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 broadband networking solution in Chunghwa Telecom network. CSG announced...

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 rose 22% to $ 23.6bn with earnings of $ 1.46bn (+100%). Telecom...

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 CAT s CDMA network in Thailand . Huawei made an offer 37% lower...

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 to $4bn. In-Fusio , mobile-game publisher, acquires Thumbworks,...

NetCentrex and Thales are partnering for delivering a Triple-play solution.

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 setting up a 3G mobile phone R&D center in Beijing and has commenced...

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. [ According to The Diffusion Group, consumers are increasingly comfortable with the idea...

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 for ATT, the most powerful operator in the 70s. Banned from...

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. China Tietong ( China ) is deploying local networks using...

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 subscribers as of the end of 2004 (up 60%). China Unicom...