Telenor Pakistan , a subsidiary of Telenor Norway , could invest $ 1bn over the next five years in the country s telecom sector. Fixed networks: Neuf Telecom (France) is adding digital terrestrial television (DTT) into its TV-over-ADSL offering. China...

Siemens invests in 3DiS ( UK ), a machine-to-machine communications expert. Alcatel could buy Ethernet access specialist Native Networks. Fixed networks: Alcatel and Microsoft are developing a joint IPTV management and service delivery platform. Cisco...

Motorola is providing a trial 3G network for TMN ( Portugal ). Nokia has inked a GSM/EDGE network deal with Telecom Personal in Argentina . It gained a TETRA contract from Abu Dhabi police (UAE). Alcatel has signed a $133m GSM expansion and 3G upgrade...

Japan : DoCoMo announced 10m 3G FOMA users; main growth drivers are videophone functions and a wider range of 3G handsets. Brazil : mobile customers reached 66m at the end of January, up 42% yoy. China : China Mobile added 3.2m new subscribers in January,...

Telefonica Moviles reported 4Q04 net income of 277m, down 21%, an operating profit of 666m, down 11%, and an EBITDA of 1.17bn, up 7%. 4Q04 revenues rose 30% to 3.6bn. TEM ended 2004 with some 78.2m subscribers, of which 56.5m are in Latam. Telesp ( Brazil...

Jeff Rosen, from Tellabs and former key figure of AFC, has resigned. Telekom Malaysia offers staff voluntary layoff plans for up to 10% of its workforce. UTStarcom will axe about 15% of its workforce or 900 jobs. Siemens will cut some 950 jobs in its...

Huawei will supply OPTUS ( Australia ) with ADSL/ADSL2+ gear under a $75m contract. It will also supply Neuf Telecom (France) with its DSLAM-IP solution, called SmartAX MA5600. Huawei has also deployed DWDM systems in enviaM and Envia TEL companies, both...

Alvarion announced its 4Q04 revenue of $54.3m (excluding InterWAVE), up 38% and a net loss of $(6.8)m. Full year revenues rose 57% to $ 201.5m, and net profit was $0.9m. Broadwing/ Corvis posted 4Q04 revenues of $ 220m, +54% and annual revenues of $ 672m,...

According to Insight Research, the global telecom services revenues would grow from $ 1.1tr in 2005 to $ 1.5tr in 2010. Fixed networks: France Telecom is targeting more presence in Middle East , and primarily to increase its current stake (40%) in Jordan...

Motorola invests in Sequoia Comms, an RF semiconductor company. Cisco introduced two new security concepts: email "caller ID" and "self-defending" networks. Fixed networks: Nortel is teaming with IBM on converged multimedia (IMS) services. Mobile networks...