Global vendor strategies - 07/10/06

Finmeccanica is approving the planned merger between Alcatel' s and Thales' satellite operations.

Siemens has stopped an €117m payment to BenQ.

OpenWave Systems is buying SoloMio, a provider of integrated subscriber call management services.

Siemens sold its digital central office (DCO) circuit-switched business to Genband.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.