Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Four German mobile operators (T-Mobile , O2, Vodafone and E-Plus) have decided to join forces to promote mobile TV services, during the World Soccer Cup in June/ July. The monthly fee should be ranging from €5 to €15, depending on the number of channels...

: Subtel regulator announced a mobile subscriber base of 7.4m users, up 19% since the end of 2005. America Movil has 4.6m customers, followed by Telefonica’ Movistar with 2.6m and Alegro PCS with 255,000 users. With its recent acquisition of Vmobile (),...

OTE () reports that its revenues grew by 6.5% in 1Q06 to €1.4bn, while its net profit rose to €110m, up 39%.

Versatel (NL) should cut 200 jobs as part of a restructuring plan. SUN should fire some 5000 jobs, 13% of its workforce, in next six months, under a plan to cut expenses.

Huawei has appointed Etisalat Academy, a division of the Etisalat operator, as its regional training partner in Middle East. IBM has introduced two new open source software products: IBM Tivoli CCMD (Change and Configuration Management Database) for IT...

Shortfall / Ericsson : Telstra () is unhappy with the software of the Service Delivery Platform product supplied to it by Ericsson.

BenQ unveiled two new handset models: the design-oriented BenQ-Siemens A38 and the business-oriented BenQ-Siemens A58. NEC and Matsushita decided to explore ways to cooperate in their mobile handset business,

ECI Telecom has been awarded a five-year $75m frame agreement by BT for its Exline 2 broadband solutions to over 150,000 prestigious business customers with dedicated, high capacity Digital Private Circuits. Nortel provided ’ s Golden Telecom with additional...

LG-Nortel is providing the world's first handset-based next-generation HSDPA network for SK Telecom (Sth ). Huawei won a GSM network build-out in from Vimpelcom’ s unit TaCom.

Hutchison Telecom and NTT DoCoMo announced a strategic partnership to launch mobile applications. DoCoMo already hold 25% of HT. Telekom Austria plans to integrate fixed and mobile units. China Netcom has integrated its broadband access department and...