Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

China' s GDP grew over 11% in 1Q07. Berlusconi's media group Mediaset in Italy may enter Telecom Italia bid, without taking control. Telekom (Malaysia) will pay $113m for an additional 7.4% in Excelcomindo (Indonesia) and bring its stake to 67%. Telekom...

Vivendi (France) would like to take full control of its subsidiary SFR (France), in which Vodafone has 44%. Meditel (Morocco) and Vivatel (Bulgaria) are launching HSDPA services. NetCom has also launched HSDPA upgrade in Norway. BT Italia will becone...

Colombia ' s mobile phone lines rise to 28m. Clearwire had 258,000 customers at the end of March 07. SFR (France) has 140,000 mobile TV users. Cosmote Romania has added 1m new mobile subscribers in four months. It nos has 2m subscribers. Mobistar (Belgium)...

Google posts stellar results. Earnings were $1bn, up 69%, and record revenues of $3.7bn, +63%. Batelco (Bahrain) reported its 1Q07 net profits reached $66m, up 7%, on revenues of $176m, up 26%. 2006 earnings were $237m, up 4.4%, while revenues grew 11%...

H. von Pierer, Siemens ' chairman is stepping down. Vivendi names Philippe Capron as new CFO.

FMC is announced as a big market; but execution remains essential. Take the BT example. BT has just 40k subscribers to its BT Fusion FMC offer after 18 months of operation. It is rather disappointing. The system is a dualmode GSM/ Bluetooth service, based...

NA is certainly the only region in the world where GSM is not the dominant technology. With about 252m mobile users at the end of 2006, NA is the least mobile-equiped region, overtaken by MEA (Middle East +Africa), CALA, CEI, EU and APAC. The home-grown...

Another hurdle has been cleared when the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee voted in favor of roaming caps to cut fees by about 70% . Two steps remain before the regulation comes into force in about July. First the European...

According to Gartner, almost 63m PCs (+9%) were shipped in 1Q07. HO is in pole position with 11m units shipped (+29%), ahead of Dell with 8.6m (-8%), then Acer with 4.3m units (+46%) and Lenovo with 3.9m (+16%). Toshiba is fifth with 2.5m units shipped...

Over the past six months, hundreds of thousands of honeybees died in the USA and Europe, threatening both honey production, and fruit and vegetable pollination. Scientists have discovered that cell phone radiation was interfering with their internal navigation...