Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

TI plan Telecom Italia announced also plans for the future. Broadband, 3G and HSDPA, UMA and cellular coverage are the main items of the new plan, involving about €10bn investments in "innovation and the development of new technologies” over the next...

Siemens reported 3Q05 sales grew 13% to €22,1bn, with EBIT down 37% to €926m and net profit slipping 33% to €497 (without discontinued operations). Its Communications and SBS units continue to drag down the overall performance. SBS posted a €427m operating...

Cisco posts FY06-1Q net income of $1,3bn (down 7%), on revenues of $6,5bn (up 10%). The results are below expectations, reflecting slow growth in Europe, but a good surprise in the US (+15%). Gross margin topped at 67%, but operating expenses grew 25%...

SMS adoption: The US were one of the few countries that did not adopt SMS (short messaging services) from the start. In 2004, according to Analysys, wireless data accounted for only 4.8% of operators' total mobile services revenue in the US, compared...

CDMA reached 286m users (+26%), of which 200m for CDMA 2000. The 1xEV-DO subscriber base expanded to 18m users. The largest CDMA region is Asia with 125m subscribers (27% market share), followed by NA with 103m (48% market share) and Latam 54m (25% market...

WiMAX is taking off, according to Intel. 13 carriers around the world are currently deploying fixed WiMAX networks based on its technologies: Altitude Telecom (France), Axtel (Mexico), BEC Telecom, S.A. (Dominican Republic), Dedicado (Uruguay), Globe/Innove...

Internet Control: The Internet network was born in the US, then has spread over the world, but most of its servers and key elements has remain in the States. It is a fact. The ICANN agency is the administrator of all the Web's domains: be it .com, .uk...

Cisco posts FY06-1Q net income of $1,3bn (down 7%), on revenues of $6,5bn (up 10%). The results are below expectations, reflecting slow growth in Europe, but a good surprise in the US (+15%). Sonus reported a 3Q05 net loss of $2.7m (down74%), on revenues...

Mobinil (GSM operator in Egypt) has elected Mr. Iskander Naguib Shalaby as its new CEO, Juniper Networks hired Michael Lynn.

China had 376m mobile subscribers at the end of September, and could have about 390m at the end of the year. T-Online (Germany) has 4,6m DSL subscribers at the end of 3Q05. Japan: DoCoMo added 90k new users in October, bringing the total to 50m, of which...