Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola has completed Egypt's Mobinil GSM network expansion. It will supply a countrywide 3.5G HSDPA network for MTC Kuwait.

Amdocs expects reporting results in line with guidance for its FY 1Q07 (ended Dec 31, 2006). 1Q07 revenues should be about $690m and 2007 annual revenues of $ 2.9bn. 1Q07 diluted earnings per share on a non-GAAP basis were expected to be $0.50. Samsung...

Vivendi (France) continues to claim that under the recent ruling by the Austrian Supreme Court, DT must return either the cash or the shares that the German telco bought from the Polish power conglomerate, Elektrim. The game is worth €2bn. Yahoo is buying...

Vonage will resell EarthLink municipal WiFi services under its own brand name from 2H07. Vonage is therefore becoming an ISP, but remains focused on VOIP. Vodafone has launched its "Vodafone at Home" broadband package, in the UK, for about €36 a month...

MTV and Amp'd Mobile (US) are working together to develop original made-for-mobile content. Bahrain' s telecom regulator (TRA) has granted two National Fixed Wireless Services (NFWS) licenses to Mena Telecom and MTC-Vodafone Bahrain. Crown Castle' s mobile...

Reliance (India) added 1.4m new customers in dec. 06, bringing its total to almost 30m. NRJ mobile (MVNO in France) reports 312k customers at year-end. Amp'd (MVNO in the US) reports 100k subscribers at year-end, with ARPU of over $100, of which 30% from...

Sprint Nextel reports a loss of 300k+ postpaid iDEN subscribers in 4Q06, almost doubling on 3Q06 figure, and impacting 2006 financials. In spite of announcement of postpaid customer base will grow again in 2007, as well as churn could go under 2%, the...

BenQ Mobile is firing 310 employees at its Manaus (Brazil) plant. Sprint Nextel plans to cut 5000 positions as it unifies business and customer care systems. Altimo (Russia) has appointed Kurt Hellstrom, former Ericsson CEO, to its international advisory...

Hitachi has introduced a 1To (1000 Go) hard disk at less than $400 retail price. Cisco will move 20% of its 50,000 workforce to Bengalore (India) by 2010. The chief globalization officer at Cisco, Wim Elfrink, is the first to leave the Silicon Valley....

The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified the first products with Wi-Fi Protected Setup designed to ease the setup of Home Wi-Fi networks, Alvarion and Accton Technology have formed Accton Wireless Broadband (AWB),a new company based in Taiwan, to develop mass...