Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Mexico ended 2006 with 56m mobile users, up 29%. Alice (Telecom Italia France) has 775k ADSL customers in France. It is fourth in the French market, too small and too far from the top 3, it could ba a pray or a predator. Swisscom currently has 30k IPTV...

Telecom Italia reports 2006 results with net income of €3bn, down 6%; revenues of €31.3bn, up 4.5%%; and an EBITDA of €12.9bn, up 3%. Results are slightly better than expected. Debt also is below the €38bn target at €37.3bn. The negative points are margins:...

Michaël Boukobza, Free (Iliad – France) CEO, quits and is replaced by Maxime Lombardini. SEC has charged former Nortel CEO Frank Dunn and three other former executives for accounting fraud.

FT posted 2006 results. 2006 net profit was down 27% to €4.1bn, on revenues of €51.7bn, up 1%. Results are in line with latest forecasts. The drop in profit is due to restructuring and impairment charges, and pricing pressure. The good news is that broadband...

In the past few years, we increasingly heard mobile operators speaking offering fixed broadband services. Such offerings have emerged in the past months, even from large multinational operators, such as Vodafone or Orange. Why? They are facing with declining...

According to Gartner, 991m mobile handsets (+21%) were shipped in 2006. Nokia has delivered 345k units (34%+ market share), followed by Motorola with 209k units just over 21% market share, then Samsung with 116k units or almost 12% market share. Nokia,...

3G Americas and Informa Telecoms & Media announced that the region accounted for about 22% of the 461m new GSM additions in 2006, and reached 310m subscribers at the end of the year. LATAM added 81m new GSM customers to bring the total customer base to...

According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide optical network hardware revenue grew 7% to $3.3bn in 4Q06 and annual sales reached $11.9bn (+11%) in 2006. The Sonet/SDH equipment market still accounted for 64% of the global market, and could yet accounts...

What most recent studies try to explain to telcos is that they would be wise to adopt a new business case to survive in the changing environment. What is at stake? Facing high voice prices, consumers and enterprise are turning to alternative solutions,...

The ICT (Information Communications and Telecom) market would increase by almost 3% to €668bn in Europe in 2007. Main drivers for the growth would be IT services, software applications and broadband data services. The research firm also predicts a growth...