Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

US Cellular reports 4Q07 net income of $29m (down 46%) on operating revenues of $1bn (+13%). Preview of annual results would be $460- $535 net income and $3.9bn- $4bn in revenues respectively. Turkcell (Turkey) announced a 54% rise in 2007 net income...

Chris Gabriel is the new CEO of Celtel Africa. Motorola ' s CMO Kenneth Leller Jr, the man charged with revitalizing RAZR brand, quits the company.

The goal here is not to analyze the impact of the pending telecom reform in the Chinese market, but to highlight the impact in the global marketplace. The result of the announced telecom reform will be to create three new integrated telecom giants with...

A new study completed by a Finnish laboratory (STUK) found that mobile phone radiation can affect human tissue. An exposure to direct GSM signals of small area of skin of volunteers, for one hour, reveal that some skin proteins are significantly affected...

In 2007, 1.15bn cellular phones (+16%) were shipped worldwide, according to Gartner. Nokia sold 435.4m units and gained a 37.8% market share. Motorola is second with 164.3m units shipped and a 14.3% market share. Samsung is just below with 154.5m units...

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has announced that there were 431m CDMA subscribers worldwide. CDMA 2000 accounts for the bulk of the market with a share of 97%, with 417m (+16%) customers among the 250 networks worldwide. There were almost 91m of EV-DO...

We heard for network sharing for years, but it is obvious that operators chose deploying their own 3G infrastructure. We acknowledged, however, from time to time some tie-up: here for mast or cell sites, there for radio and base stations. Analysys, however,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, there were 5m households passed with fiber (FTTH or FTTB) in Europe with 1m subscribers at the end of 2007. 201 projects are in deploying phase, most of them launched by municipalities...

Siemens confirmed its decision to get out of the communications-hardware business (SEN unit and other call center business) and to become a software-and-solution provider only. SEN is the last remaining telecom asset apart from cordless phones. Motorola...

NEC of America has launched its Service Convergence Integrated Platform (SCI-P), a new converged multimedia and SIP-based solution for the carrier market. Infinera unveiled a new product with a 400-Gbit/s photonic integrated circuit (PIC) at OFC/NOEFC....