Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

GSM facts & numbers: GSM is more than 670 networks in 200 countries, about 1700 models of GSM phones in the market, and more than 1.5bn users. GSM accounts for 88% of current net additions, and is currently adding one million subscribers every day. There...

Siemens could cut some 2838 jobs in its Enterprise Communications unit.

Australia: current mobile customer base of 17.8m, of which 8.2m for Telstra, 6m for Optus , 2.7m for Vodafone and 0.9m for Hutchison. Bharti Televentures (India) added more than 600,000 new GSM mobile users in August, reaching a total of 13.4m. Brazil:...

Bouygues Telecom (France) reported 1H05 results. Net profit rose 39% to € 384m, on sales up 6% to € 2.2bn. Portugal Telecom reports 2Q05 results: profit fell 33% to €259m, while sales rose 5% to €3bn. Google is preparing a cash pile of several billions...

CenterTel (Poland), the mobile arm of TPSA, will introduce the global Orange mobile brand from France Telecom. Vimpelcom is buying Ukrainian Radiosystems for $206m. China Unicom will buy 7m low-end CDMA mobile phones. Mobile TeleSystems (MBT) (Russia)...

Teliasonera (Finland) will remove remaining public phone booths by May 06. Iberbanda (Spain) plans to launch commercial WiMAX services in Q4, after successful commercial pilots. Proximus (Belgium) is launching 3G services for the residential market. Comstar...

Time Warner could be in talks to sell a stake in its America Online Internet unit to Microsoft, with the launch of a JV between AOL Online and Microsoft. Centrica (UK energy retailer)could sell stake in OneTel, a UK fixed-line telephony, Internet and...

Nokia has raised its 3Q05 forecast. Sales should grow to € 8.4+bn (+6%), and earnings should grow 5% on previous forecasts.

Nokia has been selected by movistar (Telefonica Moviles Chile ) to expand its GSM/GPRS mobile network in Chile. Nortel has been awarded a one-year network optimization contract by China Mobile for its regional operator Xinjiang Mobile.

Samsung will supply a new wireless broadband technology WiBro (already deployed in S. Korea) to Sprint Nextel. Lucent is to provide secure solutions to Telefonica Soluciones to link the new central office in Madrid to its internal network.