Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Unusual presentation for company results, but there were too many companies in the past month to report their financial performance. So I tried to sum up main indicators in a short sentence for each company. Sprint Nextel reported a net loss of $344m...

Unusual presentation for company results, but there were too many companies in the past month to report their financial performance. So I tried to sum up main indicators in a short sentence for each company. ALU reported 2Q08 results in line with forecasts:...

A few set of market information released this week: France: the French telecom services market reached €10.6bn (+4%) in 1Q08; the number of phone subscriptions increasing to 40m, of which almost 12m for VOIP (+30%); 16.3m broadband connections, of which...

A few set of market information released this week: USA: champion of mobile internet subscribers according to Nielsen, with 40m users or 15.6% penetration. The UK and Italy followed with respectively 12.9% and 11.9%. According to Point Topic, there were...

France has 11.3m mobile internet users (penetration of around 20%). Spain added 540K new mobile subscribers in 1H08 to bring its base to 51m. Portugal has 1.9m mobile broadband subscribers and 1.6m fixed internet users. MTS (Russia) had 87m mobile users...

Apple has launched its App Store alongside the worldwide launch of the iPhone 3G. It is on track to sell some 4.5m iPhones worldwide in 3Q08. Convergys has agreed to buy rival Intervoice for $355m. Pirelli will take a 30% stake in photonic expert CyOptics....

ALU is providing WiMAX Rev-e network for the University of Ireland and for VTEL in Georgia. It will deploy packet-optical transport technology for IP network transformation in Shanghai for China Mobile. It has been selected by Chilean Gtd Manquehue to...

BT announces a plan to invest £1.5bn in fiber-based broadband deployment to reach 10m households by 2012. It has bought online business directory Ufindus for £20m, and internet-phone software developer Ribbit for $55m. Vodafone is said to be interested...

Turk Telecom (Turkey) is interested in Kyrgyztelecom and may bid in association with its parent company Oger Telecom. Turkcell (Turkey) will sell iPhone 3G later this year. MTN (S. Africa) and Reliance (India) have decided to end merger talks. Starcomms...

Vimpelcom/ Altimo have bought a 90% stake in the Cambodian operator Sotelco. China Telecom plans a $4bn CDMA network expansion (network it will take over from China Unicom). China Unicom plans 3G capex of $14.6bn for the period 2009-2010. Some additional...