Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Bad time for Motorola. Motorola revised its 1Q07 and 2007 guidance this week. What is to blame is lower than anticipated sales and operating earnings at the company's Mobile Devices business, while the Network & Enterprise and Connected Home Solutions...

Research firm IDATE, commissioned by the Brussels Round Table of EU, has published a strategic report, Telecoms in Europe 2015, on the present state and possible futures for the European Telecom industry. Three possible scenarii are studied, according...

Point Topic has unveiled most recent statistics on broadband penetration in 4Q06. The number of broadband subscriptions worldwide has now passed 281m, but growth was not even across continents. By growth rate, Tier 1 segment (above 100% rate) is made...

It was forecast, now it is sure. Until 2005, PHS was a bright star in the Chinese telecom landscape, successfully bitting in the copper fixed line market. The number of subscribers jumped to over 90m, and constitute the bulk of fixed-line operator growth....

A few set of market information released this week: According to Point Topic, worldwide broadband subscriber number rose to 281m. CDG (CDMA Development Group) said that the number of CDMA 2000 subscribers in S. Asia, has doubled to 45m at the end of 2006....

ALU would have been granted a call option on the GSM network assets of Nortel Networks. ALU would have got the right of first refusal (RoFR) in case Nortel offers to sell its GSM assets. Nortel and Corning have joined their optical expertise to develop...

UDcast (France) has introduced statistical multiplexing to optimize DVB-H Mobile-TV transmission. Stat mux allows to gain between 30% and 40% efficiency on a given transmission channel, and allows to send more video services with the same quality or to...

ZTE has secured a deal with Hubei Telecom to provide IPTV quipment. Telcordia has been granted an order from Pakistan MNP Database (PMD), to manage number portability.

Terayon reports preliminary financial 4Q06 results. 4Q06 revenues were $18m, down 42%, and 2006 revenues were $76m, down 16%. 4Q06 net loss was $5m, deeper than $3 in 4Q05, while 2006 loss was $3m, narrower than $27m in 2005. Italtel (Italy) announced...

China GDP growth is expected to slightly slow to 7-8% between 2011 and 2015, from 9-10% in the 07-10 period. Versatel Germany plans for an IPO durinf 1H07. Orascom always hope a deal with Telecom Italia on Brazil Telecom purchase. Lebanon will have a...