Cisco new strategy Cisco was mainly focused up to now delivering good products/ solutions on the growing markets, and we know the success of this strategy. But it recently acknowledged that what ...
Telcoflash is proud to deliver this week its hundredth issue. 100th Issue I did not think, when starting two years ago, reaching number 100. I did it and I am proud of it. I am ready to continue ...
A few set of market information released this week: The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the TIA Association have announced new US estimates for FTTH deployments, currently passing over 3.6m ...
Cellcos turn to mobile TVCellcos (all over the world) are trying to shift current mobile video applications from gadgets for the tech-savvy to mass market applications, i.e. affordable, easy to ...
Mobile infra market shareAccording to Dell'Oro, Ericsson maintained its market leadership in 2005 with about 30% market share (vs 29%+ in 2004), followed by Nokia with 13.1% (down almost 2 ...
3G Western Europe market predictions According to Research & Markets, in WE, 3G critical mass (20% of the of all mobile handsets) would only occur at the end of 2007, while mass market (above 50% ...
4G testsDoCoMo has achieved 2.5Gbit/s packet transmission in the downlink while moving at 20km/h. Using 6 MIMO antennas and 64-QAM modulation, data volume per transmission was increased from four ...
US wireless marketAccording to TIA, U.S. wireless revenues totaled $175bn (+11%) in 2005, of which service revenues grew about 15% to $119bn. Those figures could grow respectively to $265bn, and ...
Consolidation in BrazilFive Brazilian mobile operators will merge into a single company called Vivo bearing the brand name they have used together for several years. Telesp Celular, (TCP), Tele ...
Alcatel Alenia Space won a contract with Turkish satellite operator Turksat for the construction and launch of a high-powered telecommunications satellite.
Telstra could be interested in buying 30% stake in Taiwan Mobile, but declined to comment. Sri Lanka' s Dialog Telekom plans to invest $150m in 2006 to expand its overall network. Telefonica ...
Lacom, a JV between Orascom and Egypt Telecom in Algeria, had received an operating license in March 2005, and launches fixed operation in competition with Algerie Telecom. Telekom Austria plans ...
Bouygues Telecom (France) will launch on 1st of March a national unlimited 8-12 pm call plan towards fixed and mobile operators. Another plan target youth with unlimited free SMS and MMS after ...
China said it passed 400m mobile subscribers in early February 2006. Orange UK targets SMEs in the UK with a new service called Orange Landline for Business. The target is of course to offer ...
Maxis (Malaysia) reports 2005 net profit of $450m, up 4.5%, and an EBITDA of $951m up 10%. MTC (Kuwait) announced record 2005 profits of $637m (+55%)on revenues of $2bn (+80%). Belgacom (Belgium) ...
SFR (France) decreases the number of directors, shorten the decision making process, outs Pierre Bardon from the executive committee and gives him a new role in PR. Frank Esser, its CEO, ...
Digital Music Forum 28/02-01/03 2006 New Yorkwww.digitalmusicforum.com WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatarwww.itu.int CeBIT 2006 9-15/03 2006 Hannover ...
Mobile infrastructure market A new report from Dell'Oro reveals that the worldwide mobile infrastructure equipment market grew 7% in 2005 to $40.1bn. In 4Q05, the market grew 8% driven by strong ...
Optical transport market In the previous Telcoflash issue (N99), we presented Ovum-RHK forecast on this market. Today, Dell'Oro unveiled its own results: the worldwide Optical Transport market ...
A few set of market information released this week: According to PayPal/ eBay, more than 100m accounts in 55 countries are using Paypal for e-commerce. The CDMA Group announced there were 15m ...
IBM plans to invest $1bn in financial intelligence (mainly detect frauds in financial trasactions and link disparate financial databases) for governments and businesses, in the next three years. ...
Alcatel has consolidated its second position on the IP aggregation router with more than 25% market share, according to Synergy Research. Alcatel has more than 100 customers in 50 ...
ANADIGICS introduced two new multi-mode, multi-band power amplifiers (Pas), integrating an IMT-band WCDMA power amplifier with quad-band GSM/GPRS capabilities. Qualcomm is pushing its FLO (Forward ...
Samsung will supply triple play infrastructure WiMAX and ADSL 2+ equipment to Croatian fixed telephony operator H1. Motorola is deploying its MOTOwi4 Canopy solution to help Philippine' s SMART ...
Amoi (Chinese handset manufacturer) will supply 3G cellphones to Orange( France). Ericsson is providing Swiss Mobile and 3 Italia with HSDPA equipment Nortel got Baikalwestcom's GSM network ...
France Telecom revamps its "Video à la carte” service into the new "24/24 vidéo" service; it is the new name of FT' s VOD services. A single platform will be used for the service, ...
Japan' s space agency said it will launch the MTSAT-2R weather and navigation satellite this week. Vietnam is considering launching its own communication satellite in 2008. It also targets making ...
MTN (S. Africa) could open HSDPA service this year, said its general manager. Telekom Malaysia bought Thailand's Samart 49% stake in Cambodia Samart Communications (Casacom). NTL (UK) is poised to ...
Brazil: Vivo is the mobile market leader with 34% market share, followed by TIM Brazil with 23.5% and Claro (Telmex Brazil) with 21.5%, Telemar with 12.3%, Telemig and Amazônia Celular at 5% and ...
Reliance Communications (India) reported a net profit of $70m on revenues of $749m. They are first quarterly numbers after a contentious split from conglomerate Reliance Industries and no ...
3GSM Congress wrap-upMore than 50,000 visitors (up 42%) and about 1,000 exhibitors (also 40% up) were in Barcelona (Spain) for this thirteen edition of 3GSM World Congress. We have selected a ...
Instant Messaging initiativeThe GSM Association has launched an IM initiative to reach interoperability agreements between 15 mobile phone operators, including China Mobile, France Telecom, ...
Health Care SolutionsMore and more telecom vendors are interested in the Health Care market, as communications solutions can change the future of patient care.The recent HIMSS conference in San ...
Lucent retirees rebelThe Lucent Retirees Organization recently led a rebellion against Lucent' s Board of Directors, and was joined by other shareholders to approve measures designed to tighten ...
Optical networking marketOvum-RHK has released its latest edition of forecasts on the optical networking market. 4Q05 revenues for the segment grew 7% to $3bn, and 2005 total reached $11bn, up ...
A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, many mobile operators worldwide will commit increased capital expenditure to network expansion in 2006. Verizon ...
China will build 3 TD-SCDMA trial networks China' s MII has named China Telecom, China Mobile and China Netcom to launch tests of TD-SCDMA network for commercial operation. MII was a little bit ...