Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

The World Economics Forum has published its 2006-2007 GITR (Global Information Technology Report) with ranking countries according to their network readiness capacity. The first comment is the strong position of North European countries (5 in top10 and...

A few set of market information released this week: According to a group of experts, the current GPS system (Global positioning system) could be impacted by strong solar blowing up in the next four years. According to 3G Americas, there were 107 live...

NextWave is buying IPWireless for $25m in cash and $75m in stock plus $135m more based on the achievement of some revenue milestone between 07 and 09. Apple claims 100m iPods were shipped up to now. ALU and Siemens are among the investors in Genband'...

ALU announced the clearance decision by the EU Commission of the transfer of its space activities (Alcatel Alenia Space (67%) and Telespazio (33%), to Thales. In return, ALU interest in Thales has increased to 21%. Entropic and RF Magic will merge to...

The Nokia- Qualcomm licensing agreement has expired, but the dispute continues. NEC has developed a corn-based bioplastic for use in mobile phones and other portable devices. Palm is rumored to bundles Opera' s browser with its devices. LG Mobile continues...

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Pipex Wireless have joined hands to increase the availability of WiMAX services in the UK. Orca is selected by Lattelecom (Latvia) for ts IPTV middleware in the first Baltic MPEG4 IPTV service.

ALU has won a contract from SFR (France) to deploy UMTS/HSDPA equipment in France. In addition, ALU and SFR have signed a strategic technology deal, allowing SFR to access ALU' s 3G competence center based in France. Ericsson will upgrade MTN Uganda mobile...

Indonesia is re-forging its plan to develop telecom services in all rural areas, in spite of a relative failure in the previous plan (only 16% of the forecast fund were collected, and 59% of Indonesian villages currently have no access to telecom services)....

EVN (Electricity of Vietnam) Telecom has invested $200m in a submarine cable system linking Vietnam to Guam, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the Philippines. The system is likely to be operational in 1Q08. Club-Internet' s (DT unit in France)...

SK Telecom (S. Korea) has open a test area for TD-SCDMA mobile technology in S. Korea. KDDI plans to enter the US market with MVNO services, renting the network from Sprint Nextel. MasterCard has launched a free service allowing cardholders to use their...