Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Will 3G dominate the mobile market? According to Forrester, th answer is YES. By 2010, 60% of Europeans would own a 3G handset. Forrester also predicts GSM-only handsets will disappear in the next two years, and pure 2G services would only account for...

Mobile penetration Everyone is interested in numbers, and one of the key items monitored by the mobile industry is market penetration. It is a simple figure used for years, but what does it mean exactly? Nobody knows! Some countries are reporting the...

Microsoft will invest $500m in China over the five next years. Oracle continues its harvest: it bought 360Commerce, a point-of-sale management expert. The purchase will complement the acquisition of Retek, made last year. Oracle is positioning on the...

Motorola will help EarthLink to launch municipal Wi-Fi networks in five cities. Motorola will provide its MOTOwi4 portfolio of products. Galileo consortium received a €950m order for the first four satellites. Tekelec signed OEM agreement with NEC Neva...

ComArch will implement a billing system in Bouygues Telecom (France) network.

Amdocs reported FY1Q06 net income of $75m, up 8,4%, while sales grew 25%. Amdocs expects FY2Q06 revenues to be about $600m. Motorola reports excellent quarter, while revenues are slightly short of Wall Street' s revenue predictions. Profit jumped 83%...

BT plans to launch broadband TV offerings with National Geographic Channel, Nelvana and HIT Entertainment. IPTV and VoD will be provided on a Microsoft software platform via a Philip set-top box.

PLDT (Indonesia) plans to launch services in countries where Filipinos are settled in large numbers. Europe (1,5m), US (3m) and Middle-East (1m) are main targets. Already PLDT has MVNO arrangements in HK and Singapore. Telecom Italia has sold 100% of...

Peru: 5,7m mobile users in 2005, expected to rise 50% in 2006, and reach 10.3m in 2007. China: China Unicom added 1,25m new users bringing its total to 128m customers, of which 95,1m GSM users and 32,7m CDMA subs.. China Mobile added almost 4m new subscribers...

Belgacom confirmed its 2006 forecasts, but several analysts think they are too optimistic. Fastweb (Italy) reports its 4Q05 EBITDA rose 57% to €97m and full year EBITDA reached €305m (up 42%) on sales of €967m, up 34%. Alltel (USA) announced double-digit...