Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia did better than expected in 3Q07. Sales were up 28% to €12.9bn, operating income jumped 69% to €1.9bn, and net income soared by 85% to €1.6bn. The mobile Phone unit reported the lowest growth with only 3% to €6.1bn, but shipped a record 112m units...

Ericsson announced its 3Q07 sales and earnings would be lower than expected. Sales would be about €4.9bn; its operating profit would be at €618m and net profit at €440m. The shortfall i due to poor conditions affecting the mobile infrastructure. As a...

NSN reported a 7% increase in sales in 3Q07, with an operating loss (excluding restructuring and one-time charges) of €34m, vs loss of €361bn in 2Q07 in equal conditions. NSN, however, maintains its cost-cutting strategy and announces further cost cuts...

ABI estimates that 288m mobile phones were shipped in 3Q07, up 11% qoq and 16% yoy. Nokia estimates are too far with 286m, up 17%. For the year, both are forecasting shipments of over 1.1bn units, or a growth of 13.5%. For 3Q07, Nokia shipped 112m units...

WiMAX has been approved as an ITU standard and added to the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards (made of W-CDMA, cdma2000, TD-CDMA, EDGE, and DECT). It is a good news for vendors and operators. For WiMAX vendors the success is obvious. With a labeled standard,...

In 3Q07, PC sales were up about 15% to almost 67m units. HP continues to dominate and even distant second Dell at worldwide level. HP had a low 19% market share with 13m units sold in the quarter, while Dell sold about 10m units or a low 14.5% market...

According to ChangeWave Research USA, 82% of iPhone owners said being Very Satisfied with their purchase, followed by RIM with 51%. Motorola only got 33% in customer satisfaction and Sony Ericsson had the lowest figure with 31%. In terms of planned purchases,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, 18% of broadband access would be provided via fiber access in western Europe by 2010-2012, while 9% would be supplied by VDSL. According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide PON...

Cisco is rumored to be interested by Navini to ease its entry into the WiMAX market. Cisco offices in Brazil were raided following tax investigation by federal authorities. 40 people were arrested. Nortel will pay $35m to settle SEC allegations, following...

JDSU and Mintera have signed a strategic alliance to provide complete 40Gbit/s high bit-rate optical transport systems solutions. Mintera has secured a $19m C round of venture capital financing. ALU signed a partnership deal with Sagem for joint unified...