Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Intelsat has secured a contract to provide video distribution to Qualcomm' s MediaFLO USA mobile television broadcast network. DT' s fixed-line unit T-Com (Germany) is loosing around 100,000 customers a month. Magyar Telekom (Hungary) closed the acquisition...

M-Tel (Bulgaria) has increased the coverage of its EDGE network to 9 new cities. Telekom Malaysia is in talks to buy a stake in India' s Spice Telecom 3 Italia' s IPO has been approved by Italy's market watchdog Consob. Lithuania has awarded three 3G...

Connex Vodafone (Romania) has a total customer base of 6,1m, of which 100k 3G users. India finished year 2005 with some 76m mobile subscribers, up 63%. The Taiwanese 3G operators have only signed 500k 3G users despite aggressive marketing and promotions...

KT (S. Korea) reported 4Q05 net profit falling 74% to $106m, while revenues rose 3% to $3bn. Its operating profit fell 7% to $275m. Telstra could announce a drop of 15% in its FY1H06 profit. MTS (Russia) reported 2005 profit of $1.1bn (up 9%) on revenues...

Guy Demuynck, CEO of KPN' s mobile operations, will leave the company as of July 1. Ralph Ballart, head of Project Lightspeed at SBC/ ATT, has joined Alcatel' s IP group. Brazil Telecom plans to cut 6,700 jobs to increase efficiency. Qualcomm announced...

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MVNOs' subscriber base should take off A recent survey of In-Stat reveals that up to 80% of both planned and current cellular subscribers would consider buying service from an MVNO. Coverage, service quality and price are the main drivers for deciding...

Google Talk connected to the PSTN Another threat for telcos is coming from Google Talk, the Google VOIP service opened recently, but now extended to the PSTN world. Through an agreement with a US CLEC, VOIP Inc., VOIP calls on Google Talk can be redirect...

Managed services solutions In past few years, managed services gained momentum, driven by service providers willing to cut capex and operating costs and better mitigating the risks associated with innovation. Lucent, Ericsson and few others were the main...

MVNE bandwagon What is a MVNE first? It is an enabler, a facilitator between the mobile operator that host a mobile service provided by a MVNO that wants to leverage its brand (i.e Virgin Mobile). As the MVNO segment is forecast to rapidly grow, the market...