Current fixed wireless WiMAX products are made compliant with IEEE 802.16d or 802.16-2004 specs. But future WiMAX products (to be launch late 2006 or early 2007) are going to be based on the 802.16e specs, which has not yet been ratified by the IEEE....

The GSMA had already launched in February an initiative to make affordable mobile communications a reality in emerging markets. The first step was a procurement of some 6m low-cost handsets, won by Motorola with a $40 mobile phone. A new phase has been...

France Telecom has unveiled NExT (New Experience in Telecom services), a 3-year plan for the launch of a number of new services, such as integrated voice, messaging and video-telephony, and converged fixed and mobile service bundles. FT will also launch...

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Tesim ( Turkey ) has 8.2m mobile users and targets 10m by the end of this year. Turkey has 36m mobile users, of which 25.6m for Turkcell. Russia : reports 97.6m mobile users in June, of which 34.2m for MTS, 33.7m for Vimpelcom, 18.2m for Megafon. India...

Cisco has named Jayshree Ullal senior VP of the data center, switching, and security technology group, while it named Charles H. Giancarlo as its new chief development officer, succeeding Mario Mazzola who is retiring.

Hutchison Whampoa (HK) is interested in the Spanish market, but denied any interested in buying local telecom company Auna. FT and Microsoft have agreed to jointly work on fixed-mobile convergence and VOIP. FT has elaborated the NExT plan to make voice,...

China Great Wall will build and launch in orbit a communication satellite NIGCOMSAT-I for Nigeria in early 07. Google is backing Ethernet-over-powerline transmission (BPL) in investing in Current Communications. Tele2 France launches ADSL2+ at 20 Mbit/s...

France : Up to now, only one operator (Altitude Telecom) has been granted a broadband wireless license. The French regulator (Arcep) is proposing to grant two WiMAX licenses by region in order to connect people in rural zones where ADSL is not deployed...

China : The plan for a restructuring of China 's telecom industry has been finalized but not yet submitted to the State Council, so the formal agreement could take some additional months. It is clear (and likely) that China does not intend to grant 3G...