Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nortel and Colubris Networks have been selected to provide end-to-end broadband wireless equipment to 4G Metro, the operator for he Trinity Railway Express (TRE), Dallas, TX. Samsung will supply $370m worth of 3G handsets and network equipment to PT Mobile...

ALU confirms 2007 growth outlook. In spite of a forecast poor 1Q07 quarter, Pat Russo believes in a 5% growth rate in 2007 revenues.

BBC and YouTube have signed a deal. News and entertainment feeds from BBC will be displayed on YouTube video sharing web site. Qtel (Qatar) has agreed to pay a record $3.7bn price (a premium of about 40%) for 51% stake in Kuwaiti cellular carrier National...

Taiwan Television Enterprise and China Network Systems (both in Taiwan) will trial Qualcomm' s MediaFLO in Taipei. IDA (Singapore regulator) has pre-qualified 12 bidders for its ultra-high-speed national broadband infrastructure project NG-NBN. Telmex...

Sprint Nextel is believed to be late in deploying its ambitious WiMAX network to be opened in 2008. China Mobile does not abandon EDGE. It is upgrading its GSM network to EDGE in major regions.

France has over 4m LLU (unbundled local loop). 18% of French households are broadband, against an European average of 15%. Argentina' INDEC reports a 42% growth of the number of mobile lines in service to 32.4m at end-January 07. Philippines: mobile penetration...

Telkom Austria reports 2006 revenues of €4.8bn, up 9%, operating income of €772m, up 25%, EBITDA of €1.9bn, up 8.4%, and net income of €562m, up 37%. Capex grew 59% to €997m, including €320m for the 3G license in Serbia. France Telecom reports 2006 net...

Jim Balsillie, RIM' s CEO, and Mike Lazaridis, RIM's co CEO, will resign following an internal probe on improper accounting stock-options. Jim, however, will remain on the board. William E. Kennard resigned from Sprint Nextel' s Board of directors, effective...

It is not a joke, but it is funny. Sayo Isaac Daniel proposes built-in GPS in your shoes for ......$350. After pets (last week), and shoes now, why not snails?

DT announced 2006 net profit down 43% to €3.1bn on revenues up 3% to €61bn. EBITDA fell 6% to € 19.4bn, in line with DT' s forecasts. Fixed telephony revenues amounted to €21bn, down 5%, while mobile revenues were up 10% to €31bn. T-Mobile USA reported...