Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Maxis (Malaysia) reports 2005 net profit of $450m, up 4.5%, and an EBITDA of $951m up 10%. MTC (Kuwait) announced record 2005 profits of $637m (+55%)on revenues of $2bn (+80%). Belgacom (Belgium) posted 4% growth rate in 2005 net earnings at €959m, while...

SFR (France) decreases the number of directors, shorten the decision making process, outs Pierre Bardon from the executive committee and gives him a new role in PR. Frank Esser, its CEO, re-organizes the company into three businesses and an executive...

Digital Music Forum 28/02-01/03 2006 New York www.digitalmusicforum.com WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatar www.itu.int CeBIT 2006 9-15/03 2006 Hannover Germany http://www.cebit.de/ Spring 2006 VON 14-17/03 2006 San Jose http://pulver.com/von...

Mobile infrastructure market A new report from Dell'Oro reveals that the worldwide mobile infrastructure equipment market grew 7% in 2005 to $40.1bn. In 4Q05, the market grew 8% driven by strong sales of WCDMA and GSM-based equipment. WCDMA sales amounted...

Optical transport market In the previous Telcoflash issue (N99), we presented Ovum-RHK forecast on this market. Today, Dell'Oro unveiled its own results: the worldwide Optical Transport market grew 22% in 2005 to $8.4bn. Alcatel, Nortel, Huawei and Lucent...

A few set of market information released this week: According to PayPal/ eBay, more than 100m accounts in 55 countries are using Paypal for e-commerce. The CDMA Group announced there were 15m CDMA2000 users in Caribbean and Latin America in Sept. 2005....

IBM plans to invest $1bn in financial intelligence (mainly detect frauds in financial trasactions and link disparate financial databases) for governments and businesses, in the next three years. IBM succeeded in producing 30-nanometer-wide chip circuit,...

Alcatel has consolidated its second position on the IP aggregation router with more than 25% market share, according to Synergy Research. Alcatel has more than 100 customers in 50 countries. Alcatel said it has formed a partnership with IBM allowing the...

ANADIGICS introduced two new multi-mode, multi-band power amplifiers (Pas), integrating an IMT-band WCDMA power amplifier with quad-band GSM/GPRS capabilities. Qualcomm is pushing its FLO (Forward Link Only) technology with the standardisation process...

Samsung will supply triple play infrastructure WiMAX and ADSL 2+ equipment to Croatian fixed telephony operator H1. Motorola is deploying its MOTOwi4 Canopy solution to help Philippine' s SMART launch a wireless DSL network . Alcatel won a €25m communications-based...