Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

UTStarcom signed a new deal with China Netcom for IPTV deployment in Harbin, China. Lucent will provide support for Telefonica' s IPTV service roll-outs worldwide, and Ethernet solutions to KPN (NL). ADC has been selected by Open Access deploying its...

Foundry Networks announced net income of $11.4m on revenues of $114m, compared with net income of $10m on revenues of $84.6m. Avici Systems posted record quarterly revenues of $21.4m (of which 75%+ from AT&T) and a net loss of $5m. Juniper reported a...

French ISP Free is the first in France to offer a WiFi-GSM bundled service, after being the first to introduce triple-play services in the market. It targets the 40% mobile calls made from subscriber's home. Belgacom, Telenet, Mobistar, ALE& Brutele and...

China Mobile was given as a potential bidder for Millicom International Cellular, offering around $4bn, but the company denied any such move. Sprint Nextel bought another affiliate, UbiquiTel, for $1.3bn. Chile' s Smartcom won the auction of mobile spectrum...

China Mobile added 4.3m users in March to reach a subscriber base of 260.6m at the end of March. Bellsouth currently has 19.8m access lines, after a decline of 1.2% in 1Q06.. Mobistar (Belgium) had 2.96m mobile subscribers at the end of March. EarthLink...

China Mobile reported 1Q06 revenues up 19% to $8.1bn, net profit of $1.8bn and an EBITDA up 21% to $4.5bn. EBITDA margin rose to 55%. Bellsouth announced a 26% fall in 1Q06 net income to $784m, while sales remained almost flat at $5.2bn. Excluding a gain...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, fixed-mobile convergence services will generate $28bn in revenue by 2011. It estimates that there would be 92m subscribers to converged services by 2011, 3% of overall global subscriptions,...

According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue would likely triple to $15.5bn by 2009, from $4.9bn in 2005 and $2.6bn in 2004. Carrier Ethernet switches and routers would account for 32% of the metro Ethernet equipment...

Motorola is considering buying Siemens' telecom equipment business, as a way to get the profit-bearing Mobile Network division of Com. It bought Orthogon Systems (Piping Hot Networks) to extend its broadband wireless reach. Motorola was already a distributor...

Siemens Communications launched HiPath Wireless Manager Advanced (HWMA), a modular extension for the Siemens HiPath Wireless line of WLAN solutions.