Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

According to Infonetics, the worldwide optical network hardware revenue grew 4% to $3.1bn in 3Q06, could rise 9% in 2006 and reach $11.8bn in 2009. Metro accounts for 65% and long-haul for 35% of the total market. NA generated 35% of worldwide sales,...

During the week, Anacom, the Portugal regulator, gave its appreciation on Sonae's hostile €11bn takeover bid for Portugal Telecom (PT). Surprisingly (it was expected a formal approval, followed by the blessing of the Portugal's competition authority,...

DT recently presented a report on "Deutschland Online 4" forecast on the evolution of number of of broadband connections in Germany. There would be 21m broadband accesses in 2010 and 27m in 2015 (or 70% of household penetration). 2.6m Germans would use...

Verizon multiply deals with user-generated content providers. Few days after signing a deal with YouTube to bring videos to mobile phones, it is signing a similar deal with YouTube' s rival Revver.com. Revver.com, which usually shares with users half...

India is the second largest country by population (perhaps 1.1bn people) and the fourth by mobile subscribers, but one of the highest growing subscriber base. India had 10m mobile subscribers in 2002, passed 50m GSM subscribers in Sept. 2005, reached...

Cisco is clearly trying to push a compelling IPTV distribution solution to telcos, but has not in house all the needed components. It has already acquired some pieces, such as video encoding and set-top box technology from Scientific -Atlanta, networked...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Nokia, there should be 3bn mobile subscribers in 2007, one year earlier than previously forecast. Growth should be 10% on average, with a peak of 15% in APAC and Africa. Juniper Research...

According to Circle Research/ GSMA, there is a strong appetite (more than 40% of respondents) for rich messaging services, such as MMS and mobile e-mail. First launched in 2002, MMS had a painful and slow takeoff, mainly due to the lack of interoperability...

Anticipating IEEE drafting (scheduled in 1H2008) on Wi-Fi 802.11n standard, Intel will embed Wi-Fi 802.11n into its Centrino chips in 2007. This will give Centrino-based PCs enhanced connection performance, but could either force IEEE and other vendors...

NEC is launching SpectralWave UN5000, a hybrid 40GBit/s multiplexer that provides simultaneous Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) transport.