Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

ALU and Casema ( Cable operator in Holland) have successfully trialled Universal 802.16e WiMAX. Nortel has deployed WiMAX technology for Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan). EDX Wireless will provide OTE (Greece) with network planning tool to design its 3.5 GHz...

Nokia has signed a $2.5bn order from China Postell ( a large Chinese retailer with over 30% mobile phone market share) for handsets. Sony Ericsson won two deals in China; one to sell $521m worth of handsets to Shenzen Telling, and another for 5m handsets...

Joost, the web TV service, mixing peer-to-peer and video on demand, has raised $45m from five investors including Viacom, CBS. It can now display some 150 free TV programs, including Paramount, MTV, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, TV5....

Neuf Cegetel (France) has officially bought DT' s French unit Club-Internet for about €450m, and gained some 570k ADSL users. Free-hotspot.com and Teleprofi are partnering for building some 2000 new free hotspots in Germany by the end of 2007. Teleprofi...

MobiFone (Vietnam) is planning an IPO in early 2008. Warid Telecom has launched commercial mobile services in Bangladesh, covering 70% of the population. ROK has announced the first VOD mobile TV service over a GPRS network. ROK TV is currently being...

T-Mobile USA gained 980,000 new customers in 1Q07, 75% were contract customers. It had more than 26m customers at the end of March. T-Com lost 588k customers in fixed line customers, but added 572k broadband lines in 1Q07. According to Arcep, France currently...

T-Mobile USA reported 1Q07 net profit of $315m, up 31%. Revenues were up to $4bn, up 18%. Churn is down 0.2 point to 1.9%, and ARPU was $52. DT earned €459m in the quarter, down 58%, on revenues of €15.5bn, up 4%. Singtel (Singapore) posts FY net profit...

Mark Schweitzer ( Sprint Nextel) will step down from his post as CMO. Tim Kelly will replace him. Nortel has appointed Alvio Barrios as the new president for the CALA region.

Cisco announced solid FY3Q07 results. Net income went at $1.9bn (+36%), on revenues of $8.9bn, up 22%, including $752m from Scientific-Atlanta. Results are beating forecasts. The Cisco management is optimist on continued solid growth in coming months:...

A few set of market information released this week: According to DDM-France, there were 150 VOD services currently launched in Europe. Almost 2/3 are offered via Internet, and 1/3 by IPTV over ADSL. 95% of those services are charged. France offers 20...