Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

China would start rolling out digital television this year. China has about 400m TV viewers and is already one of the leading producers of digital television sets.

TOT (Thailand) has announced discounted bundled service package (fixed-line, international call and Internet services) for limited period (until the end of the month) for a fixed monthly fee ranging from $9 to $27. NTL-Virgin is offering free broadband...

Denmark had achieved penetration levels of the order of 98% with 5.3m mobile users. Colombia had 28m mobile phone subscribers at end-June 2006. Belgium reached 2.4m internet subscribers, up 12%. China had 431m mobile users as of the end of July (+45%).....

Telstra is cutting down expectations for financial results due to new ULL Access regulatory pricing. Revenue growth should be limited to 1.5% to 2% in the year to June 2007 and earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) growth of 2% to 4%. Belgacom (Belgium)...

Sprint Nextel COO, Len Lauer, left the company. Gary Forsee, Sprint Nextel's president and CEO, would take over Lauer's operating responsibilities. E-Plus' CFO, Kees Kerremans is leaving the company. Christian Fuchs is taking over from Kerremans.

A few set of market information released this week: Mobile WiMAX could exceed fixed WiMAX soon. Fixed WiMAX sales would hit the peak in 2007 before giving way to mobile WiMAX in 2008. According to In-Stat, China has 20% of urban households equipped with...

Alcatel and Lucent have chosen their conjugal name: Alcatel Lucent. It is at no surprise but also at no innovation. We should have expected a more appealing brand. The wedding preparation is going on, but grey clouds gathered last week on the proposed...

China Mobile has become the world's biggest wireless carrier in terms of market capitalization, overtaking the struggling Vodafone. With a market capitalization of about $133bn, it overtakes Vodafone' s current $112bn figure. But it is not the only figure...

To fund and deploy a new fiber-optic national network is not a tiny thing (tens of billions of Euro over more than ten years for France), and France tries to avoid concerns with the European Union. It is the reason why the French regulator recommends...

According to the NPD Group, US consumers spent some $4.4bn on 67m mobile handsets in 1H06. Motorola dominates the US market with 32% market share, ahead of Nokia and LG with 16% each, Samsung with 15% and Sony Ericsson with 4%. Motorola captured 42% of...