Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Tele2 has gained 77% of Dutch Versatel (NL), an could proceed with the announced merger. Bellsouth will use Sprint FON MPLS network to provide long-distance MPLS-based services to its business customers. Entel (Chile) will invest 170m - $200m in 2006,...

The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of MCI by Verizon Communications. TDC (Denmark) is for sale. Its estimated value is about €12 bn. Fifteen West African telecom regulators have agreed to a common regulatory framework for their...

UTStarcom posts Q3 profit warning. AMD reports a 73% jump in 3Q05 profit to $76m, on revenues of $1.5bn, up 23%. Sycamore surprisingly reports a net income of $1.4m, a first profit in five years, and revenues of $18.5m. Apple posts net income of $430m,...

Siemens has landed a new 3G contract from Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) in Poland. Alcatel will build, upgrade and expand CamGSM network in Cambodia, under a $9m order. Telcordia and Sicap AG will help Swisscom Mobile evolve to IMS and deliver flexible...

Ericsson and Nokia will introduce their respective GSM 45O portfolio. The target is to access new markets and operators, and to compete with CDMA 450 that recently made some inroads in Central Europe and Scandinavia. China has developed the global first...

Sonus is partnering with Israel's TNN Networks to distribute, support and provide systems integration. Lucent has successfully pass tests for its supply part of the China Unicom' s Shandong Metro Integrated Service Network (MISN) project.

Ericsson is poised to take control of Marconi. Huawei had also expressed interest but has apparently lost out to Ericsson. Ericsson seems ready to spend €1.9bn. Intel has announced plans to launch a trial phase of broadband Internet over power lines in...

InfoTech reveals that PBX vendors are in the first position followed by suppliers of data network devices for the supply of IP telephony (IPT) systems to the mid-market segment. According to In-Stat, the market for multi-service business gateway equipment...

Doron Inbar will step down as President and CEO of ECI Telecom; Rafi Maor, current COO, will succeed at the end of 2005. Motorola will cut 1900 jobs at 29 different U.S. and international locations.

Fastweb (Italy) currently has 644k high-speed Internet subscribers. Telstra' s broadband subscribers to its broadband BigPond service has crossed 1m mark.