Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Aperto Networks has raised $20m in a new equity financing. Ericsson reports 2007 sales of €20bn and net profit of €3.3bn at the annual shareholding meeting. Ericsson said it accounts for over 800 networks, 1bn subscribers worldwide. Huawei expects to...

The EC decided it will OK in-flight calls. For that, it will recommend using GSM 1800 MHz technology for ensuring interoperability among parties, but leaves airliners to install picocells on planes and define guidelines for “good behavior” in flight....

ATT has appointed John Donovan as its CTO, replacing Chris Rice , who is appointed VP of ATT' s Shared Services division.. Dave Dorman , a former ATT CEO, will become next Motorola ' s non executive chairman, when current chairman Ed Zander retires from...

The Latam mobile market is very competitive, and, either by subscriber base or by net additions, can rival with other markets. The top 10 mobile operators account for a combined 240m subscriber base, but behind, there were lots of small operators with...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Samsung, it held a 31% market share in the French mobile phone market, ahead of Nokia with 24% in February. CTIA comments: LTE deployment could be sooner rather than later. Commercial deployments...

US : CTIA claims 255m mobile subscribers at the end of 2007. Mobily (Saudi Arabia) had over 11m mobile subscribers at the end of 2007. Germany : 8.7m 3G users at the end of 2007.

Motorola: Happy Birthday it is the 35 th anniversary of the first cellular phone call (3 rd April 1973). Videocon (India) has expressed interest in Motorola' s mobile phone unit. Videocon is already manufacturing consumer electronics and home appliances....

Huawei has signed an agreement with Etisalat (UAE). Ericsson has inked a contract with Far EasTone (Taiwan) for HSPA expansion. It will deliver its mobile softswitch solution to Telstra (Australia), as well as to Celcom (Malaysia). It will be the sole...

Verizon Wireless announced it will launch its future LTE network in the 700 MHz spectrum (C Block licenses including open access provisions) around 2010. ATT Mobility also claims victory in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, adding it avoided any extra regulations...

RIM expects to double its revenues to $2.3bn in FYQ1, beating analysts' consensus. Revenues breakdown would be 81% for handsets, 14% for service and 3% for software. In FYQ4, RIM reported revenues of $1.9bn, up 100%. RIM added 2.2m BlackBerry customers...