Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Free/ Iliad (France) had 2.24m ADSL subscribers at the end of 2006. Swisscom had 1.4m ADSL subscribers at the end of 2006, up 21%. Poland is one of the most competitie mobile markets with three operators at about the same level: 33% each for Orange Poland...

Iliad (France) posts very good 2006 results, with €124m in net earnings, up 80%, on revenues of €950m, up 31%. Let me remember that its CEO will quit the company during the summer. Swisscom filed 4Q06 net profit of $281m, down 8%. Its ful-year net earnings...

Juniper loses two more executives: CFO Robert Dykes and Enterprise business' head Robert Sturgeon.

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the shipments of Consumer Electronics devices would jump to 3bn in 2010, from 2.1bn last year. In-Stat forecasts that worldwide digital cable set top box unit shipments have increased...

The Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, will post 1800 training documents on the web, free of charge. The 'OpenCourseWare' programm already provides hundreds of courses for the past three years.

HP is considering selling Linux OS-equipped PCs. Samsung is introducing a 8 Go memory chip for mobile handsets. Nokia expects India will be its second-largest market by volume by 2010. LG has started producing mobile handsets in Iran.

Contracts Fixed networks: ALU has won the $240m deal to build the Nepad Broadband Infrastructure Network (NBIN) or ex EASSy system. Mobile networks : Siemens has been awarded by Mali-based operator Sotelma a contract for expanding its countrywide GSM...

Swisscom has launched a €3.7bn friendly bid for Fastweb (Italy). Essar Group (India) asked $ 7.5bn to exit Hutch Essar JV, but finally has found an agreement on Hutch Essar management with Vodafone. Vodafone CEO will become vice-Chairman while Essar will...

Singtel (Singapore) will apply for national long distance (NLD) and international long distance (ILD) telephony licenses in India. Alice (Telecom Italia France) and Canal+ are launching national triple play coverage

Vietnam would launch 3G and WiMAX services this year. Smart (Philippines) plans to shortly provide mobile TV services. Analysts feel that it is risky, and that the company has taken a huge gamble. Euskatel (Spain) has not renewed its partnership with...