Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Google' s Gmail is now being offered as a push e-mail service China Telecom plans deploying fiber to the home (FTTH) around the country in three years including the rural market. Hawe plans to build a 4,000 km-long, $64m, fiber optic system across Poland...

Telefonica Ecuador said it has invested a total of $1.1bn in Ecuador to date, has made sales of $445m in 2006 and a 2006 profit of $18m. Its operating concession expires in Nov. 08. Iusacell (Mexico) plans to invest $160m on network infrastructure upgrade...

China had 508.5m mobile subs. End-July, in addition to 372.8m fixed-line users. The number of IPTV subscribers in China surged 20% in2Q07, reaching 736k, on track to top a million by the end of the year. China Telecom reached 224m fixed subscribers as...

China Telecom reported a 5% drop in 1H07 profit to €1.3bn, on revenues of €8.6bn, up 1.5%. EBITDA was up less than 1% to €4.3bn. Voice ARPU decreased 11%, hit by continuous decline in mobile tariffs. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) announced 1H07 revenues are...

A few set of market information released this week: According to SNL Kagan, US mobile penetration would be 84% by the end of the year, and is projected to surge over 100% by 2013. According to 3G Americas, Uruguay has a potential of 250k 3G users within...

ALU has shown interest in forming a venture with Thai Mobile for providing 3G mobile services in Thailand. Apple is said asking 10% of all iPhone-related revenues from its yet-to-be announced European distributors. IBM will resell, under an OEM agreement,...

NSN will provide carrier grade Ethernet switches to Yunnan CTC, a unit of China Telecom.

Matsushita would pay up to $172m on a battery replacement program for Nokia handset owners. Palm is planning to launch its first Linux-based smartphone in October. Nokia installs Microsoft Internet Windows Live tools on mobile phones, and will make India...

ALU will provide Bollore Telecom (France) with IEEE 802.16e-2005 3.5GHz WiMAX gear for the deployment in 12 regional networks in France (including Paris and PACA regions). It will provide wireless Local Area Network (LAN) solutions to Korean Broadcasting...

NSN will receive a $810m preliminary order from BSNL (India) for 9m GSM lines. HTC' s 3G handsets will be sold by Sprint Nextel in the US. New Motorola Q handset with new music capabilities will be sold by Verizon Wireless. Ericsson has signed a softswitch...