Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

According to Forward Concept, the WiMAX equipment market should grow from $72m in 2005 to $2 bn by 2009 with a CAGR of 130%.

Motorola appoints Jose R. Figueroa as Corporate Vice President and Regional Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Motorola Networks. It also announced the appointment of Margaret Rice-Jones as corporate vice president and general manager...

Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) reports 3Q05 net profit of $0.4bn, up 8%, on revenues of $1.41bn, up 2.7%.

The Japanese government plans to introduce mobile Voice over Internet telephony by 2007. SFR has secured exclusive rights in France for 3G delivery of the FIFA 2006 World Cup. Amena (Spain FT unit) could invest some $267m this year to expand its 3G network...

Teliasonera will move to next-generation IP version 6 (IPV6) in 2006. KDDI is buying Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s telecom unit PoweredCom for about $1.2bn. BT will roll out a high-speed broadband Internet service across the U.K. by spring 2006. Speed of...

Samsung said that 3Q05 profit fell 30% to $1.8bn.

Ericsson will deploy a 3G UMTS-HSDPA trial network for Rogers Communications, Canada.

Hitachi sold its AMN1220 2.4Gbit/s GPON Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) solution to Bandon Community, Oregon. ZTE is to provide fixed-line CDMA technology and infrastructure to Sri Lanka Telecom. Ericsson has gained a substantial contract to supply its IP...

Datang (China) said its TD-SCDMA system has allowed high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA). Nokia has finally succumbed to the Chinese TD-SCDMA standard siren. It will form a JV with state-owned mobile and fixed network vendor China Putian.

Siemens may close its loss-making SBS unit, with some parts being sold off to Atos Origin and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Cisco plans to open an R&D center in Shanghai, and invest $32m over the next five years.