Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Mobile payments m-Commerce era is taking off, and will see tremendous expansion in coming years. The trend, highlighted by Juniper Research, would be marked by the entrance of new players offering m-payment schemes, such as PayPal, offering a new text...

Remember, it was in the beginning of the third millennium, and most (all) mobile operators and market analysts were projecting mobile content revenues to jump to 20%-25% of their total revenues (from 7%-8%) in a 5-year period. We are in 2006, and what...

ARCEP, the French regulator agency, has unveiled some interesting figures on the French telecom market. The global market was worth some €10.4bn in 4Q05, of which 80% from fixed telephony, mobile services and Internet. These three segments grew about...

The GSM Association (GSMA) is pleased to periodically report the advance of the GSM technologies. And it is right that numbers are favorable: 1.8bn GSM users in the world and fastest growing user base; a GSM world more than six times bigger (82% market...

If we look at market figures, they do not weigh a lot in the French mobile market. Less than 1% of the subscriber base (about 425k subscribers) for about 10 MVNOs operating now in France. But growth is much more impressive. In 1Q06 they added almost 146k...

Worldwide telecom/ datacom equipment market According to Infonetics, the worldwide total telecom and datacom equipment revenue totaled $108bn in 2005, and could grow to $143.5bn in 2009. Most of the growth should be driven by NG voice and broadband aggregation...

Telefonica announced strong 1Q06 results with net income growing 40% to €1.3bn, on revenues soaring 45% to €12bn, as reported. Telefonica added in the fiscal year two companies: Cesky Telecom (Czech Rep.) and O2 (UK). Its OIBDA jumped 37% to €4.7bn. Revenues...

DT announced 1Q06 net profit rose 10% to €1.1bn, on sales up 4% to €14.8bn. The mobile unit was the growth driver again, outpacing declines in its traditional fixed-line business. According to this results, DT changed its sales forecast for T-Mobile and...

A few set of market information released this week: Ericsson projects a global mobile market of three billion mobile subscribers by 2007. It expects the global mobile infrastructure market to show moderate growth, while the addressable market for professional...

In a saturated market, it is vital for vendors to investigate the replacement market. According to Telephia, 25% of European mobile users are replacing their handsets every year, and 60% are replacing their mobile phones within two years. On average,...