Brazil: Vivo is the mobile market leader with 34% market share, followed by TIM Brazil with 23.5% and Claro (Telmex Brazil) with 21.5%, Telemar with 12.3%, Telemig and Amazônia Celular at 5% and Brazil Telecom GSM at 2.5%. GSM accounts for 46m users,...

Reliance Communications (India) reported a net profit of $70m on revenues of $749m. They are first quarterly numbers after a contentious split from conglomerate Reliance Industries and no comparable figures are available from last year. The telecom group...

Nortel has appointed George Riedel (ex Juniper Strategist) as Chief Strategy Officer.

3GSM Congress wrap-up More than 50,000 visitors (up 42%) and about 1,000 exhibitors (also 40% up) were in Barcelona (Spain) for this thirteen edition of 3GSM World Congress. We have selected a bunch of most important topics developed in Barcelona this...

Instant Messaging initiative The GSM Association has launched an IM initiative to reach interoperability agreements between 15 mobile phone operators, including China Mobile, France Telecom, Telefonica , TeliaSonera, Telecom Italia Mobile, Turkcell, Vodafone...

Health Care Solutions More and more telecom vendors are interested in the Health Care market, as communications solutions can change the future of patient care.The recent HIMSS conference in San Diego was the occasion to review some offerings. Alcatel...

Lucent retirees rebel The Lucent Retirees Organization recently led a rebellion against Lucent' s Board of Directors, and was joined by other shareholders to approve measures designed to tighten up the performance requirements for executive pay, and reduce...

Optical networking market Ovum-RHK has released its latest edition of forecasts on the optical networking market. 4Q05 revenues for the segment grew 7% to $3bn, and 2005 total reached $11bn, up 17%, of which the multiservice SONET/SDH ADM totaled almost...

A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, many mobile operators worldwide will commit increased capital expenditure to network expansion in 2006. Verizon Wireless is expected to invest $15.7bn on CAPEX, of which a...

China will build 3 TD-SCDMA trial networks China' s MII has named China Telecom, China Mobile and China Netcom to launch tests of TD-SCDMA network for commercial operation. MII was a little bit upset that most of Chinese operators have built WCDMA trail...