Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

After Reliance, Vodafone, TPG, Essar, Maxis, Orascom, Blackstone, Hinduja (India) says it is interested in Hutchison Essar majority stake. It seems that Maxis is already out. Reliance has received support of Blackstone, Apax Partners, Carlyle and KKR,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to iSupply, the worldwide base of mobile gamers will more than double to 134m by 2010, with related revenues doubling to $6bn. According to Infonetics, world incumbent carrier capex would amount...

According to Fevad, E-commerce in France is growing and prosperous. More than €2bn were spent in two last months (+17%), with a 43% growth for high-tech products. The four main online payment platforms (Atos Origin, Caisses d'Epargne, Experian, Ogone...

Cisco has bought IronPort Systems, a provider of messaging security applications, for $830m. New hope for BenQ Mobile : an unnamed investor group is interested in acquiring the operations of insolvent German mobile handset maker. Samsung Electronics has...

Dasan Networks will provide FTTH EPON system to KT (S.Korea). Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, Tyco and Fujitsu are shortlisted by Flag Telecom for its $1.5bn undersea cable project. Tekelec will provide its EAGLE 5 platform to Pelephone (Israel) for number portability....

Huawei has successfully introduced its circuit and packet switched network equipment into KPN' s mobile network in the Netherlands. Nokia has been chosen by Telefonica Moviles Panama for building a country-wide GSM/GRPS network.

Tellabs provides 4Q06 preliminary revenue estimate at ca $460m and EPS at between 5 cents to 7 cents. Motorola cuts 4Q06 profit and adjusted revenues between $11.6bn and $11.8bn, due to "unfavorable geographical and product-tier mix of sales." Motorola...

Maroc Telecom (Morocco) will pay €220m to buy 51% of Onatel (Burkina Faso). MTN Nigeria will pay $70m to acquire VGN Communications.

KT (S. Korea) is ready to roll out FTTH EPON-based network and expects to enrol 800,000 subscribers in 2007. Neuf Cegetel (France) will roll out in February its new Neuf Box 4, a new multifunction modem, including WiFi, 4-port Ethernet switching, and...

US MetroPCS has filed for an $ 1.1bn IPO. DoCoMo plans to launch a $1.7bn Super 3G mobile phone network by 2010. It would be an upgrade of NTT DoCoMo's FOMA third-generation system, and would offer 100Mbit/s. In another announcement, it said it has paid...