Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

DT issued a profit warning due to several concerns on high loss of fixed lines subscribers in Germany, high exchange rate, largely offsetting growth in mobile subscribers both in Germany and the USA, and growth in new DSL sign-ups in Germany. 2007 EBITDA...

FT announced better-than-expected results. 2006 revenues were €51.7bn, up 7.5%, but earnings were down 26% to about €4.2bn. 4Q06 revenues rose 3% to €13bn. Growth has been driven by the mobile business and by the acquisition of Amena (Spain). FT had 5.8m...

The Nokia-Siemens Networks merger is expected to result in a headcount adjustement of about 10%-15% over the next four years or about 6,000- 9,000 people out. KPN appoints Thorsten Dirks as new CEO of E-Plus unit in Germany. Carl Icahn has been nominated...

The EMEA mobile phone market is very interesting, with EU almost saturated, reporting a declining 11% growth rate in volume in 2006, but where the high-end market (smartphone and convergence) will drive the growth, and with booming CEMA (Central Europe,...

According to IDC, worldwide mobile phone sales were over the 1bn-mark in 2006, and 4Q06 handsets sales also set a record for a single quarter with almost 295m units sold. Nokia remains the undisputed market leader, ahead of Motorola that gains ground....

According to Juniper Research, EU consumers are wanting customized IPTV content and massively choose telcos and ISPs as provider for their best service quality. Incumbents, CAPs and ISPs have therefore a narrow opportunity window to get customer loyalty...

End of January is a milestone for Telcoflash. We celebrate the third birthday of the newsletter and the second of its web life. Telcoflash was launched in early 2004 and in January 2005 the blog Telcoflashnews was opened in order to make information retrieval...

Nokia posted solid earnings, profits and market leadership. 4Q06 revenues were €11.7bn, up 13%, and net profit of €1.3bn, up 19%. Nokia share gained 7% to €16.6 after the announcement. For the full year, Nokia reported a net income of €4.3bn, up 19%,...

Cingular Wireless said its 4Q06 profit grew 285% to $782m and it added 2,4m new subscribers bringing its subscriber base to 61m. ARPU grew 1% to $49.3, while data ARPU grew 53%. 4Q06 revenues were $9.8bn, up 10%., of which $8.8bn in services. Operating...

ATT announced 4Q06 net income rising 17% to $1.9bn, on revenues of $15.9bn, up 23%. Bellsouth reported separate net income of $1.2bn, up 29%, on revenues of $9.1bn, up 5%. ATT wireline business posted revenues of $14.5bn, up 22%, while mobile revenues...