Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Things are moving. Apple started selling its iPhone through exclusive deals, high priced devices and (high) revenue-sharing (numbers between 20% and 30% were rumored). The model seems working well in the US where ATT has sold some 10m units and gained...

DT said its 1Q08 adjusted net profit rose 33% to €750m, with EBITDA at €4.7bn (almost flat) and revenues down 3% to €15bn. Revenues and EBITDA fell short of expectations, but net profit was better than expected. DT lost 120k fixed line users in the quarter,...

FT reported pretty good results, both in revenues and margins. 1Q08 revenues amounted to €13bn, up 1.4%, while EBITDA grew 3% to €4.8bn with an EBITDA margin of 36.8% (+0.5pp). Most items were reported above forecasts. Growth was driven by good results...

Its 1Q08 net profit fell 35% to €501m on revenues of €7.3bn, down 2.5%. TI was hit by stiffening competition in Italy's broadband market and regulatory changes in fixed line. Its performance in emerging markets was also lowered by wider loss in its TIM...

“ New Clearwire” : Sprint, and Clearwire will finally combine their WiMAX businesses and launch a nationwide network. Investors are also part of the deal, with Intel, Google, Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Bright House Networks, bringing $3.2bn in the...

A few set of market information released this week: According to ITU, Africa had more than 250m mobile subscribers at the end of 2007, adding some 65m new users in 2007. Carphone (UK) plans to sell a 50% stake in its retail business (2,400 stores across...

T-Mobile USA had almost 31m mobile subs at the end of March, adding over 980k new users during the quarter. Orange doubled its mobile broadband subscribers to 14.8m, of which 8.2m in France. France had 55.8m mobile subscribers at the end of March, adding...

Huawei would plan to sell stake in its mobile handset division in order to help enter the NA market. In addition, it targets to double its handset production to 50m units in 2008, outsourcing production from Flextronics and Cal-Comp, but also recently...

Ericsson will deliver a $146m mobile network to Telkom Kenya. It has been selected by Telcel (Mexico) to provide field maintenance activities for its GSM, TDMA and transmission networks. NSN will modernize Telkomsel network in Indonesia, deploying latest...

DT is rumored to be to be mulling a bid for Sprint Nextel, in spite of this latter' s current difficulties. In a separate announcement, DT and the Greek government are expected to be close to reaching an agreement for the acquisition of a stake in OTE...