Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

BT Wholesale appoints Cameron Rejali as managing director for products and strategy.

HP hired Steve Smith, a Lucent executive, as boss of its fast-growing managed services business. Graeme Allan has been appointed vice president for Northern Europe of Alcatel Enterprise Solutions. Kristin Rinne, Chief Technology Officer for Cingular Wireless,...

Brazil mobile customers reached 66m (+41%), with a mobile penetration of 37%, according to Anatel. Japan s mobile phone shipments fell 9% to 3.8m units in November. Total users were 89.7m, or 71% population penetration. China totaled 334m mobile subscribers...

India reaches 47.3 m mobile subscribers at the end of 2004, of which 37.4m GSM and 9.9m true CDMA cellular users. India forecasts teledensity of 25% by 2010 (from 8.2% in 2004). Reliance Infocom ( India ) announced 10.3m users on its CDMA WLL network....

Talkline ( Germany ) had 2.5 mobile subscribers at the end of 2004. India targets some 9m broadband users by 2007 and 20m by 2010. Russia had some 3.5m broadband users in 3Q04. Vonage , the US leading VOIP provider, today announced it has exceeded 400,000...

VSNL ( India ) posted sales of $ 197m (up 3%) and net profit of $ 33m (down 21%). MobileOne ( Singapore ) reported sales of $ 458m (+4%) and net profit of $ 95m, up 9%. Bahrain Telecom reports $218m net profits (up 36%) and about 532k mobile users (78%...

Fastweb ( Italy ) posted preliminary consolidated EBITDA of 218m, and revenues of 718m, up 57%.

Telus ( Canada ) is offering push-to-talk (PTT/PoC) services on its CDMA 1x network. NRJ (a young French radio broadcaster) is considering becoming a MVNO in France . Another similar initiative is rumored to come from Cegetel, a French fixed-line operator...

FarEasTone Telecommunications and Chunghwa Telecom operators will launch 3G services in mid 2005. Vodafone will broadcast 90 mn TV film on 3G portal in Germany . Trinidad and Tobago 's TSTT plans a $ 500m GSM network expansion to improve coverage and...

Bellsouth is offering new bundled promotion with wireless. Up to $ 125 cash is backed to residential customers subscribing to its FastAccess DSL, DirectTV, Unlimited long distance and Cingular Wireless bundles. Turkcell has opened a push-to-talk service,...