Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Microsoft will provide its Windows Mobile OS to DoCoMo. HTC will manufacture the Windows Mobile-based FOMA 3G handsets for DoCoMo. It is a gid change in DoCoMo' s strategy to control the development of its phones, and a move to Windows Mobile could signal...

Lucent reported, as expected, a 4Q05 net loss of $104m (or 2 cents per share), partly due to a $278m bankruptcy lawsuit payment (Winstar), on revenues down 12% to $2bn. Excluding the exceptional Winstar payment, Lucent should have reported a net income...

In contrast with most carriers' strategy, Sprint Nextel is planning to spin off its wireline business, New Local Company. It will rename the wireline company in the first quarter of 2006 and spin off the subsidiary in the second quarter. The new company...

Time Warner plans to invest $200m in its AOL UK unit. AOL UK provides unbundled DSL lines to its customers. Verizon Business is the new Verizon Communications unit, formed with the merger of MCI and ex-Verizon Enterprise unit, to sophisticated IT, data,...

Chilean Sixbell plans to become the first MVNO to operate in Brazil in 2006. Vodafone Portugal introduces mobile TV service. America Movil has registered its America Movil and Telcel brands in Costa Rica, opening the way to potential future operations...

India: 76m mobile subscribers and 49m main lines, the third-largest mobile market in Asia, trailing only China and Japan in customer numbers. India plan to have 200m mobile subs. by the end of 2007. Bharti (India) currently has 16.3m mobile subscribers....

Vodafone reported better than expected customer and revenue growth, and reiterated its fiscal 2006 guidance for proportionate mobile revenue growth of 6%-9%. Its EBITDA should be almost flat. Vodafone also confirmed its 45% stake in Verizon is not (now)...

3 UK announced the appointment of Bruno Duarte as its UK Strategy Director. Tekelec named former Nortel executive Frank Plastina president, CEO and board member.

Happy Birthday Telcoflash Telcoflash was launched in January 2004. Facing a rapid success in just few months, I decided to post information on the Internet in January 2005. So it is a double birthday! Long life to Telcoflash!

50% of the world population connected by 2009 According to Portio Research, mobile subscriber base would reach almost 4bn by 2011 (from 2bn in 2005). It is a big growth, and by 2011, almost 50% of the world population could theoretically have a telephone...