Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

ZTE, ALU, Huawei and Fujitsu have been awarded a CDMA contract globally worth $1.5bn. ZTE is reportedly given half this contract. Ericsson will expand Siminn' s WCDMA/HSPA network in Iceland. It is helping StarCell (Cambodia) in combining a GSM base station...

DT plans to re-organize its call centers over a 2-year period. It wants to reduce their number to 24 (from 63) in Germany, and move 8,000 workers on a total of 18,000. Elsewhere, It said it is interested in acquiring a 15% holding in Serbia's telecom...

JasTel Network (Thailand, an affiliate of Jasmine), plans to invest $30m to deploy an international undersea cable link. China Telecom buys the stake held by China Unicom in Unicom-BREW, a JV between China Unicom and Qualcomm. DTAC (Thailand) will upgrade...

PCCW reports revenues of $1.5bn, down 2%, but mobile revenues growing 27% to $110m. EBITDA fell 5% to $440m. China Telecom announced lower-than-expected results, with a 1H08 net income of $1.8bn, down 8%, on revenues of $13.2bn, up 1%. Its fixed business...

ZTE reported unaudited 1H08 results. As reported sales amounted to $2.9bn (+30%), of which $1bn (-2%) in China and $1.9bn (+59%) in export. Sales grew 42% in Asia to $819m, 107% in Africa to $556m and 49% in other regions to $461m. Sales were made of...

EU may legislate further and charge mobile operators that charge for voice calls by the minute rather than seconds. New Zealand has invited applications for its $240m Broadband Investment Fund. The deadline for the applications will be on Sept. 30. Iran...

Tellabs has named Roger J. Heinz to the position of executive VP of sales and services, effective Sept. 15. Naguib Sawiris is stepping down as Mobinil Chairman (Egypt), replaced by Alex Shalaby . Fran Barton is retiring as CFO from UTStarcom.

According to Strategy Analytics, there were 297m units shipped in 2Q08, up 15%. So, it is a quite healthy market, contrasting with pessimistic announcements. Growth rate in 2Q08 was higher than any growth rate during 2007. Nokia continues to maintain...

Dell'Oro reported 1Q ranking for mobile infrastructure vendors. The main information from the report is that traditional vendors are all loosing ground to Chinese vendors. Ericsson, NSN, ALU, Nortel and Motorola lost 0.3 to 2.1 points market share, while...

In fact, it is not really new. For the past decade, many analysts forecast a strong increase in mobile data services. Around 2000, some predicted that MNO would have 25% of their revenues in data services in the next three years...... The situation is...