Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

EVN Telecom (Electricity of Vietnam subsidiary) is working with Qualcomm to manufacture WLL and CDMA based mobile phones. Nokia is to expand its mobile infrastructure R&D center in Sichuan, China.

Nortel will deploy its cable VoIP solution for 'Triple Play' Service in Western Europe for UPC Broadband. Siemens has been selected for the delivery, installation, integration and maintenance of VoIP technology for UPC Broadband in Eastern Europe. Cisco...

Ericsson has been selected by 3 Scandinavia to provide the Ericsson Mobile Organizer (EMO) push email.

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...

Globacom (Nigeria) plans to invest $700m in big Indian telecom companies. Globacom has already invested $2.5bn in Nigeria. Irish Eircom has confirmed it is the target of a takeover bid worth €2.4bn. France Telecom is testing grid computing with Fujitsu....

Intelsat is launching a new satellite-based content-delivery and-management service for IPTV video service launched by telcos. The service is called “Ampiage”. France Telecom has lost 950k customers so far, with a 60% increase in number of defectors in...

CelTel (from Kuwait' s MTC) would buy 65% of Nigeria’s Vmobile for about $1 bn, and have an option for the remaining 35%. on equivalent conditions, Embarq (Sprint Nextel wireline business spinoff) plans to launch mobile services using a MVNO model on...

Vmobile (Nigeria) has more than 5m mobile subscribers. Celtel (Nigeria) currently has more than 15m mobile subscribers in 14 African countries. There were over 3.1m unbundled local loop lines in France at the end of March. Indosat (Indonesia) reports...

Indosat (Indonesia) posted 2005 net profit of $182m, down 0.6%. Maroc Telecom reported $585m in 1Q06 revenues (+12%), of which $363m in mobile services (+16%) and $341m in fixed revenues (+8%). Yahoo announced strong increase (+34%) in net revenues to...

MTS (Russia) has named Dr Leonid Melamed as its new president. Nortel named Lauren Flaherty chief marketing officer, replacing Clent Richardson. Verizon Communications hired Andrea Fant-Hobbs as vice president of brand management. Motorola plans to to...