Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Ireland has passed 500k broadband user mark, up 19% in 4Q06. Vodafone Turkey currently has 13.8m mobile users.

China Unicom posted 2006 net profit down 24% to €360m, on revenues of €9.1bn, up 8%.

TPSA (Poland) has named Piotrowska-Oliwa new CEO of Centertel (its mobile unit).

TPSA (Poland) has named Piotrowska-Oliwa new CEO of Centertel (its mobile unit).

Mobile Operator Country Subscriber base TIM Italy 32.4m Turkcell Turkey 32m T-Mobile Germany 31.5m Vodafone D2 Germany 30m Vodafone Omnitel Italy 26m Orange France 22.5m Kyivstar Ukraine 21m Telefonica Moviles Spain 21m UMC Ukraine 19.5m O2 UK UK 19m...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Buongiorno and M:Metrics, mobile content consumption (except SMS and MMS) tends to be similar in Europe and NA. The Economist Intelligence Unit reports that 80% of industry executives believe...

3Com has received the green light from Chinese authorities to purchase the missing 50% stake of its JV with Huawei. Cisco to offer $57 per share for WebEx. Sonus bought Zynetics for $13m. Motorola announced investments in GoTV Networks.

ALU unveils the world’s first CMOS silicon-based tunable optical equalizer, opening the door to new optical networking architectures. Siemens has decided to use mobile WiMAX Wave chips from Sequans. NEC America has officially launched its Mobile WiMAX...

Sony Ericsson will outsource low-cost GSM handset development and manufacturing to Sagem (France) under an OEM agreement. Nokia is building a mobile phone factory in Romania for handsets to be sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Qualcomm announced...

Redline will supply WiMAX equipment for the national WiMAX deployment of STC in Saudi Arabia. UTStarcom would get two new IPTV deals, including with Reliance in India. Microsoft has sold 20m Vista licenses in one month. Extreme Networks will supply the...