Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia, Siemens and NEC have signed a MoU for joint co-operation on WCDMA radio networks. The deal is a continuation of the Siemens Networks/NEC joint venture firm Mobisphere on WCDMA. Nokia has unveiled an important enhancement to its 3G radio access...

Juniper Networks will provide its Integrated Security Gateway (ISG 200s) to protect T-Mobile Austria ' s data users. Adtran has won AT&T's Ethernet over copper and IP DSLAMs bids. Adtran was already selling its Total Access 3000 system to SBC. Total Access...

LG has won contracts from about 12 mobile operators for supplying GSMA' s low-cost 3G handsets. Millions of units could be delivered. Ericsson has been awarded managed services contract by Mobistar. The 5-year deal is worth $390m. It also has been awarded...

Thomson achieved 2006 net revenues of €5.8bn, up 4.7%, EBIT of €504m, almost flat, and net profit of €55m.

Vodafone will pay $11bn in cash for the 67% stake of Hutchison Telecom in Hutchison Essar, and plans to acquire the remaining 33% stake from the Essar group. France Telecom is believed selling its Dutch mobile operations to fund expansion in emerging...

France: Cable Network company Noos-Numericable seeks taking over Illiad and its Free and One.Tel divisions. The deal could be worth about €5bn. Earthlink has been tapped by Houston (US) to design and build a city-wide wireless broadband Wi-Fi network...

The Bridge Mobile Alliance – a group of 9 Asian mobile operators including SingTel, SK T, Maxis or Bharti Airtel – has agreed to expand WCDMA coverage in Asia, develop common mobile services and jointly purchase 3G phones. AT&T (Cingular Wireless) will...

Reliance added 1.2m new subscribers in January to bring its total base to 28m. CTI Movil ended 2006 with almost 11m mobile users in Argentina (over 10m alone), Paraguay and Urugay. Claro (Chile) reports a total subscriber base of 2.4m at the end of 2006....

America Movil announced a 2006 net profit of $4bn, up 32%, on revenues of $21.4bn, up 24%. EBITDA reached $7.8bn, up 50%, but EBITDA margin declined to 36.7%. CTI Movil (Argentina) reports 2006 revenues of $1.4bn, up 49%. Claro (Chile) posted 2006 revenues...

Alcatel-Lucent has announced 1500 jobs to be cut in France, with 5 to 8 sites to be closed.