Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Ericsson is providing Orange Botswana with its Ericsson Expander solution, to expand coverage. Huawei has signed a GSM network expansion contract with Digitel in the Philippines. It also signed a $100m contract with Telecom Malaysia Investment Bangladesh...

Dell launched a profit warning for its FY1Q06. Its EPS should be down about 10%-15% to 33 cents, while revenues should be at the low end of its expectations at $14.2bn. Fierce competition and discounts are dragging results downwards. Sonus posted 1Q06...

Brazil Telecom is to launch fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services in 2006. AAPT, the TNZ unit in Australia, is no more for sale. TNZ will retain the unit, for lack of partners or a right price. Qualcomm is partnering with BskyB (UK) to test MediaFlo...

Telefonica has signed a content deal with Warner Brothers for its IPTV and video-on-demand (VOD) Imagenio offerings. BT has launched a major Ethernet equipment RFP for its 21CN NG project. Colt has also launched an an Ethernet equipment RFP. FT is said...

Tower operator Crown Castel bought another tower operator Mountain Union Telecom for $309m. This will add some 550 sites and about $26m in turnover. America Movil said it is not interested buying Millicom International, as reported by rumors. Unless its...

Kuwait' s Wataniya reports 7.1m subscribers (+119%) in the 6 countries where it operates as of March 2006. It has 947k subscribers in Kuwait, and 6.2m in Tunisia, Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the Maldives. Africa passed the bar of 150m+ mobile subscribers...

Wataniya Telecom (Kuwait) reported revenues of $360m (+44%) in 1Q06, with EBITDA of $160m and a net profit of $38m. TNZ (New Zealand) reported 9-month net loss of $156m (impacted by a $575m write-off from the book value of AAPT, its Australian unit),...

NTL (UK) is expected to axe some 6000 jobs (1/3 of its workforce) after the merger with cable rival Telewest. Half of the 6000 jobs, will be outsourced.

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Internet users Internet users number reached 694m worldwide, or a global penetration of 14%, according to comScore Networks. The largest country with Internet users still is the US with some 152m users, or about 22% of the total, followed by China with...