Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola plans cutting 3,500 jobs after a disappointing 4Q06, a measure to save $400m over two years. Tellabs CTO, Tom Gruenwald, is retiring. No successor in sight.

Strong with Portugal' s regulator approval for its hostile bid for PT, Sonae has launched its offer for $12,3 per PT share. But the current price for a PT share is $13,1, so Sonae does not offer a premium, but a minus, and analysts doubt that the bid...

According to Juniper Research, the total MVNO subscriber number would reach 352m by 2012, from current 93m in 2006. Revenues would jump to $67bn by 2012, from current $15bn. What Juniper also anticipates is a change in the MVNO business model. The voice-only...

A few set of market information released this week: According to ComScore, US search engine ranking starts with Google in pole position with over 47% market share (up 0.4 point), followed by Yahoo with 38.5% (up 0.3 point), then Microsoft with 10.5% (down...

Venice, the IPTV project from Skype founders, Janus Friis et Niklas Zennström, has been renamed Joost. Joost targets to offer Internet on-demand customers to studios, cable TV and TV networks.

Orca Interactive (Israel), an IPTV middleware vendor, is mulling takeover talks with a number of potential buyers. A strong potential suitor could be Comverse. Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco are mulling taking over in total or partially Taiwan's ZyXEL Communications....

Safran/ Sagem (France) will change its strategy. Mobile phones unit is no more for sale. Sagem delivered more than 17m units in 2006 (-1% in volume and -12% in value). Sagem will focus on quality and not volume. Nokia is providing its Intellisync Wireless...

Samsung has secured a deal with Time Warner to provide its open cable application platform to expand Time Warner’s existing digital TV services system. UTStarcom has received an order for 300,000 new PHS handsets ( Q-Box) from China Telecom. Navini will...

Ericsson has been chosen by Dialog Telekom (Sri Lanka) to roll out a 3G/HSDPA network. It will deliver a a trunk radio network (microwave technology) to Russian mobile operator CJSC Yeniseytelecom. It also will provide Telcel (Mexico) with a 3GPP upgraded...

Sagem (France – Safran Group) reports €2.1bn in 2006 sales, down 7.5%. Intel posts 4Q06 net profit down 39% to $1.5bn, on revenues of $9.7bn, down 5%. During 2006, Intel earned $5bn on revenues of $ 35.4bn. Sony Ericsson has announced strong results:...