Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

DT earned €259m in the quarter, down 87%, but its adjusted net profit rose 7% to €1.1bn. Sales rose 1.5% to €15.7bn, with domestic sales down 7% to €7.6bn and international sales up 14% to €8bn. The results beat analyst expectations, and execution of...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Arcep, France' s mobile penetration rose to 84%, or 53m mobile subscribers by Sept.-end. Ecology: Orange and Sagem signed a strategic alliance to develop and make products with a greatly...

TomTom raised its bid again for TeleAtlas with €30 a share, or €2.9bn (+41%). Google confirmed its interest in mobile with the launch of the Open Handset Alliance, a 34-member group looking to develop innovation in mobile. The alliance includes Qualcomm,...

Zhongtian Technologies Submarine Cable (China) would enter the cyclic submarine system market with a technology of its own. The technology has yet to be approved by the ITU for overseas projects. NEC targets the WiMAX market and will introduce WiMAX 16e...

Nokia garnered another success with Ovi in a deal with Vodafone (after Telefonica). Ovi offers services supplied directly from Nokia, such as access to music store, games, navigation and mapping, social networking services. It is a major breakthrough...

Microsoft has signed an IPTV deal, worth $500m, with Indian Reliance Comms. ALU provides optical and services solution for BELNET’s high-speed research network in Belgium, and a video mixer solution to Portuguese SAPO. Zhone Technologies was tapped by...

ALU has been selected by Telstra for its mobile TV solution in Australia. NSN will deliver its MSC Server System mobile softswitch solution to Elisa (Finland). Ericsson has been named sole supplier of Israeli Pelephone new WCDMA/HSDPA network in Isra...

Capgemini reports 3Q07 revenues of €2.1bn, up 11%, and backlog of €2bn (+23%). Growth is driven by APAC and Scandinavia while France reported growth of 6.8% and US had almost 8%. Capgemini expects revenue growth would be over 9% in 2007, and targets an...

Vodafone will offer Nokia' s mobile service suite Ovi. DT plans selling its Media & Broadcast unit to TDF (France) for about €800m. Sprint Nextel and Clearwire abandon to jointly combine the WiMAX networks they are building. It is for the moment unknown...

ATT plans spending more ($500m) on its U-verse high-speed Internet and video service. It expects now spending $4.5bn-$5bn in two years (2007 and 2008). It targets passing 17m households by the end of 2008, down 1m from previous estimates. Tata Comms (ex...