Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Ericsson will provide WAP billing solutions to ZapDance (UK), and HSDPA solution to Vodafone Germany. KPN has selected Huawei as the key 3G UMTS core network provider. Lucent announced contracts with Taiwan Mobile for optical networking platform; with...

Qualcomm increased 2Q06 guidance on strong demand for modem chips. ADVA announced 31% Q4 revenue growth to €36m and 29% 2005 revenue growth to €131m. 2005 net income declined 6% to €11m.

Thus (UK) could be ready to bid as much as $5.2bn for struggling C&W. Singapore plans to be a totally wireless country by the year 2015. As part of the plan, a Wi-Fi mesh could cover the entire state first, then complement with WiMAX . The NGN network...

DT will invest $200m in 2006 in its fixed-line network in Germany. Golden Telecom (Russia) plans to build a 5,000 access nodes WiFi network in Moscow.

3UK celebrates its third birthday. With some 4m 3G subscribers, a 6,500-site network covering about 99% of the country, 3UK is one of the fastest mobile network roll-out in the UK. Happy Birthday, 3UK! TOT (Thailand) will buy CAT Telecom' s stakes in...

Infonetics reported that the number of DSL subscribers jumped 27% in 2005 to almost 126m. Bharti Tele-Ventures (India) had a subscriber base of 18.5m (+6%) as of the end of February, while Hutchison Essar (India) had 14.5m (up 6%); BSNL had 16.1m (up...

Hutchison Telecom Australia reported 2005 net loss of $405m (vs loss of $ 511m) on revenues of $561m (up 45%). Hutchison Telecom posts 2005 net profit of $99m (vs loss of $4m) on revenues of $3.1bn (+63%). Telecom Italia reported 2005 net earnings of...

Vodafone' s CMO Peter Bamford will leave the company. Stan Sigman, Cingular CEO, is expected to remain in its position after the eventual merger between ATT and Bellsouth. Nokia has appointed Peter Bayer as general manager for its Chilean unit. Juniper...

BT as a pray? BT is rumored to be the target of a group of investors. The deal, if real, could be around $35bn.

ATT- Bellsouth ATT will take over Bellsouth in an announced $67bn deal. The merger would create, if approved, a mammoth of 310,000+ workers, $150bn in capitalization, be the US main telecom operator combining ATT (SBC+ ATT) with Cingular and Bellsouth,...