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Nortel finally announced its 3Q04 results. The turnover is down 7% to $2.18bn (including a decline of 40% in optical sales and of 5% in wireless business). Nortel is reporting a $ 259m loss for the quarter. ZTE ( China ) targets $ 6bn in revenue this...

Nokia and Opera Software signed a new cooperation agreement targeting to include Opera's mobile Internet browser into Nokia mobile phones. Symbian and Microsoft signed a non-expected agreement. The two competitive mobile OS-makers have signed a license...

Sagem and Snecma will merge as expected and the combined entity will take the name of Safran. Sagem has gained control on more than 83% of Snecma equity. Safran will have some 55,000 employees. Benefiting from real successes with air flight companies...

Alcatel will resell Aruba WLAN products. After Cisco took over Airspace, Alcatel, but also Nortel, has to find another neutral source for WLAN gear. Nortel turned almost simultaneously to Trapeze Networks to find WLAN products, but will continue to sell...

Motorola is building Mobily s GSM/EDGE network in Saudi Arabia . It will also expand to a national coverage the Saudi Arabia PTC s iDEN network under a new $30m contract ($10m already received in 2004). It has also sold its multi-vendor intelligent optimization...

Tele2 ( Sweden ) has launch the first worldwide free mobile TV service, called TV channel Tango.TV (TTV). The service is available on 3G mobile handsets. Telenor launches commercial mobile service in Pakistan , one year after being awarded the license....

China Unicom added 1.4m new subscribers (65% in GSM and 35% in CDMA) in February. Unicom currently has 86m GSM users and 28.9m CDMA users. China Mobile added 3.1m new subscribers in February, and reached a subscriber base of 210.6m.

MTS ( Russia ) reported 4Q04 profit of $209m, up 37%, EBITDA of $498m (+24%) and sales of $ 1.1bn (+40%). MTS had 34.2m subscribers at the end of 2004. Telewest ( UK cable operator) announced 4Q04 EBITDA growth of 14%, operating income growth of 235%...

Report on global telecoms market : Deloitte has released its Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Telecommunications Index. The report includes a global synopsis of this increasingly interconnected sector, regional views of the Americas , EMEA and APAC...