Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Gartner and IDC have released their respective study of the world PC market. Figures do not differ strongly between the two researches. The market was worth ca 230m units sold in 2006, up about 9%. HP remains the market leader with about 17% market share,...

Unexpectedly, Skype has changed its business case to follow rivals and fit with customer demand. First Skype has raised its SkypeOut charges for all calls to land-lines and mobiles by €0.039 (new connection fee). For an average Skype user, the increase...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, 50,000 WiFi mesh Access points unit shipments were made in 2006. It would grow to 100,000 units in 2010. iSupply reports that Apple' s iPhone could generate 50% gross margin, based...

Alcatel-Lucent is providing a network-based IP Centrex solution to Vodafone Netherlands to allow its business customers to use mobile phones to access their company communications resources, wherevever they are. NEC will supply a point-to-point access...

Motorola has signed an agreement with MTN (India) to supply a UMTS network in New Delhi. Ericsson has been awarded two GSM/EDGE network equipment contracts by Digicel in El Salvador and Guyana.

Motorola reports disappointing 4Q06 results. 4Q06 revenues were $11.8bn, up 17%, while net earnings were at $624m, down 48%. JDSU has pre-announced 4Q06 revenues and earnings better than expected. Growth is coming from test-and-measurement division and...

ATT is now offering bundled fixed and mobile services for $60 a month. Pirelli (Italy) is seeking new minority shareholders in Olimpia (controlling 18% of Telecom Italia), while Sistema (Russia) is eyeing the 18% stake in TI. OTE (Greece) should be sold...

TDC (Denmark) is selling mobile operator Bite (Latvia) for €450m to Mid Europa Partners. Zapp will build a 3G network covering most of Romania by year-end. NetOne (Zimbabwe) will enhance its GSM coverage, installing some 200 new GSM base stations this...

China Mobile added 4.8m new mobile users in Dec. 06 and 54.6m in 2006 (up 28.5%), ended 2006 with 301,2m mobile subscribers. China Unicom added 1.3m new users in Dec.06, and 14.6m news users in 2006, down 7%, and ended 2006 with 142.4m mobile subscribers,...

Fastweb (Italy) reports 4Q06 revenues up 26% to €362m, and an EBITDA of €127m.