Fixed vendor strategies - 28/06/06

Telent (ex Marconi assets not bought by Ericsson) have been acquired by investment group Holmar Holdings for £346m.

Nokia and Siemens would be allowed to put in a single bid for the big BSNL main lines tender.

ECI Telecom is ranked No. 1 transmission equipment vendor in India by CyberMedia;

Adaptix has released a suite of third-generation WiMAX equipment based dense "micro-cell" layouts and supporting IEEE standard 802.16e-2005 standard for mobile WiMAX, as well as MIMO or 3GPP' s LTE standard.

Nokia is trialling mobile TV in Sweden using DVB-H technology with Teracom and Partners.