Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nortel is still splashing in financial problems. In past few months, Nortel successively lost its CFO, has paid $2.4bn to settle shareholder lawsuits, has claimed it will cut 9% of its workforce, and now announces it will delay annual financial reports...

Telemar (Brazil) has decided to unify its fixed, mobile, internet and entertainment services under the Oi brand The International Telecommunication Union has standardized the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance's HomePNA 3.1. HomePNA uses the telephone...

Club Internet (DT' s ISP subsidiary in France) and ya.com (DT's ISP subsidiary in Spain) are for sale. Following its recent profit warning and because neither Club-Internet, nor ya.com do not succeed in weighting in their local ADSL market, DT has decided...

Mobile number portability would be effective (with a delay below 10 days) in France from May 07. Verizon Wireless has launched mobile TV service using MediaFLO technology for at least $15 per month. Frontline Wireless is a new US company aiming to build...

France currently has 12.7 broadband internet connections (+34%) and added 2.1m LLUs last year. Vietnam reports 27.5m fixed line subscribers (up 74%), of which 1.8m ADSL,

DT announced 2006 net profit down 43% to €3.1bn on revenues up 3% to €61bn. Viacom reports 4Q06 earnings of $ 481m, up 270%, and operating income of $856m, up 28%. Telefonica said its 4Q06 net profit fell 12% to €1bn, on revenues of €14bn, up 37%. Full...

Belgacom could lay off more than 1,000 peopel following fixed, mobile and wholesale units re-organization. PT Telkom (Indonesia) appoints Rinaldi Firmansyah, current CFO, as CEO.

Ericsson has made an hostile €1.2bn bid in cash for Tandberg TV. The offer outbids by about 10% a previous offer from Arris few weeks ago that has already been approved by Tandberg TV' s board. Tandberg TV has accepted to review Ericsson' s offer soon....

Sprint Nextel said its 4Q06 consolidated OIBDA was $3.2bn, up 13%, on revenues of $10.4bn, up 7%. Capex was $2.6bn, up 42%. For the year, revenues were $41bn, up 7%, adjusted OIBDA was $12.7bn, up 12%; and capex was $7bn, up 13%. On the ARPU side, CDMA...

According to Pyramid Research, WiMAX spectrum is far cheaper than 3G spectrum. Numbers can witness of the gap: in the UK, a 30 MHz national 3G license had cost €7.5bn, while a regional WiMAX license for the London area has cost €2.5m. When comparing the...