Dear Reader, I am pleased to wish you spending very nice vacation for XMAS time and a Happy Nex Year for 2009. Best regards Jean Arnal

Canalys reports that the smartphone market continues to thrive, with some 40m units shipped in the third quarter. The smartphone segment now accounts for about 13% of the global handset market,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to OVUM, APAC would double its mobile subscriber base to 2.9bn by 2013 (from 1.4bn in 2007). That means that the APAC region would...

Virgin Mobile USA reports 5.2m mobile subscribers (flat). SingTel had 217m (+10%) mobile users by the end of September, of which 77.5m in India, 60.5m in Indonesia, and 24m in the Philippines, and...

Microsoft unveiled its new Internet Explorer Mobile 6 browser. Analysts are giving Microsoft as the winner of Verizon' s mobile search deal. Amdocs is buying ChangingWorlds for $60m....

Tellabs is providing Claro with its 8600 managed Edge platform. It is joining the list of BT' s preferred system suppliers for its 21CN next-generation network. Nokia provides ATT with its 6650...

3 UK will provide free INQ1 handset when a customer subscribe to its £15 per month contract, and offer unlimited free Facebook, Skype, Windows Messenger and web access + 75 mn of regular calls to...

Mobilink Pakistan announced the launch of its Mobilink Infinity mobile WiMAX service in Pakistan. Kalimat Telecom (Iraq) is launching Iraq' s first WiMAX network. Grameenphone (Bangladesh) has...

Analyst Corner: CSFB lowered its price target on Leap Wireless by 21% to $55. RBC lowered MetroPCS price target by 5% to $19; Barclays lowered its price target on Sprint Nextel by 10% to $10, and...

Virgin Mobile USA reports 3Q08 profit of $4m, vs a loss of $4.7m last year, on revenues of $323m, up 2%. Vodafone announced a 35% drop in net profit for the first half of the financial year, at...