Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Golden Telecom (Russia), now part of Vimpelcom , reports strong results with 2007 net income at $153m (+78.5%) on revenues of $1.3bn (+52%). CANTV (Venezuela) said its 4Q07 net profit fell 57% to $77m and its 2007 net profit fell 9% to $50m. Hutchinson...

FCC : a success for the 700 MHz auction in the US, with almost $20bn in revenues collected in 261 rounds, 214 applicants of which over 100 received spectrum. The big winners are Verizon Wireless and ATT Mobility spending over 2/3 of the total revenues...

Eric Besson is the French State Secretary to the Digital Economy Development. Two more Board members are leaving Sprint Nextel : Keith Bane (ex Motorola) and Linda Koch Lorimer (Yale University) would not ask for re-election. Vodafone will streamline...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, the worldwide number of IPTV customers increased to over 12m at the end of 2007. 57% were in Western Europe. France accumulated 5m subscribers, the US about 1m as well as China....

Apple announced that over 100k iPhone SDK (development kit) were downloaded in the four days following its launch. It also launched iFund to stimulate iPhone and iTouch applications development. Best developments will be granted a jackpot. $100m are available...

NexWave introduces mobile TV and digital audio over WiMAX solutions, using its MXtv solution. ALU will integrate NextWave' s MXtv technology into its WiMAX portfolio. It is a second important win for NextWave after Huawei. Airspan has signed a non-exclusive...

Rumor circulating: Asian mobile phone makers may be in talks with Motorola about possible partnerships. Ericsson is faster than rivals to announce infrastructure and device platforms for deployment in the 700MHz band. It also supports MBMS (Multimedia...

Ericsson is supplying OTE (Greece) with IPTV infrastructure, systems integration and service operations such as VOD. Huawei secures optical access equipment (SmartAX MA5600T series) procurement from China Netcom. Airspan will expand Tricom' s WiMAX network...

NSN will deploy its location based system LBS into Telkomsel' s network (Indonesia), and will supply Fastweb (Italy) with MVNE (mobile virtual network enabler) technology. Huawei is providing USB keys E270 and Express Card E870 for 7.2Mbit/s HSDPA services....

Canada plans to introduce a new national operator. The auction is to begin on 27 May 2008. France Telecom/ Viaccess buys Orca Interactive for €14m. Orca is an IPTV supplier and will fit into FT' s IPTV strategy. NTT plans to sell its 35% stake in Sri...