ZTE has won a contract with Nitel, Nigeria, to expand the country' s CDMA network. It also got a W-CDMA contract with Indigo Tajikistan, a joint venture belonging to the American multinational carrier MCT. Nortel won a GSM-R network for the Channel Tunnel...

Alcatel announced that MCI is deploying its next-generation signaling server to migrate the carrier's domestic and international SS7 signaling traffic to a packet-based solution. Nortel will deliver advanced broadband services and applications to Northern...

Samsung closed its handset assembly plant in Mexico. Vodafone tests HSDPA in Portugal. Nokia targets 32% share of Russia mobile phone market from current 28%. Huawei expect to ship 10m mobile phones in the year.

Calix announced that it will acquire Optical Solutions, an industry leader in gigabit passive optical network (GPON). Both are respectively leading the broadband loop carrier (BLC) shipments and FTTP GPON deployments. Nortel launched an end-to-end IPTV...

Tele2 is buying Lipetsk Mobile, a mobile operator with a GSM license in the territory of Lipetsk, in the central part of Russia. China Unicom launched new GPS service in 114 Chinese cities by the end of the year. MTN (S. Africa) buys 44% of Mascom Wireless...

NTT (Japan) reported FY 1H (March- Sept.) net profit of $2,8bn (-4%), on revenues of $44,4bn, down 1,7%. VOIP and cheaper services have hit NTT' s earnings in both fixed lines and mobile operations. BT posted 3Q05 revenues of €7,1bn, up 5%); pre-tax profit...

Cisco posts FY06-1Q net income of $1,3bn (down 7%), on revenues of $6,5bn (up 10%). The results are below expectations, reflecting slow growth in Europe, but a good surprise in the US (+15%). Sonus reported a 3Q05 net loss of $2.7m (down74%), on revenues...

Internet Control: The Internet network was born in the US, then has spread over the world, but most of its servers and key elements has remain in the States. It is a fact. The ICANN agency is the administrator of all the Web's domains: be it .com, .uk...

WiMAX is taking off, according to Intel. 13 carriers around the world are currently deploying fixed WiMAX networks based on its technologies: Altitude Telecom (France), Axtel (Mexico), BEC Telecom, S.A. (Dominican Republic), Dedicado (Uruguay), Globe/Innove...

CDMA reached 286m users (+26%), of which 200m for CDMA 2000. The 1xEV-DO subscriber base expanded to 18m users. The largest CDMA region is Asia with 125m subscribers (27% market share), followed by NA with 103m (48% market share) and Latam 54m (25% market...