Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

China has committed to lending $66m to Ghana to fund telecom projects. Undoubtedly, this is part of current China' s strategy to invest in Africa, the fastest growing (mobile) telecom market today. SK Telecom (S. Korea) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in...

Batelco and Telecom Italia sign a deal to improve services, offer a range of data services to the customers and extend the geographical reach of the companies. California has passed the bill (Assembly Bill 2987) allowing telecom companies to offer cable...

Thai telecom operators have urged the Government to limit the 3G licenses to three carriers. The Moldovan government plans to sell a license for 3G mobile services. Moldova's national telecom operator Moldtelecom has applied for a CDMA2000 mobile licence....

China Mobile added 4.4 customers in May and brings its total base to 269,4m. China Telecom added 1.3m users in May, bringing its total base to 217.8m. The number of T-DMB users in South Korea reached 1m since its launch in December 2005. DoCoMo has more...

The future Nokia Siemens Networks company should cut between 10% and 15% over the next four years. Immediately, 6000 jobs are concerned.

EU roaming fees (II) Originally the EU Commission wanted to cap at cost the wholesale rates operators offer for roaming connections. But national regulators and operators found this plan too complicated, and instead have decided to take the average cost...

Black clouds on IPTV IPTV is often said as the next Eldorado for telecom operators, bringing new revenue opportunities. But revenue opportunities are nor earnings, as said in a new research from Forrester Research. The main benefit of the study is to...

Does Reliance change its strategy? Surprisingly Reliance (India) has applied for new GSM spectrum, and plans to start operations in Mumbai, New Delhi, and several other circles. Reliance was known as a CDMA operator in India (with some 20m mobile subscribers)...

AOL Europe race Last week media speculation puts several contenders, such as BT, BSkyB, Telecom Italia, DT, Neuf Cegetel, Free, Vodafone, The Carphone Warehouse, Orange UK, O2, at the forefront of the race to buy total or part of AOL Europe. In spite...

2G/2.5G still alive in developing countries According to ABI, the developing world is not yet prepared to swallow 3G high upfront costs. What they need now are efficient and easily upgradeable 2G/2.5G networks. Demand is there, but money is not, so even...