Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Dion Joannou, current President North America, will leave Nortel to pursue other personal interests. Vodafone Essar CFO Christopher J. Foll and legal head Geoff Carolan are on their way out. Verizon Wireless has named Anthony Melone as senior vice president...

Dear Reader,I am back. Several news have been posted on the blog. Links to info are below.Good week and best regards.JA Telefonica 1H07 results (06/08/2007 catégorie: Top stories ) Telefonica posts good results: revenues rose 6.5% to €14.8bn, while net...

Telefonica posts good results: revenues rose 6.5% to €14.8bn, while net profit doubles to €1.4bn in 2Q07. It reported revenues of €27.8bn, up 11%, and net income of €3.8bn, up 66%, in 1H07. OIBDA rose 22% to €11bn and its operating profit jumped over...

A few set of market information released this week: EU will name and shame mobile operators who fail to adopt the new mobile roaming caps by the end of July. According to In-Stat, Digital Rights Management (DRM) is not dead, and will grow as digital content...

Cisco invest $150m in VMware, a leader in virtualization. Intel had also invested in VMware in July. VMware is a unit of EMC. Steria (France) plans to bid for Xansa in a €700m deal. HP is rumored to buy Bull (France) for €700m. Harmonic announced that...

ALU and Aruba are teaming to target the market for enterprise mobility. It is an answer to a similar team between Nortel and Microsoft. Alvarion and KDDI are collaborating to bridge the digital divide in Cambodia and Vietnam with wireless broadband s...

ALU introduces new CDMA/EV-DO base station designed to add capacity and fill in coverage gaps

ZTE has entered into a master purchase agreement with Sprint Nextel to supply WiMAX equipment. ALU: Guangdong Telecom (China Telecom) has selected ALU for its IP service routers. ALU will provide microwave equipment to Lattelecom. It has also been selected...

Huawei will supply install 200 base-stations by November 2007 in a deal worth $50m with Uganda Telecom. It has been awarded a $275m contract by Kalimat Telecom (Iraq) to deploy a CDMA network, and has been selected by PTK Centertel to supply a 3G network....

Tellabs reported 2Q07 profit of $30m, down 45%, on revenues declining 4% to $535m. Buyout rumors circulate with a possible bid from NSN with a $7bn offer.