Nokia Loses Top Spot in Western Europe

Source: IDC statement

Telecom Italia Flatlines

Telecom Italia said that its group revenue declined 0.2% year-on-year on an organic basis to 7.07 billion euros in the first quarter of 2011, as a 7.4% decline in revenues in Italy was mostly offset by a 13.8% increase in revenues in Brazil and a 27.2% rise in revenues in its recently-acquired business in Argentina.

The Italian company said that smartphones accounted for 40% of its handset sales in Brazil compared with 16% in the first quarter of 2010. source: Telecom Italia presentation

Deutsche Telekom in the Doldrums

Deutsche Telekom's revenues fell 3.5% year-on-year, on an organic basis, to 14.6 billion euros in the first quarter of 2011, as its sales declined in both Europe and the U.S.  Revenue in Germany was down 3.2% to 6 billion euros as a result of declining voice telephony revenues for both mobile communications and fixed networks.

T-Mobile USA, which is set to be acquired by AT&T, saw is sales slide 2.1% in dollar terms, but service revenues actually climbed 0.4% lifted by strong growth in data revenue and moving the handset insurance business in-house.

DT increased capital spending by almost 13.2% year-on-year to 2.12 billion euros in the quarter. source: Deutsche Telekom statement

Bharti Maintains Double Digit Growth

Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile operator, reported a 13% year-on-year rise in revenues in its operations in South Asia in the quarter ending March 31 to 121.2 billion Indian rupees (2.69 billion US dollars), boosted by a 28% rise in customers in the region to almost 168 million. Bharti said that revenues in its recently-acquired African operations, which added 2.1 million customers in the quarter, amounted to 41.82 billion rupees in the three month period.

Bharti said its 131,304 base stations across 19 countries now serve a total of 220.88 million connections. source: Bharti Airtel statement

Telenor Sees Sales Spurt

Telenor, which runs mobile networks in Europe and Asia, said that its revenues grew 6.6% year-on-year on an organic basis in the first quarter of 2011 to 24.09 billion Norwegian krone (4.55 billion US dollars), as its subscriber base increased by 9 million in the quarter, compared with a rise of 3.5 million in the first quarter of 2010. source: Telenor presentation

Mobile Data Keeps América Móvil Growing

América Móvil said its first quarter revenues totaled 156.2 billion Mexican pesos (13.5 billion US dollars), up 6.3% year-on-year. The Mexico City-based telecoms company said at, constant exchange rates, its revenue from mobile data services increased by 37.8% and its revenue from fixed data services by 7.4%.

However, the pan-Americas telecoms company reported that fixed voice revenues declined 4.3% as revenue reductions in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean more than offset the 3.7% rise observed in South America. However, América Móvil's revenues in the U.S. rose 43.3% year-on-year to 868 million US dollars.

América Móvil said that it added nearly 6 million wireless subscribers and 1.5 million fixed line "revenue generating units" in the first quarter. At the end of March, the company had "231 million wireless subscribers, 13.6 million broadband accesses, 28.7 million landlines and 10.8 million PayTV clients, for a total of 284 million accesses, 12.1% more than a year before." source: América Móvil statement

Regulation Restrains France Telecom

France Telecom said its revenues fell 1.4% year-on-year on a comparable basis to 11.23 billion euros in the first quarter of 2011. Excluding the impact of regulatory measures, the Paris-based company said its revenues would have climbed 0.4%, as its total group customers rose 7% to 215.9 million.

The company's mobile revenues increased 5.9% in France, 7% in Spain, 4.5% in Poland and 5.8% in Africa and the Middle East, excluding Egypt. France Telecom said its capex was equal to 9.6% of revenues, representing 1.08 billion euros in investments, in the first quarter, "in line with the target capex rate of about 13% for the year." source: France Telecom statement

LG Sees Market Share Slide

LG Electronics, a leading mobile phone maker, said revenues in its mobile communications division declined 8.3% year-on-year in the first quarter to 3.38 trillion Korean won (3.15 billion US dollars). LG said that handset shipments fell 10% year-on-year to 24.5 million units. source: LG presentation