China 3G standard disappoints in test: Local press said TD-SCDMA had problems supporting 3G value-added applications, such as multimedia messages, making video calls, and downloading and playing video clips. It seems the issue is coming from the performance...

Telefonica names Jaime Smith, chief financial officer, to the head of Cesky Telecom operator; ousting Gabriel Berdar, former CEO.

Vodafone Portugal had 120,000 3G subscribers at the end of 1Q05. America Movil had just over 66m clients in 11 countries, at the end of 1Q05. MTN (South Africa) has reached 16m mobile subscriber base with its two recent acquisitions in Cameroon and Z...

China Telecom and China Netcom will conduct IPTV pilots for Shanghai Media Group in selected Chinese cities. SingTel and WilTel (USA) will upgrade their existing IP-VPN service offerings to a global MPLS IP-VPN network to meet demand from the enterprise...

Telecom Italia has complete merger with Telecom Italia Mobile, its mobile arm. ATT said it is also trying and deploying fixed mobile convergence. Telfort (NL) is for sale for about 1.2bn. Mexico's government has signed an agreement with Microsoft, Intel,...

Europe is real. Not only the Commission is writing directives to co-ordinate various aspects of telecom services, but now unions are asking for a European regulator. The Post & Telecom branch of EUROFEDOP, the international federation of Public Services...

Portugal's telecoms regulator, Autoridade Nacional de Comunicacoes enters the proceedings for renewal of the rights of use of GSM900 and 1800 frequencies by Vodafone and TMN, which respectively matures in 2006 and 2007.

Mobile gaming is projected to generate $3bn in revenue in the U.S. In 2009, according to Mintel International. RHK, the telecom consulting group is dead. Benefiting from the telecom boom, it did not go through the 2001-2004 downturn period. 10th Street...

Alcatel announced it has been selected by Elion Enterprises ( Estonia ) for the delivery of a FTTU platform. It has also delivered its FTTU solution to a local cable TV operator and a municipal authority in Japan .

Macromedia is trying to enter the mobile market with its Flash technology. Its latest initiative is an integrated user interface for its Macromedia Breeze conferencing system. Freescale Semiconductor says that it has a new multimode 3G WCDMA/EDGE cellular...