Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Telefonica said its 4Q06 net profit fell 12% to €1bn, on revenues of €14bn, up 37%. Full year results were: net profit of €6.2bn, up 41%, on revenues of €18.4bn, up 11%. OIBDA stood at €4.5bn, up 5%, for the quarter. The mobile arm, Moviles, reported...

The world is still waiting China for granting 3G licenses and start deploying networks. Many questions are pending: which technologies?, how many licenses, networks and opertors? Which suppliers? And analysts regularly are waving between pessimism and...

Huawei said it won 28 new UMTS/HSPA contracts in 2006, becoming the world's top UMTS/HSPA solutions provider with a total of 47 UMTS/HSPA contracts to date. It also claims that it has delivered 800,000 new generation EnerG GSM BTSs transceivers.

PT shareholders voted Friday against lifting the ban on any entity owning more than 10% of PT equity. It is a blow to Sonae/ Sonaecom bid to take over PT for about $20bn. They cannot legally hold the 50%+ of PT shares needed to take control, and so openly...

WiMAX is very busy now, and deployments are spreading in various locations and continents. We already reported deployments in Latin America by Telmex and Alcatel-Lucent. More recently, IBM received an order to build a $4m citywide WiMAX network in Brownsville,...

KDDI is the clear winner of subscriber additions since the number portability rule went into effect in Japan. KDDI has increased its subscriber base by 600k new users, when its direct competitors have seen a net reduction. It garnered 67% of the total...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, fiber accounts for 1.4% of new broadband access in Western Europe with over 1m customers, of which 65% in Scandinavia ABI research forecasts that mobile operators would invest $18bn...

Oracle continues its buying spree. Now it is the turn of Hyperion for $3.3bn, after PeopleSoft or Siebel System and more than $20bn already invested in acquisistions during the past three years. Avanex will sell a 90% interest in its French subsidiary...

Cisco and DoCoMo have jointly entered the enterprise cellular-to-WiFi convergence market in Japan with a dualmode system. It is the second similar partnership on cellular-to-WiFi roaming, after the deal with Nokia. Nokia and Motorola command a combined...

Alcatel-Lucent won a $110m contract to build a CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network in the 700 MHz band in Washington DC for public safety. Siemens also claims a share in Telenor Pakistan' s GSM radio network expansion. The combined (Nokia + Siemens)...