Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Sprint Nextel posted 1Q06 net income of $419m, down 11%, but revenues rose 9% proforma to $11.5bn. Proforma mobile revenues reached $8.5bn (+13%). Mobile ARPU was $62, of which $7 for data revenues. Long distance services accounted for $1.7bn, down 3%,...

Alcatel named Christian Reinaudo EVP Integration Project Team Leader (for managing the merger with Lucent); Frédéric Rose is appointed EVP, president of Alcatel Asia Pacific region; Stéphane Terranova is appointed president, Integration and Services activities....

Africa Telecommunication and ICT Conference. 13-17/05 2006 Nairobi, Kenia www.nepadcouncil.org ICIN2006 Advance Programme 29/05-1/06 Bordeaux (France) www.icin-conference.com and icin2006@adera.fr CommunicAsia 2006 & BroadcastAsia 20-23/06 Singapore www.communicasia.com...

Lucent posts 1Q06 net income of $181m (down32% ) on revenues of $2.1bn (down 8%). While US revenues was almost flat (+3%) but accounted for 70% of total revenues, non-US revenues were down 28%. Most critical regional revenues were in APAC where sales...

ATT results ATT reports strong 1Q06 results. Net income was $1,45bn on sales of $15.8bn. It was the first reported period with combined results from SBC and ATT. The traditional wireline business reported sales of $14.7bn, down 5.5%, and the company lost...

A few set of market information released this week: According to NDP Group, mobile video watching has a long way to go before becoming a mass practice among mobile phone users. Only 28% of all mobile phones in use are capable of playing digital video,...

Nokia is dealing with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in its Research Center Cambridge (USA) to develop high-impact research on "state-of-the-art" communications technologies. IBM and Panasonic/Matsushita are working on next generation...

Intel and Pacific Internet are teaming to deploy Singapore's first mobile WiMAX infrastructure, and related applications. Genesys/ Alcatel released a new version of its workforce management (WFM) application as part of the Genesys 7.2 contact center suite....

M1 (Singapore) is working with MediaCorp Studios to launch new mobile TV services. Nokia launched the Nokia N93 multimedia phone. It has shipped 5m N-series devices since last year.

Ciena is providing 10Gb Ethernet, SDH and switching equipment to GlobalConnect (Denmark). Alcatel has been selected by Swedish cable TV operator Com Hem to provide its IP service routing platform to enable triple play services, and by Hansenet (Telecom...