Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

The results for the fourth quarter are clearly disappointing. For 4Q06, Alcatel-Lucent reports pro-forma net loss of €(618)m, vs an income of €381m in 4Q05, on revenues of € 4.4bn, down 16% to €4.4.bn. For 2006, it announced pro-forma revenues of €18.2bn,...

BT announced 4Q06 revenues of €7.7bn, up 5%, EBITDA of €2.1bn (+2%), a profit before taxation of €958m (+17%). For 9-mo, revenues were €22.4bn, up 4%, EBITDA grew 2% to € 6.2bn, and profit before taxation rose 23% to €2.8bn. Capex rose 8% to €3.5bn. The...

It is the weakest point of mobile phones. On one side, power consumption is increasing with new power-hungry features (color screen, camera, memory capacity, .;) and the other side batteries frequently need to be reloaded and there always have a short...

U-turn: not only mobile ? Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg explained during the earning conference call that Ericsson does not want to be exclusively in the mobile market. With less optimistic view on the mobile market (lower growth in 2007+, lower margins),...

196 networks have commercially launched EDGE in 105 countries, and 62 more have committed to the EDGE enhancement. Geographical breakdown reveals 96 networks in Europe, 81 in Americas, 44 in MEA (Middle East & Africa) and 37 in Asia. 96 operators are...

Important move by two mobile giants. Vodafone and Orange announced they will share their radio access networks (RANs) in the UK. Of course, such a move will not be completed short term, but will be gradually implemented over a number of years. Rationales...

The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) has asked the mobile industry to give high priority to issues like mobile security in 2007, using the introduction if its Application Security Framework.

The EU Commission will fund a new pan-European consortium (made of companies, universities and user groups) to develop an open architecture for the development, deployment and use of Near Field Communications or NFC-enabled applications in mobile handsets....

CBS has formally created CBS Mobile, a new division within CBS Interactive that will further develop the company's mobile operation, and launches 3 websites for for mobile users. Hearst Magazines is pushing into the mobile space with the introduction...

A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, VOIP would attract 267m subscribers by 2012, vs 38m in 2006. In EU, mobile operators say that roaming charges have declined 25% to €0.62 a minute. Alcatel-Lucent claims a leadership...