Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

FT named Gervais Pelissier as its new CFO, replacing Michel Combes who will leave FT. Louis-Pierre Wenes has been appointed head of French operations, and in charge of the Group transformation. 3Com appoints R. Scott Murray president and CEO. Nokia could...

Mobile data must succeed US mobile data revenues were about $8.5bn in 2005, just a portion (circa 7%) of the global mobile services estimated at about $124bn. With mobile voice revenues on the decline, due to competitive price pressure, mobile operators...

Report on VOIP Quality Keynote Systems has studied VOIP quality, with a focus on the reliability and the sound quality of VOIP calls. Sound quality is important as a recent Harris Interactive survey found that 52% of respondents named call quality as...

Mobiles phones market share and predictions With about 800m units sold in 2005, up 19%, Strategy Analytics forecasts that the market could grow another 15% in 2006 and pass over 1bn units in 2007. Nokia remains the market leader with about 34%, followed...

Digital home services to take off in Europe According to Booz Allen Hamilton, digital home services (TV, broadband Internet and telephony) are likely to take off this year. Competition for the digital home will be fierce, with telcos and cablecos operating...

WE Cellular Market challenging in 2006 Strategy Analytics warn that mobile operators in Western Europe should be prepared for another challenging year in 2006. After declining ARPAU (average revenue per active user) in 2005 by 1%, it predicts that ARPAU...

Mobile portals in Western Europe IDC announced that the mobile portal market will increase to about 74m users in 2010 in Western Europe with a CAGR of 10%. Mobile portals are important, because it is the key element for inviting users to download mobile...

China 3G expected road According to Norson Consulting, China could issue 3G licenses in 1H06, and users could be 15m by year-end, to grow to 125m by 2010. China Mobile is expected to receive a WCDMA license, and could have 50m 3G users in 2010; China...

European SME survey According to BNP Paribas Lease Group, France and Spain are about at the same level of investments in ICT with 28%, with UK following with 27%, Germany 23%, Italy behind with 17%. 89% of SMEs are connected broadband, vs 75% in 2004....

Dell'Oro forecasts that the market for Optical Transport equipment would approach $11bn by 2010. It also forecasts that the 802.11n WLAN equipment market should exceed $1bn in 2007. According to KMI, total FTTP market for equipment, cable, and apparatus...