French ISP Free has delivered speeds of 174 Mbit/s download and 18 Mbit/s upload using multiple ADSL2+ systems. The download speed is still approximately 120 Mbit/s when the terminal is at a distance of 1,8km from the central office.

Gartner predicts that Chinese telecom regulators are most likely to issue 3G licenses in the first half year of 2006. The World GSM Association reported that Pakistan has received $950m in investment from six cellular companies so far during 2005 and...

Ericsson said its 3G wireless technology upgrade solution HSDPA is now in operation in 15 countries. Cisco has signed a definitive agreement to purchase select intellectual property and assets of Cybertrust of Virginia.

Alcatel launched OmniSwitch 9000 family of high-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet core switches. NEC is to acquire 60% in Philips' Business systems division. Thomson could be interested in Thales ' Broadcast Multimedia division (headends, HFC networks,...

Pantech has launched two new handsets, the IM-8600 5 mega-pixel camera phone and the IM-8700 F2F (face-to-face) telephony handset. Motorola launches a mobile handset with payphone features, and first-ever personal digital assistant (PDA) to operate on...

Huawei has been asked to modernize Thailand' s ICT infrastructure within five years. Alvarion will deploy a WiMAX solution in Mali (Africa) for Ikatel, an affiliate of France Telecom. Cisco will provide IP-based video and voice conferencing capabilities...

Nokia is trialling Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) service in the Swedish market with 3 Scandinavia. It will provide its Intelligent Content Delivery (ICD) system to Idea Cellular (India). Nokia will expand Indosat's GSM radio and core networks in Bali...

Huawei expects its overseas sales to top $5 bn this year. Sycamore confirms recovery and reports $27m in quarterly revenues (+92%), and net profit of $7m.

3 Italy' s IPO is likely delayed until 1Q06. It also bought Channel 7, holder of national license for digital terrestrial broadcasting, making its entry in the pay-TV market, and targeting value-added services to mobile phones. Swiss authorities will...

Portugal Telecom is selling PrimeSys to Embratel for €100m. Telecom Italia will start the rollout of its new broadband-TV service Dec. 2, trying to cover 8m households by the end of 2006. Croatia' s telecom regulator has awarded 10 fixed-line WiMAX-based...