Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

2Q05 handset sales According to Gartner, 2Q05 handset sales amounted to 190m units shipped, up 22%. WE accounts for 19% or 37.4m +10%), NA for above 18% or 35.5m units (+9.5%), EEMA for more than 17% or 33.6m units, APAC for above 30% or 58.3m units and...

Zhone Technologies: What news? Is Zhone Technologies turning into a profitable company? After a series of takeovers of ailing companies, including Gluon, Sorrento, and Tellium, and having burn about $ 500m in borrowed money in few years, Zhone seems finding...

Home Gateway Home gateway is the new battleground for telcos, as controlling the gateway that sits between the network and the customer's home is the path to deliver a broad range of IP-based multimedia services. A new industry body, the Home Gateway...

Central and Eastern Europe mobile profitability concern: Central and Eastern Europe average margins per user (AMPUs) continue to fall rapidly. After a 10% decrease in 2Q05 to $12, local AMPU fell another 30% to $6 in 3Q05, according to Strategy Analytics....

TV over ADSL over WiFi: a reality Ruckus Wireless, a US start-up, succeeded in transmitting TV programs over ADSL over WiFi. It is a first, as WiFi is not really suited to transmit multimedia streams, with constant bit rate and no interference features....

CDG publishes CDMA evolution The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has published, jointly with Signals Research, a white paper on CDMA2000 evolution to 3G and beyond. "CDMA2000 continues to evolve with CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A and B and future enhancements,...

FTTH IPTV gets a new dimension Optical Entertainment Network (OEN), a US start-up, plans to deploy FTTH services to over 1,600,000 households in Houston, Texas. We are far from current limited municipal deployments, and nearer from plans of big two US...

Telefonica/ KPN Last week it was a bunch of news rumoring the takeover of Telefonica on Dutch KPN, then of denies by both parties. Given the reactions, it is probably premature to speak of talks between the two companies. Top management of both companies...

Wireless Broadband in NA: Intense activity in the NA wireless broadband news. Operators, be they telcos, ISPs, MSOs, or satellite providers, are seeking ways to deliver high-speed data and voice services to consumers and businesses beyond their conventional...

Are French quitting FT ? According to Arcep, the French regulator, there are about 15,000 unbundling demands each week in France, of which 10,000 for total unbundling and cutting the cord with FT. FT, however, says that about 10,000 users are turning...