Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia will unveil 40 new devices this year, of which 10 3G handsets. Motorola , along with Philips, Samsung and Datang, has invested in T3G, a company formed to promote China's TD-SCDMA standard.

Siemens new CEO has announced 1350 lay-offs in coming weeks in the fixed networks division. ECI Telecom unveiled a new family of indoor optical network termination devices to be used on broadband passive optical networks (BPONs). Ericsson has entered...

Alcatel is targeting its way back in the Defense telecom activities. Some Thales Defense telecom activities are directly concerned, but EADS is also interested by that business. In a separate move, Alcatel and Finmeccanica will merge their respective...

The worldwide mobile phone market in 2004 seen by IDC: Rank Company units sold market share 1 Nokia 207.6m 31,2% 2 Motorola 104.5m 15.7% 3 Samsung 86.5m 13% 4 Siemens 49.4m 7.4% 5 LG 44.4m 6.7% + Others 172m 26% In the UK, there were about 4m high-speed...

A few set of market information released this week: [ According to IDC, the global mobile phone market reached 664m units in 2004, a 29%+ growth in one year. Main drivers were color screens and cameraphones in mature markets (replacement), 3G and Asian...

Market consolidation : the transaction SBC-ATT is official. For $ 16m, SBC will take over ATT, its former mother company. But with this deal, consolidation is not over in the US market. The latest rumor is Qwest and Verizon interested buying MCI. Qwest...

Qualcomm appoints Pertti Johansson as president of QUALCOMM Europe. Nortel announced Peter Currie as Chief Financial Officer.

MobiNil ( Egypt ) announced it has passed 4m subscriber number mark. China had 94m internet users at the end of 2004, of which 45% have broadband internet access. Indonesia has about 30m mobile subscribers as of the end of 2004 (up 60%). China Unicom...

Chunghwa Telecom ( Taiwan ) posted 2004 sales of $ 5.8bn, up 2%, and a net profit of $1.6bn (+3%). Cingular Wireless: 2004 sales of $ 19.4bn, up 25.5% and operating income of $ 1.5bn (down 33.5%). Net income was $ 226m (down 78%). Cingular currently has...

VIPnet ( Croatia ) has launched the first commercial 3G service in the region, after launching an EDGE service last year. Tele2 is in talks to buy majority stake in ONE, an Austria mobile operator. China Tietong ( China ) is deploying local networks using...