India's GSM-based cellular subscriber base is close to the 51m mark. India added 1.95m subscribers in September. Bharti retained its leading position with a market share of 27.7%, followed by BSNL at 23.4% and Hutch at 19.1%. MVNO “M6 by Orange” (France)...

Tele2 has gained 77% of Dutch Versatel (NL), an could proceed with the announced merger. Bellsouth will use Sprint FON MPLS network to provide long-distance MPLS-based services to its business customers. Entel (Chile) will invest 170m - $200m in 2006,...

ECI Telecom has received a $59m network deal from Costa Rica's ICE for an optical backbone network. It will supply Missouri-Based River City Internet Group with its ST200 edge router platform to consolidate switching, routing and subscriber management....

The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of MCI by Verizon Communications. TDC (Denmark) is for sale. Its estimated value is about €12 bn. Fifteen West African telecom regulators have agreed to a common regulatory framework for their...

InfoTech reveals that PBX vendors are in the first position followed by suppliers of data network devices for the supply of IP telephony (IPT) systems to the mid-market segment. According to In-Stat, the market for multi-service business gateway equipment...

Nexans has won a contract from GE Transportation Rail to manufacture and supply specialized balise cables to be used in the upgrading of Italy's rail network.

CheckPoint is to buy Sourcefire, a world-class solution maker for internal security through their Intrusion Sensor, Real-time Network Awareness (RNA), and Defense Center product lines. The deal is valued at $225m. Comverse is buying the GSS division,...

Tellabs is looking at the soon-to-come GPON market. By adding GPON blades to its existing edge (Tellabs 8800) or access (AFC 1000 Series) routers, Tellabs wants to create a new type of box mixing flow-based QOS with GPON. The move is not really original,...

Ericsson and Siemens will deliver 3G network infrastructure to PTC (Poland).

IranCell (Iran) announced that MTN (South Africa) has deposited most of the fee required to secure a 49% stake in IranCell. MTN was in the race with Turkcell, but was reluctant to deposit these funds in full. If true, this could mean that Turkcell' s...