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Happy Birthday Telcoflash!
End of January is a milestone for Telcoflash. We celebrate the third birthday of the newsletter and the second of its web life. Telcoflash was launched in early 2004 and in January 2005 the blog Telcoflashnews was opened in order to make information retrieval...
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Alcatel-Lucent: Day 1
Alcatel has bought Lucent and the new company has started operations today. The giant has sales of about €19bn, equally split between Eurooe, North America and ROW, with Pat Russo at the helm and S. Tchuruck as non-executive president. The company has...
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Top stories 10-01-05- N46
10-01- After years of focus on consumer and computer markets, CES show (the biggest consumer show in the world) last week added personal communications. So, consumer and computer firms are put on a collision course, with telecom and cable companies. This...
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Top stories 24-01-05 N48
Lucent is "working on a data-focused disruptive technology" to sell into UMTS markets, according to Pat Russo, Lucent s CEO. We do not know yet what she meant, but some new wireless developments will be showcased early February in next annual 3GSM show...
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Top stories N49
SBC ATT : the hot topic of this weekend is the possible merger between SBC and ATT. Ailing ATT could be bought by its former spin-off in a $15bn deal. It could mark the end of a downward spiral for ATT, the most powerful operator in the 70s. Banned from...
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Top Stories N50
Market consolidation : the transaction SBC-ATT is official. For $ 16m, SBC will take over ATT, its former mother company. But with this deal, consolidation is not over in the US market. The latest rumor is Qwest and Verizon interested buying MCI. Qwest...
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Top stories N51
Market consolidation : Qwest started first to talk with MCI on merger deal, but Verizon remained close. While Qwest and MCI have overlapping businesses, a Verizon/ MCI proposition looks more complementary for analysts. In addition, Verizon financial power...
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Top stories (2) N52
IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) and FMC (fixed-mobile convergence): were real hot topics in the 3GSM World Congress this year. Both are related to the concept of managing and delivering services to fixed and mobile users across a single core...
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Top stories (1) N52
HSDPA : another hot topic in Cannes ( France ). HSDPA stands for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access. 'Super 3G' as it is sometimes called, is the first major enhancement to the W-CDMA 3G standard to achieve higher data rates (up to 10 Mbit/s) and lower...
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Optical fiber market N55
Optical Fiber market: Corning forecast the optical fiber market to grow 30% this year in NA, 10% in Europe , flat in China and decline 40% in Japan . The worldwide demand is about 55m fiber-kilometres and should remain flat. NA accounts for 30% of the...
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3G in China
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,...
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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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ATSI/ ETSI common work for NGN
ATSI/ ETSI work : The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATSI) and European Telecom Standardization Institute (ETSI) TISPAN Committee have met to discuss standardization activities and future plans for next-generation networks. Four areas...
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MCI/ Qwest series
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....
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European ICT market growing
According to EITO, the European information technology and telecommunications (ICT) market should rise 3% in 2006 to €644bn. Information technology market should grow 3.8% to €305bn, while the telecom market is to increase by 2.5% to €339bn. 2007 forecast...
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Qualcomm, Broadcom patent dispute
Their dispute last for months and is not finished. The case is raised by Broadcom saying that Qualcomm infringe three Broadcom patents. Last ruling decided that Qualcomm did infringe on one of the three Broadcom patents, but Qualcomm says the patent is...
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WiMAX World wrap up
WiMAX World was held in Boston last week. It is a good occasion to review top vendor's offerings. Alvarion introduced a “low-cost” WiMAX system in the 3.5GHz and 5.8GHz frequency bands, with built-in WiFi connectivity. Nortel unveiled its mobile WiMAX...
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BSNL huge GSM contract status
Ericsson and Nokia were the lowest bidders among the five vendors shortlisted for the $5bn GSM mobile network expansion contracts. Siemens will be part of Nokia contract, when they merge. Motorola and ZTE were dropped from the process of selection for...
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AT&T-BellSouth
A major hurdle in the ATT-Bellsouth merger has been cleared with the Department of Justice decision to approve the merger plan, without any competitive or consumer conditions . The final hurdle will be to get the FCC approval. The vote was scheduled for...
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Google buys YouTube
It was in the air during past week, now it is official. Google has bought YouTube, the the internet video-sharing success story, for $1.65bn. YouTube is a young company, created in 02/05, that has built an exciting and powerful media platform that attracted...
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NCTA 2005 focus
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...
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Satellite Broadband
Satellite Broadband: according to Northern Sky Research, the global market for satellite broadband services will increase from $2.7bn in 2004 to $4bn in 2009, a 7.8% CAGR. The number of subscribers is expected to double to 1.7m by 2009, 30% made of SMEs....
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CALA cellular market evolution
CALA cellular market (LATAM and Caribbean markets): the landscape has totally changed over the past few years. From a TDMA fortress ten years ago, the market has successively adopted CDMA then GSM technologies. There are currently nearly 100 GSM operators...
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Earnings season is back
Earnings season is back. The fortunes of telecom vendors were quite different: hot for some (Motorola, Tellabs, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, or SA,..), rosy for few (Lucent, Juniper, ..), or really bitter for few others (Adtran, Foundry, TCL comms, ..). But...
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Broadband over power lines
Broadband over power lines (BPL) is quickly gaining ground as a viable alternative to the other delivery platforms such as DSL, FTTx (fiber), cable modem Docsis or satellite. The solution consists in using power wires to transport high-speed data streams...