Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Siemens will discontinue sales and support of its EWSD digital switching platform in North America from 01/08.

Ericsson has signed a global agreement with independent music distributor The Orchard to distribute full track downloads and master tones. Safran/ Sagem (France) seeks to outsource mobile phone manufacturing.

Nokia has won a contract from the US Army to build a 3G WCDMA/HSDPA network.

France Telecom is considering switching online portal advertising services from Yahoo to Google. DT plans to increase ULL monthly fees it charges alternative operators by 13% to about €12. Belgacom and its mobile unit Proximus have signed a mobile roaming...

Rostelecom (Russia) may sell its 11% stake in Golden Telecom.

China Mobile buys abroad: it has signed a deal to buy almost 89% stake in Paktel (Pakistan) for $284m from Millicom (Luxembourg). It also would invest in Datang, a TD-SCDMA vendor in China. Vodafone Egypt will sign a 3G licence deal, worth $580m, with...

Portugal has reached a mobile subscriber base of almost 12m as of Sept. 06. VNPT (Vietnam) added 1.2m fixed line subscribers, 151k internet users and 3.3m mobile subscribers in 2006. VNPT had in total 17.9m telephone subscribers. Pakistan' s mobile subscriber...

VNPT (Vietnam) reports 2006 revenues of $2.4bn, up 15%, and targets an increase of 10% in revenues and an additional 6.5m telephone subscribers in 2007. China Mobile reports 2006 EBT of $12.4bn, up 23%, on revenues of $36.6bn, up 21%. It had 318m mobile...

Avaya has appointed Stuart Wells as senior VP and President of Global Communications segment.

Motorola reports disappointing 4Q06 results. 4Q06 revenues were $11.8bn, up 17%, while net earnings were at $624m, down 48%. While mobile phone shipment volume grew 47%, average selling price and operating margins suffered due to demand for low end products...