Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Level 3 has agreed to acquire TelCove, for $1.2bn. The deal provides Level 3 with more than 300 LMDS and 39 GHz licenses covering 90% of the U.S. population. France Telecom is teaming with TPS to launch the first high definition IP TV service in the world....

Sprint Nextel should decide over the next several months the technology to be used for its 2.5 GHz spectrum: WiMAX, UMTS TD-CDMA or Flash-OFDM. SK Telecom (Sth Korea) targets a 20% growth in data revenues in 2006. It will launch HSDPA services in May...

India added record 4m GSM new subscribers in March to a total GSM subscriber base of 69.2m. CANTV (Venezuela) had 5.6m mobile subscribers, up 75%, at the end of March. Iusacell (Mexico) had 1.9m mobile subscribers at the end of March. SingTel (Singapore)...

SK Telecom reported 1Q06 net income of $355m, down 8%, on revenues of $2.7bn, up 5%. CANTV (Venezuela) posts 1Q05 profit pf $74m (down 37%) and revenues of $576m, up 32%. EBITDA fell 2% to $172m. Iusacell (Mexico) announced a net loss of $44m in 1Q06...

Kobi Alexander (CEO) , David Kreinberg (CFO) , and William Sorin (senior general counsel and corporate secretary), resigned from Comverse Technology. Vodafone could employ Ian MacLaurin after its departure from the company as Chairman. It could be paid...

This week was also rich in financial announcements. The basic lesson is the confirmation of an healthy telecom market. On the services side, revenues growth range from 0% to 20% . It seems that the bigger, the lower revenue growth rate (-2% for DoCoMo,...

According to BMI, Asia had 820m mobile subscribers in 2005 (+20%), of which 59m were 3G users. On a population estimated at 3.5bn people in 2010, BMI forecasts that Asia would have 1.75bn mobile users, or a mobile penetration of 50%, of which about 300m...

Easier TV service deployment in sight, but priority content delivery yet debated In the US, telcos would not need any more local authorities approval to roll out TV services. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has condemned, with a large majority,...

Apple has filed a US patent (n°20060007222) for a project to include a film camera into a LCD screen. Sensors will be spread over the screen panel to capture light information that will be used to create images. The more sensors, the best image. Will...

More than 20 telecom industry vendors have create a new industry trade association focused on creating an interoperability testing and certification program – the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA). The well-known problems facing CP-TA...