Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nortel and Siemens have received multi-year supply deals for Ethernet technology PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) from BT. Samsung/Saudi Arabia's Bayanat Al-Oula is building the largest mobile WiMAX network in the Middle East. Aperto Networks got the...

Motorola will supply a national IP-based TETRA network to the Lithuania’ s Ministry of Interior to serve all mission-critical operations (emergency services, state secret service, border guards, customs, etc ). Huawei will deploy south Iraq CDMA network...

South Korea telecom regulator has launched an investigation into excessive royalties asked by Qualcomm. S. Korea accounts for 32% of Qualcomm ' s revenue of $7.5bn. Sonae (Portugal) has received the go-ahead to launch its hostile takeover bid for Portugal...

Neuf Cegetel (France) announced the purchase of Mediafibre, a FTTH competitive access provider in South West of France (City of Pau). Mediafibre offers triple-play services at 100Mbit/s for €39 a month. Reliance Comms. (India) plans to list Flag Telecom...

Hutchison Telecom is launching Vietnamese operations within HT Mobile, its JV with Hanoi Telecom. HT Mobile operates a CDMA 2000 1X ED-VO network. Iliad (France) will shortly sell its phone card subsidiary Kertel for an undisclosed amount. Debitel will...

Virgin Mobile reports 304k mobile subscribers in France, and targets 1m in two years and MVNO pole position in France. Virgin Mobile has 10m users workdwide, of which 3m in the US. Fastweb' s customer base in Italy rose to 1.1m at the end of the year...

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

Johan Vanderplaetse will lead Alcatel-Lucent operatiojns in the CIS region. Perlos, a Nokia supplier for handset casings, will cut 4,000 jobs (30% of its workforce) by the end of 2007.

CES is the right place to analyze the strategies of main players in the home network market. The living home market was very hot in Las Vegas last week with many traditional players announcing new products, but also a bunch of new comers exited by the...

Here is not the output of any crystal ball, but simply few rationales that can help to understand what the mobile future may be. Looking at market evolution estimates, I am surprised that main evaluation criteria are subscriber base and net adds evolution....