Ciena announced the successful completion of interoperability testing and qualification of its ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Platform for IBM GDPS eServer. Fujitsu will add ADVA' s FSP 150 Fiber Service Platform to its own optical portfolio. Cisco will...

KPN (NL) acquires NTT DoCoMo 2.2% stake in KPN Mobile. TDC (Denmark) launched MVNO operation in Norway, backed by Telenor. TPSA (Poland) has offered to buy FT' s 34% stake in PTK Centertel (Poland) for €1.2bn. Bouygues Telecom is launching a pilot project...

Google earned $381m in 3Q05, up more than 600%, on revenues of $1.58 bn, up almost 100%. Bell south earned $817m in 3Q05, up 2%, on revenues of $8.5bn, up 26%. The wireline business slipped 0.5% to $5.1 bn from a year ago. Bellsouth currently has 20.4m...

China added5.15m new mobile subscribers in September alone, bringing the total to 377.9m. Mobile teledensity reached 29%. Covad (USA) ended the third quarter of 2005 with approximately 578,400 broadband lines in service. Broadband connections in Chile...

Karel Van Miert has been named by the EU Commission as mediator on disputes in the Galileo satellite project. More than 1,300 Marconi employees could loose their jobs following Ericsson's purchase of the company. Agere' s CEO John Dickson is quitting,...

Carriers World CEE 23-24/11 2005 Budapest, Hungary www.carriersworld.com/2005/cwcee Congress of Nanotechnology 2005 31/10-4/11 2005 San Francisco, CA USA http://nanotechcongress.com APOC 2005. " Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference" 6-10/11...

China Telecom tries to launch IPTV services in five provinces, powered by ZTE. SBC has delayed for additional 6 months its target for reaching 18m households with its fiber-based IPTV, voice, and data bundle project, Lightspeed.

The European Commission gave its blessing to France Telecom' s $7.7bn acquisition of 80% of Amena, Spain.

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Nokia predicts that Chinese mobile subscribers would total 650m by 2008, up from a current 370m. In-Stat reports that one on three US wireless subscribers would use a mobile phone as their primary telephone by 2009. According to Strategy Analytics, mobile...