Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

ALU is working with Zyxel Communications on WiMAX CPE products. Nortel is teaming-up with Taiwanese equipment vendors to deliver an entire range of enterprise-use networking devices and solutions. Fujitsu demonstrates mobile WiMAX SoC (system on a ch...

Symbian is still leading the smartphone OS market with almost 16m Symbian units shipped in the quarter. Symbian has already sold 126m devices. Greener and greener: Motorola is testing a wind and solar power system to operate base stations. BenQ is selling...

ALU will upgrade Brasil TelecomGlobeNet' s 22,000-km submarine system linking the US with Latin America. Nortel will provide and manage hosted VoIP solutions to GISAD Telekom (Turkey).

NSN wins a $500m contract from Idea Cellular (India) for to managing and expanding its network. It also won a deal with Russia' s MTS to provide its 3G network. ALU secures deals worth $340m with China Mobile and $120m with China Unicom. Ericsson and...

Infinera reports 1Q07 revenues up 12% to $49m, and loss of $20m, compared to loss of $18m last year and loss of $25m in 4Q06. Infinera is going public soon. Huawei sees 2007 contract global sales at $15bn, up 36%. HP reports FY2Q revenues of $ 25.5bn,...

Vodafone and RealNetworks have signed a multi-year global partnership to support Vodafone' s music services across Europe. RealNetworks has bought Sony NetServices for $9m to expand mobile entertainment business. Teliasonera is eying expansion into the...

Direct TV (USA) plans to enter the broadband over powerline (BPL) access market, so in competition with one of its main customer ATT. Shortfall: NTT East reports a massive Internet breakdown, due to suspected equipment failure, affecting about 2.9m users...

Virgin Mobile is planing to launch MVNO services in India, helped by Tata Teleservices. China' s MII has finally set the technical specifications for WCDMA and CDMA 2000 technologies developed abroad. The move is a step closer to issuing 3G licenses....

Claro (Brazil) had 24.6m mobile subscribers at the end of March, up 30%. Indotel, the Dominican Republic telecom regulator, reported 5.8m fixed and mobile telephony lines in service, or a teledensity of 64%. True (Thailand) had 8.1m mobile subscribers...

Claro (Brazil) reported 1Q07 revenues of $1.1bn (+21%) and an EBITDA of $295m (+147%). True (Thailand) posts 1Q07 net profit of $14m 5 (down 58%) and EBITDA rose 28% qoq. Telefonica announced 1Q07 net income up almost 8% to €1.26bn, on revenues up 15%...