Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia introduces touchscreen user interface on its own Series 60, and will offer the upgraded UI to rivals on a licensing basis. The move, of course, is made to counteract Apple' s disruptive iPhone offering. Will the Nokia brand dominance be enough to...

ALU won a $82m contract to lay the East Africa Marine System (TEAMS) submarine cable between Kenya and the UAE. Genesys is adding key telephony capabilities to Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS).

Samsung sold record 42.6m handsets in 3Q07. LG sold 21.9m mobile handsets in 3Q07. Huawei displaces NSN in Vodafone Hungary 3G network. Motorola has deployed a WiMAX pilot network in Paris with Bollore Telecom. ALU said E-Plus has extended its outsourcing...

LG (S. Korea) reports 3Q07 sales of $10.7bn, up 12%, and an operating profit of $390m. Mobile Phones division accounted for $2.8bn in sales (+4%) and shipped almost 22m units in the quarter. UTStarcom reports a 2Q07 loss of $62m (down 376%), on revenues...

EU would recommend splitting incumbent operators into two companies, one for the service and one for the infrastructure. FT (France) is again fined €45m for anti-competitive behavior in the ADSL and Internet markets in early 2000s. In another case, the...

BBC ( UK) announced it provides all of its online content available for free through a deal with The Cloud. TransTelecom (Russia) plans to spend $1.5bn to build its broadband network. Taiwan would invest $644m in WiMAX network by 2010. The UK Government...

TF1 (France) and Samsung continue partnering for DVB-H deployment in France. Spanish telecom regulator has launched legal proceedings against the country's three major mobile operators: Telefonica, Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain. Telstra (Australia)...

Ukraine: mobile subscribers number reached 53.6m in September, up 0.9m in the month. Russia announced 165.3m mobile subscribers (multi SIM cards), up 1.6m in September. Etisalat (UAE) reports it had 6.2m mobile subscribers in UAE. MTS (Russia) reports...

Etisalat (UAE) reports 9mo earnings of $1.5bn (+30%), on sales of about $4.2bn, up 30%. Yahoo earned $151m in 3Q07, on revenues of $1.8bn, up 12%. EBay has lost $936m in 3Q07, on revenues of $1.9bn, up 30%. The loss is mainly due to huge charges to its...

According to XiTi, French mobile internet users will benefit from almost-unlimited connection time packages. The main results of a survey reveal that 70% of users only visit one web page, and when browsing several pages (average of 10), connection time...