Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Accenture reports $215m in its FY1Q06 net income (+10%); $4.2bn in sales (+12%) and $5,5bn in orders. Avanex announced its CY4Q05 revenues could be around $36m, well below the forecast $45m. Even if gross margin is improving, it is unlikely that it could...

BT, Vodafone, O2 and DoCoMo have expressed interest in investing in the Thai telecom market. AOL buys video search startup Truveo, The European regulator has cleared a €28bn deal by Telefonica to buy O2 (mobile operator in the UK) under some conditions....

Microsoft will partner with BSkyB to offer Video-on-demand services. TOT (Thailand) plans to invest around $245m in its fixed-line network in 2006. Telecom Italia and Intel have signed a cooperation agreement to develop broadband applications and services...

NTL- Virgin Mobile are still negotiating but on different registers: Virgin Mobile shareholders want 400p a share, while NTL could offer up to 370p. If no agreement on share price is made rapidly, NTL plans to strike a full brand-licensing deal with the...

Hutchison Whampoa said it has 11m 3G subscribers. Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic) announced 275,000 ADSL subscribers (+175%). SFR (France) says its 3G clients base surpass 1m, aiming now for 2.5m by end-2006. Australia has 2.5m broadband customers, according...

Rogers Communications (Canada) announced slower new subscribers growth (-18%), but reduced reduced its churn rate (most of that change came on the postpaid side), France Telecom has reduced again its revenue forecast for end-2006; it has trimmed its guidance...

Nortel named former GE executive Don McKenna as its new vice president of Global Manufacturing Services. Bruce Claflin, 3Com CEO for five years, will retire. Heinz Sundt, Telekom Austria CEO, will step down on 23 May, and will be replaced by Boris Nemsic...

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...

WiMAX licenses in France: More than 175 companies had deposited files for WiMAX licenses in Oct.05. With the final round starting February 1st, it is expected that about only 50 files will be maintained for acquiring the 2 licenses per region (or a total...

AT&T could be interested by acquiring Echostar (Satellite TV operator) for about $13bn. It was just an enduring rumor in the CES show in Las Vegas last week. Echostar already provides AT&T with its bunch of satellite TV channels. Echostar has about 12m...