Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Hutchison Australia has announced that its Orange and 3 services will merge under a single brand. TIM Hellas has announced it has completed the acquisition of rival Q-Telecom for €350m. Spain' s telecom regulator CMT has decided to allow three more players...

Etisalat (UAE) had about 4.5m mobile connections (+23%) at the end of 2005. Virgin Mobile UK had 4.4m subscribers at the end of 2005. Africa : 113.5m mobile subscribers at end-2005, according to Portio Research. Bangladesh : expected mobile subscriber...

Google reports 4Q05 revenues of $1.9bn and net income of $372m. For the year, revenues were $ 6.1bn (+92%) and net profit was $1.5bn (+267%). Etisalat (UAE) announced 2005 revenues of $3.5bn, up 23%, and earnings of $1.2bn, up 25%. Bell Canada reports...

C&W plan to cut about 600 jobs in Europe of which 450 in the UK. Vodafone has announced that deputy CEO Sir Julian Horn-Smith will step down in July. Polkomtel (Poland) named former Finance Minister Jaroslaw Bauc as its new CEO. Loral' s CEO and Chairman...

3GSM World Congress 2006 - 13-16/02 2006 Barcelona (Spain) www.3gsmworldcongress.com 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...

It is in the air Last month the news that Bellsouth has plans to charge service providers for quality of service, was widely ignored. As I thought it was first to test the market reaction, I did not care about too much. Too stupid, the idea was in the...

WCDMA/EDGE networks According to a GSA survey, 61 WCDMA and EDGE combined networks (vs 23 last year) are or will be deployed, on a total of 100 WCDMA networks. This highlights that mobile operators are coming back to EDGE as they realize that deploying...

Nokia strategy Nokia will support the 3GPP standard MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Standard) to enable streaming video over 3G networks, while having a major role in DVB-H broadcast technology. While thinking that DVB-H would emerge as the main...

A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, Latin America mobile phone sales reached 105m last year (+34%). Yankee Group founds that there are about 13.4m US mobile subscribers (+200%) with MVNOs by the end of 2005. The figure...

Siemens Ventures has made a strategic investment in G2 Microsystems, a developer of integrated circuits for the Mobile Resource Management (MRM) market.