Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Profit warning from Motorola. Motorola has issued a profit warning for 1Q07, with a forecast of loss in the quarter due to handset pricing pressure and limited 3G portfolio.

Brazil Telecom has started rolling out quadruple play services in Brazil. Telkom (S. Africa) will buy 75% of Multilinks, Nigeria's pioneer private telecoms operator (PTO) for $200m. Noos/ Numericable and Ten (both in France; Noos is a cable operator and...

Russian mobile operators would invest about $15bn within next five years, according to MTS CEO. Tata Teleservices (India) plans to expand its CDMA 2000 network capacity. Idea Cellular (India) has awarded a $600m-800m outsourcing contract with Big Blue...

Telecom Italia had 32.4m mobile subscribers in Italy by the end of 2006, of which 4.2m are 3G. China Telecom reports it had 224m fixed telephony users at the end of February, of which 30m are broadband. China Mobile has added 4.9m new mobile subscribers...

China Mobile reports strong 4Q06 results with net profit rising 20% to $2.6bn, on revenues of $ , of which more than 23% from data revenues. The results is significant as half of its customer growth (53m in 2006) came from China's lower-spending rural...

Several studies confirm that ALU is doing well in this market. Broadbandtrends reported that ALU has remained in #1 position inQ06 with a 32% market share, while Dell'Oro gives a 42% market share, four times more than its closest competitor. ALU has already...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Gartner, worldwide PC sales would grow by 10.5% in 2007 and reach 256m units while revenues should only increase by 4.5% to $213bn. According to Ovum, ALU is the optical networking market...

Ericsson has announced the acquisition of more than 87% stake in Tandberg TV, waiving its target to get 90%. It decided to buy Tandberg TV as soon as possible. Huawei is opening two R&D centers in France, one in Paris and one located in Lannion, Brittany,...

ALU has received an order from Trento' s Tecnofin Immobiliare, for building an urban Wi-Fi network in Italy. The network will provide 1600 WiFi access points. It announced that it’s continuing an existing alliance with T-Systems, with the convergence...

Taiwanese mobile handsets manufacturers have shipped 122m units in 2006. Huawei said that it has been awarded a 3G project from Telecom Italia. It has also grab a GSM-R order from Algeria Societe Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires (SNTF) for the 220...