China phone sales China's mobile phone market reached 61m units in the first nine months and 21m units in 3Q05. It is expected that domestic annual phone sales would reach 88m units this year. The market witnessed strong demand for low-end phones (accounting...

Telecom in Brazil The Brazilian Statistics Institute (IBGE) has recently released research on household expenditure in Brazil. Here are the main trends in 2004: 16.5% of Brazil's households only had access to mobile telephony, up from 7.8% in 2001. 17.8%...

DMB-based broadcast mobile TV business case not working properly South Korea broadcasters began providing free mobile TV content to DMB-based mobile phones. If already-launched satellite DMB mobile TV attracted great success, based on fair split of the...

According ti Point Topic, the IPTV market is developing well in 2005, with 1.5m subscribers by mid-05 (+40%) and a penetration of 1.5%. More than 75% of IPTV subscribers are in the Europe and APAC regions. Dell'Oro found that the total PBX market grew...

Alfa Telecom / Altimo No week in the recent months without an announcement concerning Alfa Telecom (Russia). The latest is a change in the name of the company. Alfa Telecom will be named Altimo from now. Altimo is the leading private equity investment...

Connected people The average European internet user now spends 10 hours 15 minutes a week online compared to 8hrs 45mn a week in 2004 (+17%) according to a study by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). This study also reveals that...

Cisco will invest $800m in a new R&D campus in Bangalore (India). JDSU has completed its acquisition of Agility Communications, a tunable laser maker. Alcatel has acquired a 25% stake in 2Wire, a pioneer in home broadband network solutions. Their partnership...

Nokia sold 23m mobile phones (+77%) in China in first nine months. It unveils three new 3G mobile phones: Nokia 6282, 6233 and 6234. Motorola is believed to be in talks with Chinese TCL, and could completely take over TCL's handset business unit. Samsung...

Cisco is providing its IP NGN platform to SaskTel (Canada). It will supply its CRS-1 Carrier Routing System to China Telecom. Thomson is delivering Set-Top-Boxes to Chinese Operator Dalian Tiantu Cable TV. Ericsson will deploy its IP-DSLAM EDA system,...

Ericsson has been selected by SunCom (USA) to provide its softswitch, IMS and UMA solutions to build SunCom' s NG core network. It will provide VIBO Telecom (Taiwan) with a new next-generation AXX 9300 optical metro network across Taiwan. Nokia has won...