Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Wind (Italy) named Paolo Dal Pino as its new chief executive, effective Jan. 1. Giorgio Della Seta Ferrari replaces Paolo Dal Pino, leaving Telecom Italia SpA to join Wind, Ciena names Arthur Smith as new COO and senior vice president.

AIS (Thailand) currently has 16m mobile subscribers and holds a 50%+ local market share. Telefonica Moviles has 89m mobile users (up 52%), of which 19,6m in Spain, 65,6m in LATAM and 6m in Mexico. O2 Germany has added more than 600k mobile users in past...

Time Warner reportd 3Q05 net income of $897m, up 80%, on sales up 6% to $10,5bn. Telefonica Moviles reports €1,5bn net profit in 9-month (+9%), on €12bn revenues (+45%). 3Q05 net profit rose 24% to €615m (+24%), on revenues of €4,3bn (+46%). Comcast (US)...

Vodafone bought 15% Venfin's stake in South African mobile operator Vodacom and increases its stake to 50%. Vodafone' s move is in line with its strategy to fully control its affiliates and to increase its exposure to developing markets. Orange (FT) unveiled...

Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire businessman, plans to invest $400m in 2006 in two Argentina telecom operators: Telmex Argentina, and America Movil's CTI. Swisscom could have made a takeover approach to Ireland's Eircom Group.

ECI Telecom reports 3Q05 earnings of $6m on revenues of $162m (+26%). UTStarcom reported 3Q05 sales of $635m (down 1,5%) and $403 net loss (vs profit of $5m), and generated roughly $223m in cash flow from operations.

Ericsson has landed a new contract in Uruguay from Movistar to provide a complete new GSM network, including EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS, related services and microwave links. It also got 3G contract expansion with TDC Mobil for its CDMA network, It signed a...

Huawei, through its US subsidiary FutureWei, has deployed its FutureWei BWS1600A Multi-Reach DWDM (MR-DWDM) platform in the CTC Communications network (US). Lucent and Juniper have upgraded Mexican MCM Telecom's multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) backbone...

Nortel/ LG and Softbank have trialled WiMAX/ HSDPA interoperability and succeeded transmitting simultaneous high speed streams (VOIP, multimedia and video). Nokia unveiled its strategy in push e-mail and directly targets to displace RIM from its leading...

Microsoft acquires a new VOIP firm (after Teleo) called Mediastreams,com and continues its aggressive online strategy; eBay' s takeover on Skype has exacerbated VOIP appetite. Lucent seems in pole position to win Verizon' s IMS deal.