Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

T-Mobile and T-Com (Germany) introduce combined fixed/mobile flat rate for € 9.95 a month until end of January 2006. Telecom New Zealand could abandon the Australian market. Its Australian unit (AAPT) should be therefore for sale. Optus, Macquarie Bank,...

European telecom rules: The European Commission has sent written warnings to nine European member states for breaking European telecom rules. The nine states are: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Slovenia....

Is Microsoft finally getting in the mobile market? After years of being the uninvited guest at the mobile party, left out of the original Symbian Alliance, Microsoft has struggled to get its Windows operating system (OS) accepted in mobile devices. Even...

Microsoft – Yahoo – AOL – Google We knew that Microsoft was interested in buying AOL Online from Time Warner; AOL is the Internet's second biggest network of site, with some 112 million visitors. The strategy has been disturbed by the announcement of...

Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) TSF is an NGO (non-governmental organization) that targets to bring telecommunications means in devastated regions (i.e. by hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or tsunamis). The NGO says it can have communications...

Enhanced Wireless Consortium for new 802.11n WiFi standard Twenty-seven Wi-Fi industry players formed a coalition to accelerate the IEEE 802.11n standard development process (not targeted before 2007) and promote a technology specification for next-generation...

Wind CEO Tommaso Pompei is quitting. Pierre Danon (Capgemini N°2 ) is leaving the company. Gilles Pélisson, current Bouygues Telecom CEO, will become Accor Hostels' CEO. Philippe Montagner will become new chairman and CEO of Bouygues Telecom.

India's GSM-based cellular subscriber base is close to the 51m mark. India added 1.95m subscribers in September. Bharti retained its leading position with a market share of 27.7%, followed by BSNL at 23.4% and Hutch at 19.1%. MVNO “M6 by Orange” (France)...

Vodafone has entered into an agreement with Electronic Arts (EA), a leading supplier of gaming software. Newly-licensed Asia Telecommunications will become become Malaysia's first MVNO. TIM (Telecom Italia) will launch DVB-H mobile TV technology in 2006....

ECI Telecom has received a $59m network deal from Costa Rica's ICE for an optical backbone network. It will supply Missouri-Based River City Internet Group with its ST200 edge router platform to consolidate switching, routing and subscriber management....