A new step has been done in Europe with the largest ever BPL deployment project in Paris suburbs. More than 1.5m households are eligible for receiving BPL services, including voice over internet and broadband internet. The regional community syndicate...

DT announced 3Q06 results with net profit down 20% to €1.9bn, with revenues up 2.8% to €15.5bn, and EBITDA down 7% to €5.1bn. Bad results, in line with recent profit warning, were due to the loss of 500k landline connections in Germany for the second...

BT reported 3Q06 revenues of €7.3bn, up 4%. New wave revenues increased 20% to €2.6bn and account now for 35% of total revenues. EBITDA rose 2% to €2.1bn. Capex rose 17% in the quarter to €1.2bn. For its FY1H period, BT reported sales of €14.6bn, up 3%,...

A few set of market information released this week: 3G Americas estimates there are 290 million mobile phones in Latin America, of which 66% use GSM technology, 21% CDMA and 11% TDMA.

Nvidia is to buy its rival PortalPlayer for $357m. Alcatel is teaming with key test and measurement (T&M) vendors (Agilent Technologies, IneoQuest, JDSU andSpirent) to deliver an end-to-end solution for IP-based video deployments. Oracle will buy SPL...

Alcatel and Archos will jointly develop the worldwide-first DVB-H-S enabled handset to be available in 4Q07. Samsung is already working on the subject with Alcatel. DVB-H-S combines hybrid satellite- terrestrial broadcasting in the S band (2.2GHz). Cisco...

Samsung has unveiled a dual-mode CDMA/ WiMAX handset on the Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006. Sony Ericsson is to buy Symbian UIQ unit, based in Sweden, and specialized in developing user interface and application platforms.

RAD Data will provide Ethernet over SDH for Bezeq Int. (an ISP) and Ico (long-distance telecom company) in Israel. Huawei was selected as the lead contractor for building a $30m rural telephone network in Ghana. ZTE will provide telephone equipment to...

Amdocs will provide its OSS system to KPN (NL). UTStarcom will supply a MovingMedia 2000 all-IP CDMA2000 network to SeaMobile, a supplier of advanced at-sea mobile voice and data services. Nokia is supporting Optus' HSDPA trials in Australia. It will...

Acme reported 3Q06 revenues of $22m, jumping 229%, and net income of $6.8m, ve loss last year. 9-mo revenues were $60.4m, up 158%, and net income reached $18m. Acme raise about $84m in an IPO of about 10m shares. Nortel announced 3Q06 revenues of $3bn,...