Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

SK Telecom (S. Korea) got the green light (under some conditions) from the Fair Trade Commission and from the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) for its planned acquisition of Hanarotelecom (S. Korea), country's second-largest fixed-line...

United Content Distributors (NL) launched a set-top box tying cable or satellite video service with Internet video access and present it on the television screen, bringing IPTV to the masses. Galaxia Telecom (Algeria) has opened its WiMAX service In Algeria....

Zain Iraq will expand its coverage to all regions in Iraq by the end of this year, to boost its current 7.5m subscriber base in the country. Zain S. Arabia will use S. Arabia Mobily' s network infrastructure for a few years. The deal also includes nationwide...

Spain : 50.2m mobile subscribers and a penetration rate of 112%. MVNOs accounted for 14.5% of net additions in 2007. Telefonica Imagenio (IPTV service) has reached 500k customers. Telenor currently has 143m mobile subscribers worldwide, making it the...

Telenor (Norway) reports 23% increase in 4Q07 net income to €960m, while revenues fell 3% to €2.9bn. For the year, Telenor reported a €2.3bn net profit (+13%) on revenues of €6.2bn (+15%). Rogers Comms. (Canada) posted 44% increase in net profit to $255m,...

According to its restructuring plan, Telmex (Mexico) would lay off about 750 employees. Motorola has named its new CFO: Paul J. Liska. Steve Maine has been named as CEO of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS), a JV between Eutelsat and SES ASTRA. Ian MacNamara...

Once more the subject is back. Pros and Cons alternatively claim they can demonstrate that cellphone impacts (or not) our brain or another part of ourself. Who can say the truth? How to be sure there is no lobbying hidden behind? The latest is from Israel,...

MWC 2008 was also the fashionable place to announce strategic alliances. I always have some doubt on what they called “strategic alliances”. From past years we can learn they are inefficient, failed in most cases and introduce noise and confusion in the...

Barcelona 2008 would be perhaps the taking off point for femtocells. It was one of the hottest topics in the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, and many operators and vendors took the opportunity to announce more than a superficial interest in the...

Samsung announced plans to launch an Internet-services strategy for its mobile phones. The strategy is simple (sell services that go along with their hardware) but not really new. It was implemented several times with success: by RIM with the BlackBerry,...