Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

France Telecom will sell its France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications (FTMSC) unit to Apax Partners for $76m. FT is getting out of the satellite communications business. FT is also to sell its 54% stake in Pages Jaunes (phone directory) to Goldman...

Morocco has granted three 3G licenses to Maroc Telecom (Vivendi Group), Maroc Connect and Médi Telecom (JV between Telefonica and Portugal Telecom). Orascom, mobilkom, and Telenor are shortlisted in Serbian Mobi63 auction. 3 Italia has reached the 100,000...

Bharti Airtel (India) added 3.7m new customers in 2Q06 to reach a subscriber base of 24.5m. Telecom Italia announced 7.9m broadband users at the end of June. 1.6m are abroad in France, Germany and Holland. It also said it had 30.4m mobile subscribers...

Bharti Airtel (India) posted a net profit up 48% to €130m on revenues of €663m. Telefonica Moviles reports a 1H06 net profit of €1.1bn (up 13%), on revenues of €8.8bn, up 13%. Revenues in Spain rose 3% to €4.4bn. OIBDA grew 12.4% to €2.9bn. Telefonica...

Lee Hsien Yang, CEO of Singapore based Singtel is stepping down. Olivier Baujard is the Alcatel-Lucent new Corporate Technical Officer; Helle Kristoffersen is the Alcatel-Lucent new Corporate Strategy VP Jeong Kim will remain Président of the Bell Labs....

According to the French regulator (ARCEP), the telecom capex has grow in 2005 by 15% to €6.5bn, the first growth since the telecom burst in 2001. In 2005, telecom services reached €40bn (+2.4%), drawn by broadband and mobile. Fixed-line revenues have...

More CDMA Operators Turning to GSM The Global mobile Suppliers Association has reported that an increasing number of CDMA operators are facing falling market share and responding by switching to the GSM family (GSM/EDGE,WCDMA-HSPA) for business growth....

Japan remains the country ahead of the rest of the world by three or four years in using new multimedia innovations. Over 43% of Japanese Internet users employ e-money several times a month. 74% of Japanese consumers would like to use a mobile credit...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Harris Interactive, Americans are not keen on sending pictures and videos with their cell phone. 58% of mobile users state they have not used any of these services; 18% have sent pictures,...

Litterature: you can download the 63-page white paper from the 3GAmericas on “The Global Evolution of UMTS/HSPA and Beyond” at: http://www.3gamericas.org/English/pdfs/wp_UMTS_Rel7_Beyond_FINAL.pdf