Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

MegaFon (Russia) has completed its Moscow EDGE network upgrade. The three French mobile operators (Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom) were fined €534m for breaking antitrust laws and conspiring to undermine competition. Russia would announce conditions...

43% of Irish households have an internet connection, of which 42% are ADSL and 39% use dial-up connections. Orascom Telecom has surpassed the 50m subscriber mark. India exceeds now 100m GSM subscribers. Ukraine' subscriber base reached 44m as of November...

FT confirms FY2006 outlook, reiterates a forecast of €7bn cash flow this year, and sees similar results in 2007.

TPSA (Poland) will cut up to 5,700 jobs over the next three years. Lawrence Babbio, vice-chairman and president of Verizon, will retire in March 07. Gary Forsee is the new chairman of Sprint Nextel,as Tim Donahue retires as executive chairman at the end...

A few set of market information released this week: According to NPA Conseil, French VOD revenues would reach €340m by 2011, from €54m in 2007. According to IDC, too expensive prices are keeping US mobile users from buying mobile entertainment offerings....

Microsoft has unveiled a new enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, for desktop communications. Terayon is for sale. Motorola and Cisco are bidding for about $250m, but Harmonic and Arris should also be i...

Siemens has introduced OpenStage, a new line of IP telephones. OpenStage phones use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to integrate wired, wireless and IP communications. Fujitsu has introduced a new H.264 format video-processing IC for NG DVD HD.

BenQ Mobile (the insolvent JV between Siemens and BenQ) may be sold to a private equity fund. Siemens has refused to pay €100m to BenQ, claiming that BenQ failed to fulfil its contractual obligations to sustain the operations on a long-term basis. LG...

Samsung should deploy a wireless broadband networks in China. Sagem is deploying an experimental FTTH network for Algerie Telecom. Kyocera will deploy its iBurst product line (802.20 pre-mobile WiMAX) in Lebanon for Cedarcom. Alcatel-Lucent has delivered...

Pantech would provide 3.5m mobile handsets to Cigular in the USA. Pantech delivered about 1m mobile phones this year to Cingular. Huawei has signed a contract with the Federated States of Micronesia Telecommunications Corporation (FSMTC) for GSM/GPRS/EDGE...