Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Huawei has been selected by eMobile (Japan) to deploy its UTMS/HSDPA network. It made its first mobile inroads in the US market, selected by Leap Wireless to deploy a CDMA 2000 1X EV-DO Rev. A-capable network. It has signed a deal with Spain's Vodafone...

Cisco posts FY revenue up 15% to $28.5bn (including $1bn from S.A.), while FY4Q06 revenue grew 21% to $8bn. Net income was down 3% to $5.6bn, and for the quarter net income went up 0.3% to $1.5bn, due to increased R&D expenses (22% of the revenues this...

Google swallows mobile photo-recognition software developer Neven Vision. Boingo Wireless raises $65m in Series C funding. Vodafone Portugal is considering offering fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services in the country. While Portugal Telecom is always...

Around 10% of local value added service providers failed in inspection (measure the service quality of the providers) by China's MII (Chinese Ministry of Information Industry). 45 would be rechecked and could imply that the service provider's license...

MediaFlo (Qualcomm) has received green light in Japan. The MediaFlo mobile TV network technology will be up and running in Japan sometime in 2008. Disney Mobile will delay the launch of its mobile virtual network operator phone service in the UK. Enforta...

Kyivstar (Ukraine) announced that at the end of June it had 16m subscribers. Telemig's user base in Brazil increased to 3.4m, up 13%. Brazil 's mobile customer base reached 93m at the end of July. Pakistan has reached 34.5m mobile user base in June. MTS...

Hutchison Telecom returns to profit. 1H06 net profit amounted to $257k, ve loss of $48m, on revenues jumping 48% to $2bn. Strong performance in the Indian and Israeli markets drove the growth. Kyivstar (Ukraine) reports 1H revenue of $757m, up 68%, a...

It is vacation time for most of us, as well as for info. So Telcoflash will take few days rest and will come back around August 20. Batteries will be filled and we will start again with enthusiasm and full efficiency.Enjoy your vacation time too.Best...

Alcatel is still hungry. Lucent is not enough to satisfy Alcatel' s appetite. Perhaps, before the merger with Lucent, Alcatel could sign a deal with Nortel to buy its UMTS business. For Alcatel it should be a good opporunity to reinforce its position...

Time Warner took the opportunity of financial meeting to confirm its new strategy. The strategy of acquisition of customers, and make them loyal with propriatary services or multimedia content will end soon, and be replaced with an open strategy of an...