Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia has received a GSM network expansion order from Sichuan Unicom (China). Nortel will provide provide GSM Railway (GSM-R) switching centers to the Ministry of Railways (MOR) to cover about half of MOR's national railway network. Alcatel has carried...

HP reports 1Q06 net income of $1.5bn, up 51%; sales are up 5% to $22.6bn (of which $7bn in PC sales (+10%) ; $7bn in video and print (+5%))

Orascom plans to increase its stake in Hutchison Telecom International. Telekom Malaysia is considering publicly listing Spice Telecom, an Indian mobile phone company in which it has a controlling stake of 49%.

BSNL (India) will launch the Bharat-Lanka submarine cable project by June 2006. China will fund the National Fibre Optic Backbone project in Ghana through a soft loan to the Ghana government. African Internet users pay on average 90 times what U.S. surfers...

Vodafone and Softbank will form a 50/50 JV to develop mobile phones, services and content, mostly in Japan. Vodafone KK Japan will change its name to Softbank Mobile after Softbank acquired Vodafone operations in Japan last month. MTS (Russia) will benefit...

China Mobile added 4.3m new mobile subscribers in April, bringing its total base to 265m. BT had 7.9m broadband users at the end of March. Hutchison Telecom announced 21.1m mobile subscribers (up62%) as of end of March, of which 2m in Hong Kong and Macau,...

Hutchison Telecom announced 1Q06 net loss of $3m, narrowing from about $13 loss in 1Q2005. BT reported 1Q06 sales of €3.5bn, up 7%, of which broadband and IT services gained 28% to €1.26bn. EBITDA rose 1% to €1bn, while net profit fell 11% to €267m, due...

According to Dittberner, worldwide FTTH shipments increased 22% quarter-over-quarter and 180% from the same quarter last year, to 925,000 new subscribers, of which almost 82% in Japan. The technology split is 75% for GPON-EPON and 25% for BPON. In 1Q06,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) is expected to garner sales of about 7.8m units by 2011. In-Stat forecasts that the APAC telecom equipment market will continue to grow robustly, from...

Ericsson is increasingly focusing R&D efforts on technology that helps customers reduce opex, and cutting lead-times for development projects. IBM has introduced its new Client Lotus Notes. Ericsson opens an office in Nairobi (Kenya).