Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Vodafone reports almost 180m proportionate customer base, of which 9.1 3G subscribers. CTC (Chile) announced 314k broadband customers, up 56%, at the end of 2005. USA have an estimated 195m mobile phone user base, and this could reach 240m by 2009. Uralsvyazinform...

KDDI (Japan) reported a 26% drop in 4Q05 earnings at $493m. Revenues increased 5% to $6.6bn. KDDI maintained its guidance for its fiscal year (March) in profit, but lifted its revenue forecast by 2%. SK Telecom (S. Korea) recorded 4Q05 earnings of $457m...

Sonus announced the appointment of industry veteran, Howard Janzen, to the Company's Board of Directors. Portugal Telecom appoints Henrique Granadeiro as CEO. Conexant CEO, Matt Rhodes, will leave he company in June. Nokia proposed Keijo Suila be elected...

“ Mobile DTV Alliance” has been launched by four leading vendors, Nokia, Motorola, Intel and Texas Instrument. Its goal is to promote broadcasting instead of streaming. With streaming, TV transmission uses mobile operator networks and they will be rapidly...

China approved TD-SCDMA China' s MII approved the TD-SCDMA standard, clearing the way for 3G wireless service in the market. It is believed that a TD-SCDMA license first will be issued to China, then other 3G licenses could come several months later....

According to Visiongain, the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament would generate $6.3bn in mobile revenue with text-based services and downloads. Booz Allen Hamilton forecasts that 60% of European households would be digital TV enabled by 2010. According...

Beceem Communications is the first IC manufacturer to sell a IEEE 802.16e-enabled mobile WiMAX chip set. Broadcom is offering products designed to comply with the IEEE 802.11n draft specification. Ericsson completes the acquisition of Marconi. The European...

Broadcom has bought Sandburst Corp., a specialist in the design and development of scalable packet switching and routing systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Siemens and Avaya separately signed collaborative agreements with IBM on systems and software marketed with...

Ericsson has signed a pan-European mobile music agreement with EMI to feed its Personalized Music Portal with more than 200k full-track downloads and 12k ring tones. Nokia says that it is adding support for Lotus Notes and Domino to its push email platform....

Lucent will upgrade the pan-Asian EAC submarine cable network (owned by Asia Netcom/ China Netcom) with its LambdaUnite multi-service switch (MSS) platform.