Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Leap Wireless International appointed Colin Holland to senior VP of engineering and technical operations, Jeff Nachbor to senior VP of financial operations, and Greg Post to senior VP of field sales and field operations. Teliasonera will cut around 2,900...

This first step is the right one. Excessive 3G IPR licensing and the dominant position of very few patent holders have hampered and delayed the development of the 3G technology. So vendors do not want to duplicate the same situation with 4G. Seven vendors...

FT announced this week a bid worth €34bn to takeover Teliasonera, one of the largest takeover bid in Europe. Up to now, FT permanently repeated its strategy was to grow in emerging markets, and it has recently bought assets in Middle East and Africa....

Nokia reported 1Q08 revenues of €12.7bn in the quarter, up 28%, and a net profit of €1.2bn, up 25%, but below expectations by €150m. The operating margin increased over 1p to 14.7%, but down sequentially 1.2p. With such numbers, most companies would be...

At the end of 4Q07, there were almost 710m mobile users in Europe (including Ukraine and Turkey). The top ten MNOs accounted for almost 40% of this total with about 280m mobile subscribers. The top 10 ranking is made by decreasing size with TIM in Italy...

Worldwide PC sales amounted to almost 70m units in 1Q08, up 14.5%, and the growth was driven by laptops. But sales began to be impacted by the economical weakness in the North American market that lost two points in market share to 23% and only grew by...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Nokia, recycled mobile phones are still several years away. But 40%-60% of the metal components within Nokia' s phones are already recycled materials. Infonetics predicts that the worldwide...

India : Bharti Airtel added 2.3m new subscribers in March, while BSNL added more than 1.6m and Vodafone Essar added just below 1.6m. Idea Cellular added 1.1m in the month. The mobile subscriber base is now respectively: 62m for Bharti, 44.1m for Vodafone...

Qualcomm invest in fleet management in buying all the assets of Spanish Ronda Grupo Consultor. Sagem Mobiles (France) plans to outsource its customer care services to Anovo. TechFaith Wireless (China) announced it will develop and manufacture low-cost...

NSN is providing BH Telecom (Bosnia – Herzegovina) with a new fiber optic backbone network. Proxim will provide its WiMAX portfolio to MSS Povolzhie in Russia, a Megafon subsidiary. Aptilo Networks has been selected to deploy a national WiMAX network...