Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

TOT (Thailand) has signed agreements to install WiFi equipment in PTT petrol stations. 200 branches nationwide will be equipped. Cable operator consolidation in Belgium: 8 cable Walloon companies will be bought by ALE and Brutele cable operators for about...

Telecom Argentina said it has launched a 3G service in Buenos Aires. M1 (Singapore) has launched its new mobile email service working over its GPRS network and GPRS-enabled handsets. Telenor has increased to 30% (+3.3%) its voting stake in Vimpelcom (Russia)....

Vodafone Portugal had 4.75m mobile customers at the end of March. Romania had 1.75m broadband internet connections (+136%) as of Dec. 2006. Swisscom ended March with 4.7m mobile customers, of which over 60% were contract subscribers.

Bouygues Telecom (France) reports 1Q07 revenues of €1.2bn, up 5%. SFR (France) reported 1Q07 sales down 2% to €2.1bn, and EBITDA down 3.5% to €643m.

ALU reports 1Q07 adjusted revenues down 8% proforma to €3.88bn, a gross profit of €1.3bn down 24%, and an operating loss of €244m vs profit of €246m. Net income amounted to €199m. In the Carrier segment, revenues (€2.8bn) were down 10%, due to the mobile...

DT earned €459m in the quarter, down 58%, on revenues of €15.5bn, up 4%. The results are mixed; sales are slightly ahead of forecast in spite of strong demand in mobile, while profit is far less than the €773m expected. But DT is just one more in a growing...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Motorola, the smartphone would compete with PCs. More and more micro-applications are available for intelligent, hyper-connected mobile devices, mimicking PC evolution in the 80s. According...

Intel has agreed to invest $15m in Jajah. Microsoft will sell over $1.3bn worth of software to PC maker Lenovo. IBM will invest over $1bn in cutting power consumption in its data centers. Ecology is everywhere.

Siemens has announced its 100millionth Gigaset cordless handset in 12 years. Tellabs and NTELOS are partnering on GPON solutions. Juniper could be working on a new single chassis core router. Photop Technologies (start-up in China) has received a $13.5m...

Motorola is rumored launching next week a new wave of mobile handsets with advanced video capabilities. Will it overcome the current lack of 3G-enabled handsets in its portfolio? Nokia has launched a new feature: energy saving alert. When the battery...