Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

China Telecom plans to spin off its telecom and engineering division to raise funds in the $200-400m range through an IPO. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) selected Flag Telecom to provide 2 x 10 Gbit/sec wavelengths scientific network (TANET).

Hutchison may be interested in partnering with Thailand' s mobile operator True Move, but first need to find an arrangement (strong disagreement over the valuation of the stake) with its concession provider, CAT Telecom. Sprint Nextel added content from...

World: according to Exemus, the total number of mobile subscribers worldwide at the end of 2005 grew to 2.13 bn (+21%). Pakistan Telecom has 5m mobile subscribers (Ufon) and 5m fixed line users. Venezuela: 12.5m mobile subscribers, according to regulator...

True (Thailand) reported 2005 revenues of $1bn (+37%) and an EBITDA of $385m (up 33%). lowered its overall mobile revenue expectations. Vodafone lowered its overall FY2007 mobile revenue growth expectations by 1-2.5 points to 5%-6.5% due to increasing...

Nortel named Joseph Flanagan its new vice president of Order Management. C&W aims to shed up to half of its workforce (about 2,500p ) within five years. Lucent names John Kritzmacher as CFO to replace Frank D'Amelio. LogicaCMG hires Richard Grove as Group...

Cisco new strategy Cisco was mainly focused up to now delivering good products/ solutions on the growing markets, and we know the success of this strategy. But it recently acknowledged that what was missing in their portfolio was a systems integration...

Telcoflash is proud to deliver this week its hundredth issue. 100th Issue I did not think, when starting two years ago, reaching number 100. I did it and I am proud of it. I am ready to continue as long as you are still interested and regularly visit...

A few set of market information released this week: The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the TIA Association have announced new US estimates for FTTH deployments, currently passing over 3.6m U.S. Homes (+ 1m in four months). According to Analysys,...

Cellcos turn to mobile TV Cellcos (all over the world) are trying to shift current mobile video applications from gadgets for the tech-savvy to mass market applications, i.e. affordable, easy to use and widely distributed. The road should be quite long,but...

Mobile infra market share According to Dell'Oro, Ericsson maintained its market leadership in 2005 with about 30% market share (vs 29%+ in 2004), followed by Nokia with 13.1% (down almost 2 points), Siemens with 12% and targeting to overtake Nokia, Lucent...