Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

US CLECs (Covad, XO, Eschelon Telecom, CBeyond, Savvis and Broadwing) have team to protest against US market consolidation around strongest RBOCs, and oppose planned mergers SBC/ATT and Verizon/MCI.

IDC forecast European mobile phone market to grow 12% this year (vs. 19% last year to 144m units shipped), driven by UMTS and converged devices. 3G UMTS handsets should grow to 13% of total shipments this year (from 6% in 2004 and 1% in 2003). Nokia held...

Several African countries are supporting the idea of a tax on new technologies in developed countries to fill the gap of digital divide. This tax, worth of 1% of investments in new technologies made by communities (states, regions, cities,..) in developed...

Carl-Henrik Svanberg, from Ericsson, is optimistic. He said: the telecommunication industry's confidence has returned and our market is expanding again. Our customers are buying more equipment to increase network capacity and introduce new services.''...

TIA reported that the US telecom market grew 8% in 2004 to $ 784m, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.5% for the next four years to reach $ 1.1 tr by 2008. "The year 2004 was a turnaround for the industry overall," says Matthew Flanigan, president...

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CeBIT : Huawei launched three new 3G data card U626, U326 and the E600 data card. Samsung unveiled six new handset models (SGH Z700, SGH Z500, SGH i300, SGH E720, SGH E350, SGH E530). LG introduced or displayed a wide array of handsets: LG-U8150, LG-F9100...

CTIA : in echo to the CeBIT, high-speed wireless and convergence were at the center of hot topics. Nokia introduced its I-HSPA (Internet High Speed Packet Access) and HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) solutions, both aimed at improving data speeds....

MCI : Qwest has made a new bid of $8.5bn to acquire MCI. The decision should be taken this week. According to the MCI answer, Verizon could make a counter offer, or Qwest could start a proxy fight that would culminate in the shareholder meeting scheduled...

President Bush named Kevin Martin, a FCC commissioner, to the seat of FCC Chairman.