Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Amoi (Chinese handset manufacturer) will supply 3G cellphones to Orange( France). Ericsson is providing Swiss Mobile and 3 Italia with HSDPA equipment Nortel got Baikalwestcom's GSM network expansion to EDGE in Eastern Siberia.

Sycamore reported 4Q05 net income of $5m on revenues of $21m, deceiving shareholders. The share slipped 6% to $4.7.

France Telecom revamps its "Video à la carte” service into the new "24/24 vidéo" service; it is the new name of FT' s VOD services. A single platform will be used for the service, be it on fixed broadband with Wanadoo, or mobile with Orange. The service...

Japan' s space agency said it will launch the MTSAT-2R weather and navigation satellite this week. Vietnam is considering launching its own communication satellite in 2008. It also targets making Internet access available to 35% of its population by 2010....

MTN (S. Africa) could open HSDPA service this year, said its general manager. Telekom Malaysia bought Thailand's Samart 49% stake in Cambodia Samart Communications (Casacom). NTL (UK) is poised to finally takeover Virgin Mobile, paving the way for it...

Brazil: Vivo is the mobile market leader with 34% market share, followed by TIM Brazil with 23.5% and Claro (Telmex Brazil) with 21.5%, Telemar with 12.3%, Telemig and Amazônia Celular at 5% and Brazil Telecom GSM at 2.5%. GSM accounts for 46m users,...

Reliance Communications (India) reported a net profit of $70m on revenues of $749m. They are first quarterly numbers after a contentious split from conglomerate Reliance Industries and no comparable figures are available from last year. The telecom group...

Nortel has appointed George Riedel (ex Juniper Strategist) as Chief Strategy Officer.

3GSM Congress wrap-up More than 50,000 visitors (up 42%) and about 1,000 exhibitors (also 40% up) were in Barcelona (Spain) for this thirteen edition of 3GSM World Congress. We have selected a bunch of most important topics developed in Barcelona this...

Instant Messaging initiative The GSM Association has launched an IM initiative to reach interoperability agreements between 15 mobile phone operators, including China Mobile, France Telecom, Telefonica , TeliaSonera, Telecom Italia Mobile, Turkcell, Vodafone...