Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

India now has 48.5m fixed subscribers and 71.5m mobile users for a total of 120m. Ecuadorian mobile telephony reaches 5.8 m users in November. Total Access Communication (DTAC), Thailand, said it added 125k new mobile-phone subscribers in November, up...

Sistema (Russia) reports 9-month financial results: net income was $434m, up 29%; telecom revenue grew 28% to $4.3bn; EBITDA rose 25% to $2,3bn, but EBITDA margin fell 2 points to 42,5%.

Telefonica has appointed Luis Lada as chairman of its domestic fixed-line unit Telefonica de Espana, and intends to keep Peter Erskine in its position of O2 CEO. KPN (NL) appointed Eelco Blok as operating officer of its fixed-line division. Polish Polkomtel...

WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatar www.itu.int PTC'06 15/1, 2006 - January 18, 2006 Hawaii, USA Fixed Mobile Convergence 19-20/01 , 2006 - Bangkok, Thailand 3G Mobile World Forum 2006 23-26/01, 2006 - Tokyo, Japan TelecomFinance...

- According to In-Stat, location-based services (LBS) may finally realize its potential in the APAC region in the upcoming five years. The market is expected to reach $772m by 2010, from $353m in 2004. - According to Forrester Research, 25% of UK users...

Chiaro, the core router company , may disappear in coming weeks. HP has completed its acquisition of Peregrine Systems, an IT asset and service management software company. Nokia is to locate its new Global Networks Solutions Center at Chennai, India....

Fujitsu has transferred production of a key element of its Flashwave 4500 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) from Japan to its manufacturing facility in Richardson, Texas.

UTStarcom and China Putian signed partnership in 3G business. UTStarcom has recently slashed 50% of its 3G department (mainly on WCDMA), while the rest staff (about 300p) was divided into two teams - one and majority turned to the TD-SCDMA sector, and...

Nortel has deployed its Optical Ethernet network platform to support "triple play" cable services including VoIP, VOD, and Internet for German cable operator Unity Media GmbH. CSG Systems will provide billing and customer care solutions to digital TV...

Siemens has received a €59m order from the Saudi Railways Organization to upgrade more than 600 miles of the Saudi Arabian railway network infrastructure. Samsung will supply Vodafone KK (Japan) with 3G phones. Ericsson has signed expansion contract for...