Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Siemens bought Chinese Photonic Bridges and commits to NG optical networks. Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, an Alcatel unit, is teaming with Microsoft with Microsoft to deliver vertical solutions for the healthcare industry; Sonus and Netcentrex...

Motorola is rapidly expanding in the Vietnamese mobile market, growing from 1.8% in 2004 to 22% in 2005.

Nokia will deliver the world's first commercial DVB-H mobile TV platform to Finnish Digita. EADS Atrium has won a contract from ESA (the European Space Agency) for developing and constructing a communications satellite, called HYLAS. The satellite will...

Huawei won a contract from Thailand's True Move for a GSM network expansion. MTN Uganda has chosen Ericsson and Cisco to deliver an IP core network. Siemens is providing GSM-R communications network equipment to the Beijing-Tianjin railways in China.

Rumors say that Verizon and Vodafone would have finally settled for the sale of the 45% stake Vodafone hold in Verizon Wireless. The deal should be worth $48bn + assumption of $8bn in debt. In order to stimulate broadband deployment in rural and regional...

Qwest acquires privately held OnFiber Communications, a provider of custom-built and managed metropolitan Ethernet and WAN solutions. China Telecom and PCCW are teaming for the roll-out of the first-ever private line Ethernet service between Hong Kong...

DoCoMo and Microsoft will team up to provide mobile music services. Telenor has agreed to accept both cash and equity for its 57% stake in Ukraine's Kyivstar from Vimpelcom and Altimo. In another announcement, the Moscow Arbitration Court has rejected...

Telecom Argentina had 6.4m (+50%) mobile subscribers at the end of March, 4m of fixed line subscribers and 244k broadband fixed customers. Venezuela: mobile penetration reached 51% with 13.7m mobile users (+55%) at the end of March. MTN (South Africa)...

Telecom Argentina reported $530m (+30%) in 1Q06 revenues, of which 55% in mobile (up 60%), 8% in internet and data (up 19%). OIBDA increased by 7% y/y to $179m. Net income was down 99% to $1m. Telekom Malaysia posted a 1Q06 net profit of $144m (up 39%),...

The arm-wrestling match between The EU Commission and European mobile operators has continued last week. The European mobile operators' strategy is clear: trying to render EU Commission' s project harmless and avoid harsh regulation. During the week,...