Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) plans to invest $1.5bn for expanding its fiber-optic network by 2012, of which $1.3bn in MSAN, VDSL2, EPON, ...and $300m in fiber optic gear. Most of networking equipment will be procured from local manufacturers. Energy City...

Softbank (Japan) plans to deploy 3G femtocell technology in October. Sprint Nextel has introduced an HTC smartphone working with EV-DO Rev A. speeds. Yoigo (Teliasonera in Spain) will use Telefonica' s Movistar 2G and 3G networks to cover about 50% of...

Free (France) had 2.9m broadband internet customers. Neuf Cegetel (France) announced 3.2m ADSL subscribers, up 45%, of which 450k new customers in 2007 with organic growth and 550k with the acquisition of Club-Internet. Alice (Telecom Italia in France)...

Iliad/ Free (France) reports solid 2007 results with net profit of €150m (up24%) on revenues up 30% to €1.2bn. EBITDA jumped 35% to €444m. ARPU increased 5% to €36.3. Neuf Cegetel (France) also announced solid 2007 results with revenues of €3.3bn, up...

Telecom Italia ' s domestic fixed services department, Massimo Castelli , resigned. Stu Reed , from Motorola, resigned just a month after stepping aside as CEO of the struggling mobile phone unit. Kevin O'Hara , Level 3 co-founder, president and COO,...

Last week two important news were issued on related matter. The first one is a survey reporting that around 30% (double of 2004 figures) of US SMBs are currently using SaaS solutions (software-as-a -service), and that MBs (medium sized firms 500-999)...

Ovum has published a report on NA operator 4Q07 revenues and spending. In wireline, revenues were flat at $43.8bn, but capex increased by 12.4% to $8.8bn. Capex was driven by broadband (switching and routing as well as optical networking) and NGN new...

According to the Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG), WiMAX and FSS (fixed satellite services) co-location in the C-band spectrum poses a significant interference threat. The results of field tests show that an FSS antenna cannot be in...

Ovum-RHK reports its latest forecasts in the global optical networking market. 4Q07 sales amounted to $4.4bn, up 30% and 2007 revenues would be around $15bn. In the quarter, the market was driven by spending on NGN products and new submarine systems....

A few set of market information released this week: VIA and Bitway will deliver a green, low-power, low-cost (€310) PC for the Brazilian market. According to Nielsen Mobile, 23% of US mobile users reported seeing an ad on their phone in the past month,...