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Market consolidation in the US : MCI rejected the third Qwest proposal (at $ 8.9bn) and continues to stick with Verizon $ 7.5bn offer. But Qwest does not want to give up. Its next move could be a hostile takeover attempt, and direct offer to shareholders....

NCTA : The National Cable & Telecommunications Association show took place in San Francisco last week. The cable industry has been shaped in few recent years by technology, and is no more just a TV programming industry. For years, MSOs have heavily invested...

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...

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,...

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...

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Report on global telecoms market : Deloitte has released its Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Telecommunications Index. The report includes a global synopsis of this increasingly interconnected sector, regional views of the Americas , EMEA and APAC...

Eurocable: a new research on the European cable industry, made by Yankee Group and Cisco, has been presented. In input, the study highlights that networks will converge onto an IP network, that the European consumer broadband subscription growth will...

Wireless Internet usage: an interesting survey, made by Ipsos-Insight, in 12 countries, on wireless internet usa ge. The wireless internet user population continues to grow (+29% in 2004), but mainly in Japan and the US (accounting for 69% of the worldwide...

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...