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Western Europe mobile Capex It is an evidence saying WE mobile market is close saturation and the network infrastructure capex is mainly driven by replacement equipment and migration to 3G and NGN core networks. This translates into a relatively strong...

Ericsson is buying the Australian company TUSC, a subsidiary of Sydney-listed Allied Technologies, specialized in systems integration for telecommunications.

AT&T is back As expected, SBC closed its merger deal with AT&T and took the name of AT&T. AT&T is now rolling out its new image, and will launch a new logo. In addition, SBC management said it will also launch a mobile service under the AT&T brand. Remember,...

Mobile infrastructure market Dell'Oro reports its 3Q05 mobile market assessment. The market value rose 6%, thanks to GSM and WCDMA equipment sales. The market for GSM/GPRS/EDGE market grew 12% to $6,1bn, while the WCDMA market grew 8%. The CDMA market...

GSM dominance About 80% of mobile subscribers (or 1.6bn people) are using GSM-based services. In 12 months, GSM added 381m new customers, more than the entire customer base of any other mobile digital technology. More than 670 mobile service providers...

UN bless ICANN' s Internet management In World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) pre-meetings, negotiators finally agreed on a compromise: ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will continue to run the Internet network and...

Cisco announced a deal to buy Scientific Atlanta for about $7bn. What is the strategy behind this deal, one of the largest acquisitions ever for Cisco? Video, Video and Video. First Cisco acknowledged it was not enough aggressive in the IPTV market and...

Microsoft' strategy Microsoft is trying to turn every PC into a potential TV. The idea was in the air, but Microsoft teamed with Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs), to connect PCs directly to cable feed, bypassing the cable modem and the IP infrastructure....

IBM, Sony, Philips, Red Hat and Novell have formed Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization to share Linux patents without royalties. The move is aimed to solve ownership rights problems encountered by distributors (represented by Red Hat and Novell)...

Consumers want more mobile in service packages According to In-Stat, telcos are not providing mobile in their service packages as frequently as customers would like. Only 18% of current bundle subscribers have mobility, even if 32% want to include mobility...