Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Siemens' Comm business Siemens is discussing the possible sale of its main communications unit, Communications or Comm. The unit is the largest unit in Siemens, with about €13bn in annual turnover, and employing some 55,000 people. In 1Q06, the unit reported...

Nokia reported strong increase in 1Q06 net income with a 21% increase to €1bn, and sales rose 29% to €9.5bn, driven by mobile phones and multimedia sales. Its Enterprise unit reported a fall of 39% in sales; its Network unit sales rose 19% to €1.7bn (mainly...

Motorola posts strong revenue increase to $10bn in the quarter (+22%), a record in handset shipment with more than 46m units (+61%) and a market share of 21%+ in the handset market. Profit, however, declined 4% to $686m. Mobile devices sales in the fourth...

Ericsson reports solid performance. 1Q06 sales reached €4.2bn, up 24%; the operating income was €755m and the net income was €496m (flat). Gross margin however decreased 5 points to 43%, as well as operating margin to 17%. Margins were hit by Marconi...

Indonesia is starting two major projects to improve its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure -- Universal Service Obligations (USO) Program and National Fiber Optic Backbone (NFOB) Project. With the first USO program, it hopes...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Telecom Trends International, the worldwide handset market revenues reached $117bn in 2005, of which over 60% captured by Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. The research report predicted that...

UMA Services are coming UMA is a wireless, short-distance technology using non-licensed spectrum. Backed by the UMA specifications and the 3GPP, it is becoming a hot demand from telcos and mobile operators, anticipating FMC and IMS deployments. Of course,...

UTStarcom is expanding its presence in the Middle East with the appointment of Abir Hnidi. Ebay is talking to both Microsoft and Yahoo to find an ally against Google.

Lucent has signed a global reseller agreement with World Wide Packets for business and residential FTTP customer premises equipment (CPE) platforms. Fujitsu and Mitsui have jointly established an optical device venture, named QD Laser, focused on quantum...

LG is introducing its new LG-U890, a slim and wide screen music phone equipped with stereo Bluetooth. Samsung has introduced the world' s first 2GByte memory card for mobile phone, targeting the widest possible range of multimedia mobile applications....