Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Alcatel, Huawei and Ericsson will help Digitel (Philippines) to expand its network coverage. Huawei won a $100m turnkey GSM contract for Oasis, an affiliate of Millicom International in Congo, with a capacity of 1m subs, and won building a 3G CDMA2000...

NEC has lowered its FY2005 net profit projection to $111m, down 78%, as well as its revenues to $41bn (down 4%), due to expanding loss in its NEC Electronics semiconductor unit, and weak broadband and IT solution sales. Lucent posts 1Q06 net income of...

Seven Asian mobile operators - Far EasTone (Taiwan), Hutchison Essar (India), Hutchison Telecom (Hong Kong), KTF (Sth Korea), DoCoMo (Japan), Indosat (Indonesia) and StarHub (Singapore) – announced that they have formed an alliance called "Asia-Pacific...

Boingo has signed roaming deals with SFR (France) and Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), adding some 300 hotspots in France and 900 hotspots in Taiwan to its roaming system. To date, the Boingo Roaming System consists of more than 30,000 hot spots around the...

Iran is to license a 3rd GSM nationwide mobile operator. The two current operators are MCI and Irancell. There are also 3 local GSM operators in cities of Teheran, Esfahan and the island of Kish. Digitel (Philippines) plans to invest some $200m in 2006...

Brazil: the number of residential internet users in Brazil reached 14m in March. SFR (France) reported a total registered customer base of 17.3m (+8%) at the end of March, of which 1.35m are 3G. ARPU decreased 2% in past 12 months to $49.2. Mobile data...

Verisign reported $374m in revenues (down 4%) with earnings of $16m, down 68%. SFR (France) reports 2.9% increase in 1Q06 proforma revenues to $2.6bn. Teliasonera (Sweden) posts $489m in 1Q06 net profit (+16%) on sales increasing 6% to $2.9bn. EBITDA...

Cramer has appointed Peter Hurst as CMO.

Several lessons can be drawn from vendors and operators announcements this week. The telecom market is still healthy, be it on the services side with growth ranging from +5% to +20%, or on the solution side with growth ranging from 20% to 35%. On the...

According to Strategy Analytics, the mobile phone market can exceed previous record this year. First, the market increased 31% in 1Q06, and it is the first time 1Q shipments exceed 200m (229m according to Strategy Analytics). So the new trend is to reach...