Samsung will supply WCDMA systems to Vibo (Taiwan). It is its first WCDMA win outside Korea. Lucent got a $500m order from MetroPCS (USA) to provide 3G CDMA 2000 equipment for network expansion. Siemens wins Maxis (Malaysia) order for billing systems...

Alcatel and Sylantro have delivered an integrated NGN solution to China Unicom. Sylantro will deliver servers and Alcatel its softswitch and call session controller. UTStarcom has received a $100m order from China Telecom for PAS network expansion and...

Alcatel pre-announced better than expected 2Q05 results. Revenues should be up 8% to €3.1bn, the operating margin returned in the 8% -9% range, and net profit should be around €170m. Tandberg reports 2Q05 results of: revenues of $88m (+23%), operating...

Nortel and Unisystems have established a JV, named Uni-Nortel, for sales, marketing and support of Nortel's equipment and services in Greece and Cyprus.

NEC has opened Russian unit to focus on the telecom market. Samsung targets French 3G handset market and wants more than 50% market share. Apple is rumored becoming MVNO in the US market!! Intel has signed an agreement with the Philippines government...

Samsung and LG announced plans to develop mobile phones that combine cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. They are partnering with Kineto for the UMA technology. Motorola announced new R&D centers in Bangalore (India) and Taipei (Taiwan) and signed 3G development...

SK Telecom (Sth. Korea) announced 1Q05 revenues of €1.93bn (almost flat), of which 91% from wireless services, an operating income of €492m (down 11%) and a net income of €295m (down 19%).

Romania's Zapp is investing $60m to expand and upgrade its CDMA450 network to 90% of Romanian population. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) will launch its 3G service on July 26. It expects to attract some 100,000 subscribers by the end of the year. Two other...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created .mobi internet domain. A dedicated JV, mTLD Top Level Domain, formed by mobile operators and vendors, will offer the management of the extension domain. Hutchison Whampoa, Ericsson,...

In a tentative to become the largest GSM operator in India, BSNL is inviting bids for the procurement of 60m mobile lines. BSNL currently has about 10m mobile subscribers and targets to reach 20m by the end of this financial year.