Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Vimpelcom () confirms its CEO, Alexander Izosimov, may leave following shareholder conflict.

A few set of market information released this week: According to Infonetics, the WiMAX equipment market revenues were $68m in 1Q06, up 48% sequentially. The market should be worth $1.7bn by 2009. Around 30% of WiMAX equipment comes from EMEA, 26% from...

Broadband use boosted by aggressive pricing strategies According to the FCC, there were 47m broadband subscribers in the US by the end of 2005 (penetration of 16% vs population), while Nielsen study reports that 69% of US citizens have Internet access...

Welcome GEMALTO Gemalto is born from the combination of two smart card leaders, Gemplus and Axalto. The EU Commission has cleared the merging process, and the new company will have about € 1.8bn in turnover, of which 61% in telecoms. Gemalto will be incorporated...

MVNO fashion The MVNO trend is not vanishing at all. More than 213 MVNOs have been set up in a five or six-year period, and are active worldwide, while 34 additional MVNOs are willing to start. It is a quite impressive success. Europe has the greatest...

Radio Access Networks Study According to Infonetics Research, the market for radio access network (RAN) dropped 22% to $7.4bn in 1Q06 due to declines in CDMA EV-DO and GSM/GPRS RAN equipment, while UMTS RAN equipment rose by 8%. Total RAN revenues are...

Vonage IPO disaster II Not only the Vonage IPO was a disaster for the company and for the buyers as the share goes down some 30% in a week, but it is expected now that Vonage would be hit by a flood of lawsuits over its IPO. The main problem is that Vonage...

Strong Future for Mobile TV A new study from Portio Research found that as many as 50% of European mobile users are interested in mobile TV, and are ready to pay €10 per month for the service. This obviously suggests that the market potential is huge....

Wi-Fi in flight soon Following recent 800 MHz spectrum auction by FCC for ATG (air-to-ground ) licensee-provided communications services to passengers on commercial , AirCell ACBidCo and JetBlue Airways' Live TV respectively won 3MHz and 1MHz spectrum...

Intense lobbying before EU telecom Ministers meeting 30 European major telco CEOs are pushing for lighter regulatory touch on last-mile access networks and in particular for new FTTH networks. The move tries to influence the EU Commission to relax their...