Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Digicel, a pan-Caribbean operator, has extended services to Guyana. Orange will offer its customers a technology allowing to control TV through their mobile handsets. Fastweb (Italy) plans to bid for a WiMAX licence and launch MVNO operations this year....

China Mobile reports the addition of 4.9m new mobile subscribers in January, bringing its total subscriber base to 306m. China Telecom aded 250k new fixed subscribers in january, raising its total to 223.3m, of which 29.1m are broadband. China had 368m...

Telefonica O2 Czech posted a 28% rise in 2006 earnings to €372m, up 28%. TDC (Denmark) said its 4Q06 earnings dropped 71% to €170m, on sales of €1.6bn, almost flat. EBITDA was up 8% to €500m. Cosmote (Greece) reported 4Q06 revenues of €752m, up 49%, and...

IBM France has named Daniel Chaffraix as its new CEO. Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Vivek Mohan as Vice President - Services Business Group, South Asia, and A Sethuraman as Chief Marketing Officer, South Asia. Ravi Ailawadhi would now act as Vice President...

Let me recall facts: in 03/2005 Teliasonera signed a deal to buy a stake in Turkcell from Cukurova for $3.1bn, but later, Alfa offered a $3.3bn package and Cukurova canceled the deal and gave a 13% stake in Turkcell to Alfa. An international arbitration...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Jupiter Research, 62% of European music media firms are ready to vote against DRM or for a single DRM standard. Facing difficulties to get a common position, more and more music houses and...

Huawei will partner with independent record label distributor, The Orchard, on a digital music service. LogicaCMG will sell its telecom division to private equity firms for $518m. Acision, the new company, will have revenues of about $500m and 1,700 people....

Siemens Networks has succeeded to transmit 10Gbit/s via a PON access network. Optnex shares rose 16% after successful IPO that raised $253m. Alcatel-Lucent has shipped 30m DSL ports in 2006, on a total of 100m ports (+20%) delivered during the year. Nortel...

Samsung said it will gradually suspend production of CDMA handsets in Brazil, following the Vivo decision to move to GSM. For the fun: a Dutch mobile start-up, Waleli, has announced its Waleli GSM doorbell product Cisco and Nokia have announced enhancements...

Alcatel-Lucent is providing its 10 Gigabit Metro Ethernet IP solution to Netia (Poland) for a national deployment. It will deploy WiMAX networks for Telmex in Latin America. Alvarion will deploy a trial WiMAX network in Catalonia. Ericsson will supply...