Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Vodafone agreed to purchase additional 9% of Kenyan Safaricom, and bring its stake to 49%. Vodafone launches first HSDPA offering in Germany, in Portugal, Sprint Nextel always planning to deploy a broadband mobile service using the 2.5 GHz spectrum by...

Africa passed 113m mobile subscribers by the end of 2005, and could increase at a CAGR of 22% to reach 378m users by the end of 2011. Current penetration is about 14% and could reach 42% by 2011. DT sees 11.5m DSL broadband customers in Germany in 2007,...

Telekom Austria reported 2005 revenues of €4.4bn, up 8%, operating income of €620m (+37%), an EBITDA of € 1.76bn (+12%) and net income of €417m (+83.5%). Bakrie Telecom (Indonesia) posted 2005 sales of $40m (+34%), net loss of $15.7m (+52%). Iliad (France)...

Portugal Telecom announced that Henrique Granadeiro will be nominated as the company's new chairman and CEO at the next annual general meeting. Chris Gent, Vodafone, is to quit the honorary position of Life President.

ATT- Bellsouth ATT will take over Bellsouth in an announced $67bn deal. The bag is impressive. In twenty years, the deregulation process has been partly reversed with four of the first seven Baby Bells again federated under the ATT umbrella. Successively,...

Mobile TV ? It is a hot topic, so do not wonder there are a lot of stories now. Through many announcements of planned mobile TV services and market researches, the current question is: Is there a market for mobile TV? Lest us start with recent market...

OFC/NFOEC 2006 Optimism is back at OFC/NFOEC after dark years following the bubble burst. Even if no innovative products were on display, major topics were around FTTH, ROADMs and 40Gbit/s, and a quite significant market recovery (+20%) in 2005. Broadband...

Media distributors or media content providers dilemma? It is the dilemma telcos are facing to. On one side, it is tempting for telcos to add content to their provisioning business, and vertically integrate the media markets, but the drawback is that it...

WiFi impact on health Two Canadian Universities have decided to limit or forbid the deployment of WiFi networks on their campus, because of concerns on student health and network security. They have decided to deploy cable networks inside the Universities....

Health care issues again After concerns about brain, tests, now it is the turn of human proteins. Finland's radiation watchdog will study the effects of mobile phones on human proteins by conducting direct tests on people’s skin. Small areas of skin will...