Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

In order to sustain Internet growth and give addresses to all Internet users in few years, early IPv6 deployment is seen as THE solution. IPv6 addresses should be compatible with current IPv4 addresses; andIPv6 deployment is considered as a first priority...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, US broadband consumers prefer converged voice services and would be ready to pay up to $20 per month for the service. CVS services would generate over $8.6bn in the US by 2011....

Motorola raised $1.4bn in bond sale to repay debt. Safran (France) unloads its Sagem Comms division for €383m to a US equity investor Gores Group. The division has 6,500 people, and €1.3bn 2006 revenues. ALU has sold 12.4% of Avanex shares (it received...

ALU and IBM continue their collaboration in Unified communications solutions with the launch of OmniTouch My Teamwork for IBM Lotus Sametime, a fully integrated audio conferencing solution for IBM Lotus Sametime customers. Conexant Systems has halted...

Google might be close to unveil its Gphone mobile platform, allowing handset vendors to offer Google-powered mobile phones to market by the middle of next year. TechFaith Wireless (China) has launched Gallic, a Windows-based GSM/CDMA dual mode smartphone....

ALU deploys core optical transport solution in Italy or Interoute, a pan-European service provider,

NSN will provide next-generation convergent charging solution to Telkomsel (Indonesia). Ericsson has signed multi-year contract with AT&T for hosted pre-paid services. It will be the supplier of 2G/3G core network for ANTEL (Uruguay). It has completed...

Alvarion reports record 3Q07 revenues of $61m, up 39%, a net profit of about $2.4m (+20%). BreezeMAX revenues amounted to $35m in the quarter. ZTE earned $80m in the first 9mo in 2007, up 46%, on operating revenues of $3.1bn, up 47%. Export now accounts...

Covad Comms (US) has been bought out by private equity investor Platinum Equity. Orascom Telecom has sold 3% of Hutchison Telecom (HTIL), bringing its stake back to just over 16%. Batelco (Bahrain) plans spending $4bn in foreign acquisitions. China Mobile...

ATT has delayed the launch of its broadcast mobile TV service (based on MediaFlo from Qualcomm) until early 2008. Iliad/ Free (France) reduces its target of FTTH deployment by the end of the year to about 240k households in Paris (vs about 350k). Arcor...