Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola unveils its cablePON strategy, made of RF Over Glass (RFOG) and GPON-like solutions. It will enter field trails in the first quarter of 2008. Fujitsu could be the front runner for a Verizon contract for a packet optical RFP. NSN said it is interested...

Huawei and ZTE would debut their own smartphones in 2008. ZTE expects mobile phone sales of 30m units in 2007. Apple has canceled talks to sell its iPhone to China Mobile

ALU will design and deploy an integrated communication, security and IT system for the new King Shaka International Airport north of Durban, South Africa. ALU-LGS won two network upgrade projects for the US Army in Germany. It built a GPON network for...

ALU has signed for frame agreements for mobile solutions and optical gear with China Mobile (€600m) and China Unicom (€150m). It will roll out Bouygues Telecom' s 3G/HSPA network in four of Bouygues Telecom' s six operational regions in France. It will...

ATT is now offering business services in Vietnam. EU clears Vodafone to buy the Italian and Spanish units of Tele2. FT won the bidding process for Ghana Telecom for about $550m. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) has obtained the exclusive rights to broadcast...

Vodacom (S. Africa) would buy another 15% stake in iBurst, a S. African WiMAX operator, to bring its total stake to 25%. Neuf Cegetel (France) would consider bidding for fourth French mobile licensing if the process is re-launched. Vimpelcom (Russia)...

Mobily (S. Arabia) would invest $1bn on wireless broadband over next four years. T-Mobile deploys HSUPA in Germany. Telkomsel (Indonesia) would increase its 2008 capex by 13% to $1.7bn. Saudi Telecom has won the auction for a 26% stake in third mobile...

Brazil: mobile market leader Vivo lost market share to 27.6% while TIM Brazil improved to 25.9% and Claro to 25%. Germany would increased its mobile subscriber base to 36.5m in 2007, up 6%. There were over 421m cdma subscribers worldwide, of which 83m...

Rostelecom (Russia) reports its FY1H net profit amounted to $107m, up 450%, on revenues of $1.3bn, up 8%. OIBDA surged 43% to $281m. Vimpelcom (Russia) said its 3Q07 revenues jumped 44% to $2bn, while net income soared 71% to $458m.

Franco Bernabe has been designated as Telecom Italia' s new CEO, and Gabriele Galateri as new chairman. Steven Boutelle has been named Cisco' s VP Global Government Solutions Group. Telefonica O2 Europe Peter Erskine, is to step down as Chairman and CEO,...