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Motorola posts strong revenue increase to $10bn in the quarter (+22%), a record in handset shipment with more than 46m units (+61%) and a market share of 21%+ in the handset market. Profit, however, declined 4% to $686m. Mobile devices sales in the fourth...

Ericsson reports solid performance. 1Q06 sales reached €4.2bn, up 24%; the operating income was €755m and the net income was €496m (flat). Gross margin however decreased 5 points to 43%, as well as operating margin to 17%. Margins were hit by Marconi...

The move could make sense as today carriers are perceived as dumb pipe providers. It could be vital for them to take the initiative on new broadband services and devices. The game is certainly not easy, but could be worth to play. Managing a residential...

For the past two or three years, telcos and MSOs have rushed in the triple play (i.e. fixed voice, data internet and TV) market as a way to increase revenues, reduce churn and met customer demand of bundled services. To differentiate between themselves,...

Juniper is back on the forefront , but not the same way as years ago when it was a rising star. Now clouds are gathering above its head. Some weeks ago, Juniper was given as a potential takeover target for Ericsson, one of its main customers. Lucent,...

According to Infocom, while broadband penetration and competition increased for most of Western Europe and Eastern European countries in 2005, it is not a fatality for incumbents to experience a drop in market share. It is true that big incumbents lost...

Difficult for mobile operators to choose which mobile TV technology to implement. In brief, there are five main current technologies competing, but no one can be said to be better than others or be THE standard in few months or years. The first one is...

Verizon Wireless is 6 years old. Happy Birthday! Geneva will host Telecom World in 2009. Telecom World is an ITU exhibition/ conference to be held every three years.

The current mobile sector is dominated by a fierce battle between OSs from the likes of Microsoft, Symbian, Linux, Opera and many others. Even if a significant evolution is under way, no vendor would be able to dominate the market. Microsoft will not...

Pushed by a recent forecast that its revenues could flatten at best, and recent or anticipated moves in the market, Vodafone seems to draw lessons and refine its strategy. Pure mobile-only operators are threatened by fixed mobile convergence (most continental...