Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola is expected to slash more jobs in addition to the 3,500 layoffs it already announced. Shri Andimuthu Raja is the new Indian Minister of Environment & Forests. Telefonica plans to cut 1000 jobs in Germany (O2), in efforts to improve profitability....

Every Earth citizen should have in mind what to do to avoid Earth warming. It is not the case. Some years ago, many countries (most in fact) have signed the Kyoto protocol in order to limit pollution, with a n interesting exception of the US. It seems...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Berg Insight, 52m machines would be connected to mobile networks by 20011 in Europe, growing with a CAGR of almost 44%, from 4.5m machines connected in 2006. Remote meter reading and vehicule...

ALU buys NetDevices, a multiservice enterprise gateway vendor, for an undisclosed sum. Samsung will invest $216m to boost production of mobile phones in S. Korea. It also plans to build a plant in Vietnam.

Azurecomm will test its AzureMAX-2500™ software designed (SDR) 802.16e mobile WiMAX base station in late 2007. Nortel and Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) signed a MoU on collaborating on a range of wireless broadband and network solutions based on WiMAX technologies....

Nokia expects to boost its mobile phone market share in 2Q07, following Motorola' s current weakness. At the announcement, the stock increased 4%. Microsoft and nine vendors unveiled unified communications devices optimized for Microsoft Windows Office...

Fujitsu will upgrade the Japan-US submarine fiber-optic cable network for ATT, KDDI, NTT and few other operators. Veraz Networks has secured a deal with ONEMAX to supply IMS over WiMAX solutions. Nortel has been selected by TDC (Denmark) for advanced...

Ericsson has secured a backhaul contract with its microwave transmission system MINI-LINK TN for Mobitel (Bulgaria). Siemens has provided a 3G pilot network to MDC (Belarus).

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%.

Verizon Business announced the acquisition of Cybertrust, a privately held provider of global info security services, and becomes of one the most powerhouse in this business. Telmex plans to invest $400m per year in Argentina into broadband and mobile...