Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Golden Telecom (CIS) plans to invest $100m in Ukraine to expand coverage of a broadband infrastructure in six major Ukrainian cities. VSE NET (Germany) has launched Germany's first commercial WiMAX network. In Italy , 48 firms will participate in the...

T-Mobile wins German iPhone battle and has been given the green light to sell locked iPhones within a 2-year contract. FT has sold 30k iPhones in the first five days of sale in France. Nearly half of those sales generated new Orange mobile subscribers....

Tanzania had 7.6m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. Orascom Telecom had 64.7m subscribers at the end of Sept. The USA mobile subscriber base reached 248m in 3Q07, adding almost 4.9m new users in the quarter. North America GSM user number reached...

FT confirmed its 2007 guidance, and expects to reach similar objectives for 2008.

Another major change at Motorola . CTO Padmasree Warrior quits the company to join Cisco. Peter Erskine is stepping down from Telefonica O2 . Olivier Roussat is the new CEO of Bouygues Telecom (France). Telecom Italia appoints Franco Bernabe as CEO and...

3.3bn mobile subscriptions mark has been reached last week, or about 50% of the world population has a mobile phone. Remember, it was in 1981, when the first mobile network was launched in Scandinavia. Today, there were about 224 countries with at least...

What to think about two major announcements from Verizon Wireless? The first one is about its mobile network evolution. Verizon Wireless is now one of the largest CDMA networks in the world. But Verizon decided to move to LTE, the GSM world' s 3GPP future...

According to Gartner, mobile phone sales increased 15% to 289m units in 3Q07. Nokia sold 110m units for a 38% market share, and in spite of declining ASP by 9%, increased operating margins. Samsung follows with almost 42m units and a market share of 14.5%....

A few set of market information released this week: According to CCID, China's mobile phone market decreased by almost 10% qoq in 3Q07 to 35.3m units and related sales were down 9% to $5.2bn. According to Infonetics Research, the market for mobile first-mile...

NSN S. Africa has received 13% stake investment from two black power equity firms. ZTE focuses on IMS, interoperability between its IMS and the TMF's NGOSS to help carriers. Motorola changes its CEO. Ed Zander will be out in January, Greg Brown, current...