Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, APAC mobile gaming revenues reached $1.6bn in 2005, with Japan and S. Korea accounting for 50%, and would reach $4.4bn by 2010. Digital cable set-top-boxes shipments are expected...

Siemens and the German Workers Union will jointly secure funding of job placement companies for ex-Siemens employees affected by BenQ Mobile bankruptcy. IBM reinforces its telecom business with the purchase of Vallent, an OSS company. With the acquisition,...

Motorola has invested in Sequans, a WiMAX chip maker. It is logical to expect Motorola to use WiMAX chips as well. Alcatel has signed a procurement deal with Sequans to buy WiMAX chips for customer premise equipment in India and other emerging markets....

Nokia has unveiled a platform that allows operators to block peer-to-peer file sharing, VoIP, or any other data service. It is a software upgrade to the Nokia Flexi Intelligent Service Node (ISN). NEC has decided to withdraw from the Chinese mobile phone...

Ciena has been contracted for providing a high-capacity test-bed network (the Boston South Network or BoSSNET) for MIT/ U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Ciena will upgrade BoSSNET to 40 Gbit/s in a first step. Calient (US) has been rewarded a contract...

Nokia and Ericsson have been selected by T-Mobile USA to deploy its 3G national network. T-Mobile expects to spend $2.6bn over three years to upgrade its network to 3G. Ericsson and Nokia have been selected by Indosat (Indoesia) to deploy a 3G network....

Altimo (Russia) should invest $500m+ in mobile assets in Vietnam. Etisalat should be frontrunner in the race to buy Greek mobile operator TIM Hellas, while Turkcell (Turkey) denies it has submitted a bid for the Greek company. EU has cleared the purchase...

Synterra (Russia) will expand by 50% its WiMAX network in Moscow by the end of the year. BT will lunch its BT Vision IPTV service on Dec. 4. It has also started to migrate its first real customers from its PSTN to its 21CN next-generation network, a process...

Ten, a MVNO in France, is launching free Live Messenger, instant messaging and e-mail (without attached files) services included in its various packages. Ten is offering also two additional e-mail services Mail Standard (with attached images) and Mail...

Ericsson plans to cut about 400 jobs in Sweden in administrative and sales workforce. In parallel, Ericsson has announced its key team of 12 executives memebers: Carl-Henric Svanberg as CEO, Karl-Henrik Sundstroem as CFO, Hakan Eriksson as CTO, Kurt Jofs...