A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, there would be more than 132m converged cellular/WiFi devices in use by 2010. More than 20 combo devices are already ...
Microsoft push towards unified comms Microsoft is working on advanced unified communications. Teaming with Siemens, they will integrate Microsoft Exchange Server and MS Office Live Communications ...
Google targets mobile Google announced a mobile version of its Google News and Google Mail, following the strategy of most internet giants to bring all their internet portal services on mobile ...
FON rolling out European network Spanish Wi-Fi startup FON has begun rolling out its European network, made of 1 million internet routers. Each router is available at €5, and provides global ...
OMAN to be a hub between Middle East, Asia and Africa Omantel has signed a MoU with Reliance's Flag Telecom to build a high-speed undersea link and make Oman a key interim transition between ...
WiMAX for developing countries While the technology can be adopted everywhere, analysts said the developing countries should be its main market. The rationale behind is that countries without ...
WE mobile market still growing According to Analysys, the WE mobile services market is expected to grow at a 6% CAGR to reach €198m in 2011. While the market is close to saturation, growth will ...
Healthcare: New tests from an Italian research team found that cellphone placed near the head may excite an area close to the phone, and the effect last for about one hour after the cellphone ...
Free mobile content According to Jupiter Research, 50% of European mobile handset owners are unwilling to pay for premium services and content, while 32% are willing to pay for mobile content and ...
Cisco and ATT are jointly investing $15.5m in the Internet video provider Akimbo Systems. IBM launches new blade servers (BladeCenter) featuring far less consumption (-163%) and enhanced ...
Telent (ex Marconi assets not bought by Ericsson) have been acquired by investment group Holmar Holdings for £346m. Nokia and Siemens would be allowed to put in a single bid for the big BSNL main ...
Tyco Telecom received a submarine system contract to build a link connecting the Sakhalin Islands to the TransTelecom (Russia) mainland network. Ericsson has secured a DSL national order from ...
Alcatel secured a 3G contract for Telekom Malaysia' s Celcom subsidiary. The contract is worth about €70m. ZTE will deploy a all IP CDMA 2000 for Tata Teleservices (India) for rural telecom ...
Microsoft could be interested in Yahoo to face with Google. The rumor, relaunched this week, could make sense, as Microsoft is struggling on the internet market while Google is dominating. Yahoo ...
New Zealand tries to pass the Telecommunications Amendment Bill into parliament and therefore introduce local loop unbundling and increased competition. Chunghwa Telecom is rolling out the first ...
Verizon Wireless plans to shut down its Airfone business. Batelco (Bharain) has bought 96% of Jordan's mobile company Umniah for $415m. Huawei and ZTE said they are interested in buying stake in ...
Australia had 3.2m fixed broadband users and 71.6k wireless broadband customers as of March 06. Portugal Telecom reached 1m broadband users in June 06. Mobistar (Belgium) passed the 3m mobile ...
IDEF 2006, Interactive and Digital Entertainment Festival. 28-30/06 2006 Cannes, Francewww.afjv.com VON Japan 2006 July 19-21, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.www.von.com/japan06/ VoiceCon Fall 2006 August ...
Post Nokia-Siemens The Nokia- Siemens Com deal is just a third step in vendor consolidation that raises the question who will be the fourth (first was Ericsson-Marconi, second is Alcatel-Lucent). ...
Push-to -Talk specifications available ? PTT/PoC was a hype two-years ago and all vendors were offering a solution. Operators and end-users, however, did not swallow the bait. The main reason was ...
Universal Service funding new rules in the US The USF Universal Service Fund) is aimed to assist rural and poor areas with funds to provide basic phone services. Up to now, funds were raised from ...
Phone in the sky: real market or not? While the US regulator recently auctioned radio spectrum for telephony and data on air travel (winners were AC BidCo and JetBlue), question raised on the ...
Huawei success in CDMA Huawei released interesting figures on its CDMA business. It has signed 19 CDMA 1x EV-DO contracts in the past six months and has delivered more than 10m lines of its CDMA ...
European commitment 34 European ITC ministries have committed on June 12 in Riga to help all European citizens using ITC technologies and fill the digital divide. The e-inclusion project targets ...
3.5G success According to Informa Telecoms & Media, 3.5G is poised to be a big success. The number of subscribers should grow to 200m in 2010, from 2.5m at the end of 2006. HSDPA should account ...
Healthcare: Caution lightning Not only mobile phones are suspected to bring brain tumor or other high-frequency radiation effects, but now doctors have warned against using mobile phones during ...
A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, more than 500m users are expected to subscribe to mobile TV in the world by 2011, up from 6.4m at the end of 2005. ...
Alcatel and Lucent have filed for European antitrust approval. The commission is scheduled to rule July 24 on the deal. Siemens, Nortel and Avaya are said in talks about a potential three-way ...
Intel continue investing in WiMAX, with funding an additional $18m into WiMAX gear-maker Navini Networks. It will also introduce a a new chipset, called Rosedale 2, that supports both the fixed ...
LG launches the LX550, a phone with a built-in FM radio transmitter, a MP3 music player, a camera and 3G video streaming. LG is very successful with its slider Chocolate phones worldwide, with ...
Siemens and Juniper were selected to provide M-Series routers for the Finnish military's voice and data network. Nortel will provide VoIP and optical equipment and services to Liberty Global ...
Ericsson announced a contract with Celcom (mobile unit of Telekom Malaysia) to upgrade its GSM network. It will also expand the EDGE network of Malaysia's DiGi Telecommunications. Nokia will ...
Motorola share went up almost 2% after a Merrill Lynch analyst upgraded Motorola saying the stock was cheap given the expectation of higher sales and profit margins. UTStarcom is reporting a 1Q06 ...
iTunes (Apple) should be in talks to distribute videos and films. PCCW confirms two bids, from Australian Macquarie Bank and US equity firm Newbridge Capital, to buy its telecommunications and ...
Telefonica/O2 in the UK has spent $92m to buy Be, a British broadband service provider. This will help O2 to offer combined fixed/mobile service. ATT will build a a fiber-to-the- premises (FTTP) ...
Sprint Nextel expands data roaming capabilities through two new agreements with Bell Canada and Iusacell (Mexico). China Unicom and STK signed an exclusive strategic alliance to further develop ...
Brazil had 92.4m mobile users at the end of May, adding 1.8m in one month. Vivo maintained its leadership in May with 33% of subscribers, followed by TIM with 23.6% and Claro with 22.2% China has ...