MobiNil (Egypt) announced it has passed 4m subscriber number mark. China had 94m internet users at the end of 2004, of which 45% have broadband internet access. Indonesia has about 30m mobile ...
Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) posted 2004 sales of $ 5.8bn, up 2%, and a net profit of $1.6bn (+3%). Cingular Wireless: 2004 sales of $ 19.4bn, up 25.5% and operating income of $ 1.5bn (down 33.5%). ...
VIPnet (Croatia) has launched the first commercial 3G service in the region, after launching an EDGE service last year. Tele2 is in talks to buy majority stake in ONE, an Austria mobile operator. ...
France Telecom intends to buy out Equant, a 54% subsidiary specialized in global communications services for multinational businesses. The deal is worth about 560m. MCI will resell cable modem ...
Orange and SFR (both France) made their WiFi networks internetworking. More than 7000 hotspots are available to both operators customers. Orange also signed WiFi roaming deal with WeRoam ...
Adtran achieved 2004 sales of $ 455m, up 15%, and net income rose 23% to $75.4m. LG Electronics posted 4Q04 net income of $ 139m (vs. a loss) and revenues were up 20% to $6.24bn. 2004 revenues ...
NMS Communications will supply its AccessGate(TM) wireless backhaul optimizer to Spacefon (Ghana) and Spacetel (Benin), two African mobile operators. It is official: Huawei won building CATs ...
Veraz will sell its VOIP solution to Bezeq Telecom International. Ciena has been selected by Cegetel (France) for improving its long-haul network performance. Redback will deploy its NG ...
Nokia will incorporate a single chip solution based on TI's Digital RF Processor (DRP) technology in its future mobile phones. STMicroelectronics is also working on single phone chip. NEC is ...
Nortel and LG have signed a frame agreement to establish a 50/50 JV for the provision of telecom equipment and solutions to mainly Korea and China. Huawei targets to double overseas sales in 2005 ...
A few set of market information released this week: [ According to Juniper Research, the global Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) market will reach $42bn in 2005. ...
SBC ATT: the hot topic of this weekend is the possible merger between SBC and ATT. Ailing ATT could be bought by its former spin-off in a $15bn deal. It could mark the end of a downward spiral ...
HP hired Steve Smith, a Lucent executive, as boss of its fast-growing managed services business. Graeme Allan has been appointed vice president for Northern Europe of Alcatel Enterprise ...
Brazil mobile customers reached 66m (+41%), with a mobile penetration of 37%, according to Anatel. Japans mobile phone shipments fell 9% to 3.8m units in November. Total users were 89.7m, or ...
India reaches 47.3 m mobile subscribers at the end of 2004, of which 37.4m GSM and 9.9m true CDMA cellular users. India forecasts teledensity of 25% by 2010 (from 8.2% in 2004). Reliance Infocom ...
Talkline (Germany) had 2.5 mobile subscribers at the end of 2004. India targets some 9m broadband users by 2007 and 20m by 2010. Russia had some 3.5m broadband users in 3Q04. Vonage, the US ...
VSNL (India) posted sales of $ 197m (up 3%) and net profit of $ 33m (down 21%). MobileOne (Singapore) reported sales of $ 458m (+4%) and net profit of $ 95m, up 9%. Bahrain Telecom reports ...
Telus (Canada) is offering push-to-talk (PTT/PoC) services on its CDMA 1x network. NRJ (a young French radio broadcaster) is considering becoming a MVNO in France. Another similar initiative is ...
FarEasTone Telecommunications and Chunghwa Telecom operators will launch 3G services in mid 2005. Vodafone will broadcast 90 mn TV film on 3G portal in Germany. Trinidad and Tobago's TSTT plans ...
Bellsouth is offering new bundled promotion with wireless. Up to $ 125 cash is backed to residential customers subscribing to its FastAccess DSL, DirectTV, Unlimited long distance and Cingular ...
Verizon and Yahoo! will offer, free of charge, co-branded broadband offering to subscribers to Online's DSL and new fiber-based FiOS services. BT and Qwest have signed a wholesale ...
VSNL (India) plans to bid for a 26% stake in Pakistan Telecom (PTLC), for about $ 750m. Comcast set to announce launch of Internet telephony over cable in 20 markets. Sprint has signed network ...
T-Systems plans expansion for IT services in gaining outsourcing deals with big international groups. DT targets to double its DSL market share in Spain to 12%, through its local unit Ya.com. ...
Softbank has made an offer to buy TU-KA mobile units of KDDI, Japan, as an alternative to the failure getting a 3G Japanese license. Telefonica plans to invest 9bn in fixed-line broadband ...
Etisalat is expected to open a mobile service in Tanzania, a fixed-line service in Sudan, after opening a mobile service in Saudi Arabia. Etisalat could also acquire fixed-line and GSM licenses ...
China Telecom has signed a deal with Lenovo, China's top PC maker, to provide joint broadband network solutions. The Swedish telecommunications regulator, PTS, has invited mobile operators to ...
Sony-Ericsson achieved 4Q04 sales of 2bnb (+40%) with net profit of 55m (+28%). Sony Ericsson shipped 12.6m phones (+56%) in the quarter. 2004 sales totaled 6.5bn (+38%) and net profit was ...
Sagem achieved sales worth about 3.6bn (up 12%), of which 2/3 in communications, and with margin at between 5% and 6%. Nortel finally reported 2003, 2002 and 2001 results. 2003 profits were $ ...
Huawei achieved sales worth about $4.8bn in 2004, including $2 bn in export sales. UTStarcom lowered its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue guidance, and now expects a loss of 40 cents to 45 ...
Ericsson has inked a T-Mobile International contract to supply and replace 10,000 of T-Mobile's existing GSM radio base stations by latest GSM/GPRS devices. It will deploy for Pannon GSM ...
Nortel will deploy a 3G wireless network using CDMA2000 1X technology for Smartcom in Chile, and Centennial in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Nokia was chosen to provide 3G infrastructure ...
Samsung has inked an $ 800m contract with KDDI (Japan) for its CDMA2000 1X EV-DO network. Hitachi won 3G telecom equipment order worth $ 960m from KDDI for its CDMA2000 1X EV-DO network. ...
Alcatel has won a MPLS-based metro Ethernet network order to be delivered to GTD, a Chilean telecommunications operator. It will supply, via Alcatel Shanghai Bell a new optical network to China ...
Ciena will expand Adelphia network with optical Ethernet platforms in multiple cable systems across the country to deliver video on demand (VOD), high-speed data and commercial services. Juniper ...
CSG has won Time Warner Cable billing order. ZTE has successfully launched an intelligent network for Zamtel (Zambia). NetCentrex and Cisco will deploy VoIP services in Ireland for Eircom. ...
Siemens has developed a new solution for the Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS). The solution is tested by T-Mobile Czech Republic in Prague. The solution will be available from 3Q05. ...