Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Uganda (Africa) should fully liberalize the telecom sector by 2010. France currently has about 2,8m unbundled lines (+74%) of which 2,2m are partially unbundled. But ARCEP (the French regulator) found that deregulation only touches 54% of the French population....

Magyar Telekom plans to reach 600k ADSL subscribers in 2006 (+100%) and invest $230m, mainly funded by a long-term loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). India plans to develop broadband connectivity and looks for WiMAX to compensate its limited...

NTL has made another bid on Virgin Mobile at about $1,6bn (up 15%). The two companies are in talks, but the main shareholder, Richard Branson, could receive less than other shareholders. In return, however, he would become the largest shareholder in NTL....

India started 2006 with 835,000 broadband subscribers. Orange has 300k 3G subscribers in the UK and maintains its target for 1.5 million 3G users by the end of the year. Colombia' s mobile phones doubled to 22m in 2005 (penetration of 50%), with Comcel...

Mobile One (Singapore) reports 4Q05 net profit of $203m, up 13%, and revenues of $431m, up 3,5%. M1 ended the year with 1.3m subscribers. Yahoo! reports 4Q05 revenues of $1,5bn (+39%) and earnings of $683m (up 83%) including a $310m exceptional income....

Tele2 appoints Anders Olsson as new executive VP Sales & Marketing. Cisco named Susan L. Bostrom as its chief marketing officer, replacing James Richardson, who was appointed as senior vice president of Cisco's commercial business.

MidemNet Forum - 21-22/01 2006 Cannes (France) www.midem.com Digital Commerce Summit 31/01 2006 New York www.digitalcommercesummit.com 3GSM World Congress 2006 - 13-16/02 2006 Barcelona (Spain) www.3gsmworldcongress.com Digital Music Forum 28/02-01/03...

Answers to FMS According to Analysys, the growing trend of fixed-mobile substitution is not a fatality. In a new report, Analysys give ways for reducing or even reversing the substitution of fixed lines with mobile services. Defensive tactics, such as...

Direct access! Motorola and Nokia phones will be quipped to access directly Google and/ or Yahoo! own mobile services through their respective icons and one-click access. Under the Motorola-Google deal, the first Motorola phones with Google icons will...

European M&A statu s 2006 could continue on the 2005 trend. Alignment, IPOs, takeover or strategic alliances will continue to feed companies announcements. Already some speculation arose (BT/ ITV or FT/ C&W), while some former rumors continue (NTL/ Virgin...