Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Huawei launched a new GT 800 GSM+ Push-to-talk phone. Ericsson and Siemens made their push-to-talk offer interoperable. Alcatel will buy 2m mobile lines from ITI ( India ) for sale outside India . Alcatel has relation with ITI for years. In addition,...

Tellabs has signed an agreement with Occam, a supplier of Ethernet- and IP-based loop carrier equipment, and invested in the company. Tellabs will also manufacture and distribute Occam BLC (broadband loop carrier) system. Juniper has bought Kagoor, a...

IBM will follow RFID standard. It participates in the EPC (Electronic ProductCodification) project. Huawei is now distancing itself from announcements it was talking with NAvendors (an information pre-announced in Telcoflash N57). The company, however,does...

A few set of market information released this week: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) infrastructure and software market could reach $ 5.5bn by 2007, according to Venture Development (VDC). According to Dttberner, the Revenue Assurance market could...

Wireless mesh networking : an old idea that is finally emerging. Formerly developed for military applications, wireless mesh networking found its way when using 802.11 standard and some clever routing algorithms. Key demand is emerging for infrastructure...

Naked DSL : it is the term used to describe the situation in which DSL service is provided by a service provider to customers who receive no voice service from this operator, but from another one or no voice service at all: a situation relatively frequent...

Need for cellular quality : Cellular phone customers agree that their wireless service is not as good as it should be. They would be willing to pay more for higher call quality from their cell phones, according to a Psytechnics survey. 72 % of respondents...

M&A: With a telecom equipment market about 60% of what it was in the end of the 90s, and about the same number of vendors, it is not surprising that the trend is for consolidation. The trend today is for shopping for smaller niche players, either R&D...

3G in China : it is moving. MII said that the local 3G standard, TD-SCDMA, successfully passed tests, and could be launched for commercial use in late June as scheduled. TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 and W-CDMA have been put into the third phase of field testing,...

China : Some analysts believe it would wish to reshuffle its telecom market. The nation economy is booming, the telecom industry is receiving high levels of investment, there is a huge development of mobile telephony, and future great opportunities will...