1.4bn in 2Q07. It reported revenues of €27.8bn, up 11%, and net income of €3.8bn, up 66%, in 1H07. ...
• People - 06/08/07 (06/08/2007 catégorie: People)
  
  Motorola has elected Greg Brown, current president and COO, and Anthony J. Vinciquerra, president and CEO of Fox Networks Group, to its Board of Directors. O2 Germany cuts 700 jobs in the country, as part of new corporate structure and organization. Verizon promotes Dick Lynch, VZW ' CTO, as CTO for Verizon Communications. Dan Moloney ...