A few set of market information released this week: According to PayPal/ eBay, more than 100m accounts in 55 countries are using Paypal for e-commerce. The CDMA Group announced there were 15m CDMA2000 users in Caribbean and Latin America in Sept. 2005....

IBM plans to invest $1bn in financial intelligence (mainly detect frauds in financial trasactions and link disparate financial databases) for governments and businesses, in the next three years. IBM succeeded in producing 30-nanometer-wide chip circuit,...

Alcatel has consolidated its second position on the IP aggregation router with more than 25% market share, according to Synergy Research. Alcatel has more than 100 customers in 50 countries. Alcatel said it has formed a partnership with IBM allowing the...

ANADIGICS introduced two new multi-mode, multi-band power amplifiers (Pas), integrating an IMT-band WCDMA power amplifier with quad-band GSM/GPRS capabilities. Qualcomm is pushing its FLO (Forward Link Only) technology with the standardisation process...

Samsung will supply triple play infrastructure WiMAX and ADSL 2+ equipment to Croatian fixed telephony operator H1. Motorola is deploying its MOTOwi4 Canopy solution to help Philippine' s SMART launch a wireless DSL network . Alcatel won a €25m communications-based...

Amoi (Chinese handset manufacturer) will supply 3G cellphones to Orange( France). Ericsson is providing Swiss Mobile and 3 Italia with HSDPA equipment Nortel got Baikalwestcom's GSM network expansion to EDGE in Eastern Siberia.

Sycamore reported 4Q05 net income of $5m on revenues of $21m, deceiving shareholders. The share slipped 6% to $4.7.

France Telecom revamps its "Video à la carte” service into the new "24/24 vidéo" service; it is the new name of FT' s VOD services. A single platform will be used for the service, be it on fixed broadband with Wanadoo, or mobile with Orange. The service...

Japan' s space agency said it will launch the MTSAT-2R weather and navigation satellite this week. Vietnam is considering launching its own communication satellite in 2008. It also targets making Internet access available to 35% of its population by 2010....

MTN (S. Africa) could open HSDPA service this year, said its general manager. Telekom Malaysia bought Thailand's Samart 49% stake in Cambodia Samart Communications (Casacom). NTL (UK) is poised to finally takeover Virgin Mobile, paving the way for it...