Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

A few set of market information released this week: According to MII, China is expected to have more than 600m mobile phone users by 2010. Heavy Reading reports that the global carrier Ethernet switch/router market grew 16% in 4Q06 to $432m, and 105%...

Ericsson is on the way to buy Tandberg TV, as Tandberg has endorsed the Ericsson deal, and Arris do not want to follow and increase previous bid offer. Nortel is making India as its Asian hub for network managed services.

ALU has introduced four new IP/MPLS products, including the Service Router Operating System release 5.0 for its IP service router and Ethernet service switch platforms; release 5.0 for its 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM); a new 6-slot, 80Gbit/s chassis...

Nokia said it deployed a software update application that will allow its customers to update the software on their Nokia phones on their own. The service is available at www.nokia.com/softwareupdate . Panasonic announced the availability of the Panasonic...

ZTE has delivered its first Class 5 softswitch in the UK to Global e Networks. Amdocs has received orders from VSNL (India) for OSS. Ilevo (Schneider Electric) has been selected to provide the Paris Community (France) with Broadband Power line (BPL) equipment...

ALU has deployed EDGE on TIMB GSM 900-1800 network (Bandladesh). Nokia will supply a GSM/EDGE core and radio network to Tusmobile (Slovenia), as well as managed services and operating the network. Ericsson will deploy HSDPA in Austrian Mobilkom.

ALU confirms 2007 growth outlook. In spite of a forecast poor 1Q07 quarter, Pat Russo believes in a 5% growth rate in 2007 revenues.

The East-African submarine project EASSY has been renamed the Nepad Broadband Infrastructure Network (NBIN). China is launching a 5-year program to promote the industrialization and application of 3G and the enhanced technologies such as TD-SCDMA. MII...

Neuf Cegetel (France) is fully entering the fiber optic network race against FT and Free, with a new offer consisting of a very high speed triple play access for €30 a month to ba available next month. The target is ambitious with over 1m households passed...

Hutchison 3G UK is launching a new range of free-to-access ad-supported content for customers on its Planet 3 portal. France has launched 3G licensing race for the fourth WCDMA UMTS license worth €619m. The deadline for submissions is 31 July. DT has...