Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Surprise: the FCC recommends not to allow mobile telephony in American planes, due to unsolved interference problems with embarked electronics, the opposition of largest US MNOs (Verizon and ATT), the main partner Boeing (Connexion Direct) throwing the...

A few set of market information released this week: According to CTIA, mobile date revenues grew 77% to $ 15bn in 2006. Idate expects that fiber access would account for 27% of European broadband access by 2015, of which 18% for FTTH. According to Analysys,...

Ericsson plans future acquisitions in multimedia. Nokia is working with EMI to promote mobile music.

ALU a set a new optical transmission record at 25.6 Tbit/s over a single fiber through three 80km spans, while Siemens claims 111 Gbit/s over 2400km. Huawei is joining the PBB-TE (Provider Backbone Bridge - Traffic Engineering) alliance. Sonus Networks...

LG will offer Google search engine on its mobile phones. Huawei announced its newest 65-nm CDMA 1xEV-DO data card, the EC360. ZTE has introduced the world's first HSDPA handset with push-to- talk functionality, the F159. Haier and Alcatel Mobile Phone...

LG-Nortel will upgrade STK's ( S. Korea) current wireless network to NG Metro Ethernet. Motorola will deploy WiMAX in Chile for VTR. ALU has been awarded a 9,000 km submarine system order. The cable will directly link Sydney to Hawaii. ALU is delivering...

Huawei has been chosen by Maroc Telecom (Morocco) to supply an UMTS/HSDPA network. ALU will provide a CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO Rev A network and radio links to Iusacell (Mexico), while Mobitel (Georgia) has ordered Phase II of a new mobile network (phase I has...

Visa sees the mobile phone as the most promising payment system, and invests in web venture dotMobi. Visa is also working with Qualcomm to bring mobile phone transaction technologies to market. Telenor has been offered $426m to sell its stake in Bangladeshi...

Telefonica Germany and HanseNet (Germany) extend their partnership to offer ADSL service. Hutchison Essar (India) plans to invest $400m in the country in a fiber network to become integrated and build its own national and international long distance (NLD/ILD)...

Turkcell is biding for 65% of Bulgarian BTC. Unefon (Mexico) will be merged within Grupo Iusacell (Mexico). Thailand will have a nationwide CDMA commercial service by year-end, provided by an alliance between CAT (covering 51 provinces) and Hutchinson...