World Wide Packets has got $25m in another round of funding, bringing the total raised to $140m. Cisco is buying a stake in India's Bharti Telesoft, a unit of Bharti Enterprises. IBM has announced a series of 'self-healing' software products that can...

Cisco is close to announce it's adding an in-house session border controller (SBC) to the XR 12000 router. It is the first time an SBC is included in a router, in line with Cisco' strategy to into the local loop. Cisco is also announcing implementation...

ITI (India) plans to increase its GSM production capacity from 3m units to 6m units in 2006 and 2007. ZTE is in talks with India's BSNL to set up mobile handset JV. It signed long-term R&D pact with France Telecom, starting with developing 3G smartphones...

UTStarcom has been awarded a 90,000 ADSL lines contract by BSNL (India). Ericsson is providing Regional Internet Australia with its Ethernet Access Digital Subscriber Line, or EDA DSL, equipment. Alcatel Alenia Space wins Chinasat 6B satellite order from...

Huawei will build Econet Wireless New Zealand' s 3G WCDMA network. Huawei will be the sole vendor. Motorola China will supply 20,000 digital trunked mobile phones in Beijing. Ericsson got a huge €1.5bn network management deal with 3 UK. Ericsson will...

NTL (UK) confirmed a $1.6bn bid on Virgin Mobile. The goal is to be able to offer quadruple play services to its customers. Virgin Mobile is a MVNO in the UK. The combined group would have access to around 2.5m broadband internet customers, 4.3m fixed...

New World Development ( HK) is close buying a stake in Telstra' s CSL unit in HK. Telstra would own 76.4% of equity and New World Mobile would own the remaining 23.6% of the merged operation. Etisalat (UAE) has taken a 40% stake in Sudan' s Canar Telecom...

Bouygues Telecom and some other European mobile operators have brought Freemove roaming alliance (FT, DT, TI and Telefonica) to the European Commission for anti competitive behavior. America Movil could launch 3G service in 2007 in LATAM. It said it is...

MDC (Belarus) mobile operator has a subscriber base of 1.8m as of Dec 1. Vodafone Portugal said it has more than 4m subscribers, of which 330k 3G users (50% of market share).

Telekom Malaysia posts 3Q05 pre-tax profit of $244m (+77%), on revenues of $941m (up 5%). On first 9-month, TM reported revenues of $2.8bn (+4%).