Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Many analysts believe THE solution for Vonage is to sell to Sprint Nextel. Whatever happens in the Verizon- Vonage case (Vonage was ordered to pay $66m to Verizon and barred from recruiting new customers), Vonage has entered in a survival status, and...

A few set of market information released this week: According to eMarketer, more than 123m Americans would download or stream video at least once a month this year, from 52m in 2003 and the number could reach 157m by 2010. In-Stat found that US consumers...

Broadcom is again launching new litigation against Qualcomm for misconduct relating to industry standards bodies. Qualcomm has bought some assets of WiMAX chipset maker TeleCIS Wireless. Nortel is building a procurement center in Shanghai, its first Center...

Kasenna and HP have jointly developed an IPTV test-bed to prove SPs that IPTV environment can now easily scale to over 1m subscribers. Nokia expects to start selling mobile devices using WiMAX in early 2008. Motorola also plans to release WiMAX devices...

Samsung said it will be very selective in choosing new markets for its mobile phones and will not compete in the cheapest models. Samsung and Nokia are partnering on mobile TV DVB-H interoperability, supporting OMA-BCAST standard and accelerate service...

Nortel has signed a contract with Telmex (Mexico) for enterprise hosted IP PBXs. Adtran will provide Frontier with its Total Access 5000 platform. Thomson was selected by KPN (NL) to deploy DVB-T network in Holland. Huawei will reconstruct the Shanghai...

Huawei has successfully completed a UMTS 900 trial network with Optus (Australia). ALU has completed the deployment of a CDMA 2000 1X and 1XEV-DO network in the isle of Aruba (Caribbean) for SETAR NV. NSN (Nokia-Siemens) will build the longest GSM-R route...

RIM reports 2006 revenues of $3bn, up 47%, and net income of $634m, up 66%. Rim shipped 6.4m terminals and currently has more than 8m subscribers worldwide. But RIM stock was hit (-9%) by a SEC review on stock options, and the firm will have to refurbish...

Google swallows DoubleClick for $3.1bn. FT has announced it bought 51% of Lightspeed Comm (Bahrain) through its Jordan Telecom affiliate. Lightspeed offers VOIP, VOD and data services. AT&T confirms it has withdrawn from talks to buy a stake in TI. Intelsat...

Neuf Cegetel (France) would win Club Internet (DT France) bid for about €450m. If true, Neuf Cehetel would become second (with 2.7m ADSL subscribers) to FT, taking over Free. DT is looking for a partner for its T-Systems unit as quickly as possible. The...