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ATT- Bellsouth ATT will take over Bellsouth in an announced $67bn deal. The merger would create, if approved, a mammoth of 310,000+ workers, $150bn in capitalization, be the US main telecom operator combining ATT (SBC+ ATT) with Cingular and Bellsouth,...

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3G LTE IPR plan We can make mistakes, but not twice. It is in short what ETSI is thinking about Intellectual Property Rights for patents essential to mobile networks. WCDMA cumulative royalties currently are about $80-$100bn up to 2017. ETSI wants to...

Risk in airplanes? When I was young, it was forbidden using electronic devices in planes, and the ban was gradually only lifted some years ago. Children are now playing game devices, earing walkman, while adults are using laptops, DVDs, and cellphones....

Wireless local loop in China It is not a new market. Its is know as PHS (technology-related) or Little Smart (marketing label), and is a cheap wireless fixed service. With currently about 85m subscribers (+31%), and accounting for about 60% of new foxed...

Chinese mobile market It is well expected that China would grant 3G licenses in the next months. China is the first mobile market with the number of subscribers (current some 400m), with the number of new subscriber added each year (59m in 2005), with...

Legal music downloads: Euphoria Big numbers reveal the health of this market. First is Apple announcement of 1bn iTunes song downloads for the past three years. Second is the number of legal downloads in 2005 at 420m, up 169%, given by the International...

Cisco new strategy Cisco was mainly focused up to now delivering good products/ solutions on the growing markets, and we know the success of this strategy. But it recently acknowledged that what was missing in their portfolio was a systems integration...

Telcoflash is proud to deliver this week its hundredth issue. 100th Issue I did not think, when starting two years ago, reaching number 100. I did it and I am proud of it. I am ready to continue as long as you are still interested and regularly visit...

A few set of market information released this week: The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the TIA Association have announced new US estimates for FTTH deployments, currently passing over 3.6m U.S. Homes (+ 1m in four months). According to Analysys,...