- According to Point Topic, the worldwide number of broadband lines will top 200m, up 31%, of which 2/3 are DSL. - According to In-Stat, Wi-Fi services in the APAC region, will grow strongly from $213m in 2004 to $1.3bn in 2010.

Nokia has been fined to pay $252m to InterDigital for patent breach. Symantec bought Imlogic, an instant messaging expert. Skype announced seven deals with Kodak, D-Link, Netgear, Creative and Panasonic, to develop the Skype “ecosystem”, reinforce its...

Siemens intends to purchase for $110m the telecom router products of Harbour Networks (China), including its high-end broadband products Power Hammer (core router), PowerHammer ESR (multi- service edge router) and Big Hammer (metro core switch/enterprise...

Motorola has launched the innovative new Motorola Residential Seamless Mobility Gateway (RSG) to break down the barrier between traditional home and wireless phone service and address the converged VoIP/cellular telephony. It also introduced a family...

ZTE Huawei won a large order from China Telecom for its SmartAX MA5600 IP DSLAM.

ZTE will provide 3G phones for Hutchison Whampoa, after a deal with Hutchison UK. Comverse has signed a $16m billing order from Colombia Telecomunicaciones. Nortel has been awarded a GSM-R network order by Thales to equip the Channel Tunnel Rail Link...

NTL is planning to increase its takeover offer for Virgin Mobile, but Virgin could reject a new offer if not in line with previous offer of 0.93 NTL shares per Virgin Mobile share. This will value Virgin Mobile share at 368 pence (+14%) The Philippines...

Time Warner is starting again a network-based digital video recorder (DVR) service. Orbitel (Colombia) aims to launch a public WiMAX service in 2Q06. GlobeTel Communications (Russia) will launch WiMax networks in 30 cities throughout the Russian Federation....

Moldcell, Moldova-based GSM network operator, has launched the first GPRS Roaming service in Moldova. Maxis (Malaysia) will acquire, in partnership with the Chennai-based Apollo Group, a 100% stake in Aircel (India) for $1.08bn. Maxis will hold about...

India has just 72 million mobile-phone subscribers. Vodacom (S. Africa) said it had 17.5m subscribers by the end of 2005. China had 746m phone users at end of 2005, this could grow to 820m+ in 2006. Orange (France) unveiled its UMTS/ EDGE customer base...