Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

IBM continues its buying strategy (fourth acquisition in one month) . Now it is the turn of ISS (Internet Security) bought for $1.4bn. Harmonic will boost its position in the IPTV and VOD markets through the acquisition of the video-networking-software...

Alcatel and Thales announced the joint demonstration of encrypted DWDM wavelengths. They have demonstrated per-wavelength encryption instead of traditional entire fiber. Harmonic has introduced the DiviCom Electra 5400, a 3G MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) standard...

Symbian has shipped 24m Symbian OS units in the first half of this year (+ 66%). Comverse is paying $19m for Netonomy, a developer of customer self-service, bill analysis and point of sale software for wireless communications. BenQ-Siemens has launched...

Harmonic has supplied a digital headend, including the DiviCom Electra 5000 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoder. Ericsson will supply BayanTel (Philippines) with additional Ethernet DSL. Siemens is providing German cable network operator Kabel BW with Voice Over...

Ericsson won a $1bn order form Indian Bharti Airtel for the expansion and upgrade of its GSM and GPRS network in India. Sri Lnaka Telecom has awarded a CDMA 2000 expansion contract to ZTE.

HP posts FY3Q06 net profit up to $1.3bn (from $73m last year) on sales up 5% to $22bn. Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS) division reports sales of $4.1bn up 3%, of which blade servers unit saw a growth of 37%. BenQ reports 2Q06 net loss of $76.5m,...

Amazon should launch soon a video-download service business, based on documents circulating on the Internet. It is testing a service, dubbed "Amazon Unbox Video," that will allow U.S. customers to rent or buy digital videos. China Netcom has completed...

Interoute (pan-European fixed backbone) is buying Telecom Partner Network (TPN) in Bulgaria. TPN has a national MPLS network. Local loop unbundling (LLU) in France is beginning to have an impact on the market. After Neuf Telecom in early summer, Iliad...

KDDI will invest $1.7bn in deploying EV-DO Rev A technology in its network over the next three years. In the US airwave current auction, Verizon and T-Mobile USA emerged as the top bidders. The total amount raised by the advanced wireless services auction...

Orascom (Egypt) announced 41m (+93%) mobile subscribers as of 30 June 2006. UK internet penetration up 5% to 13.9m households, or 57% penetration. Hutchison now has 13.5 m subscribers globally (3.8m in the UK, 6.8m in Italy). China Unicom said its total...