Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, 40% PBX/Phone System Management and Telecom Expense Management will be out-tasked., as well as Managed Network Services (MNS) for security, storage and hosting adoption rate will...

Siemens is introducing HiPath MobileConnect product, a new fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution, bringing Wi-Fi/GSM convergence to enterprises. Ericsson has made an hostile $1.4bn bid for Tandberg TV. JDSU will acquire Picolight,a datacom transceiver...

BigBand Networks plans to sell up to 12m shares through an IPO worth about $148m. Mindspeed Technologies and systems vendor Terawave announced a collaboration work on an all-in-one chip for GPON, available in 4Q07. Ciena announced the CN 5060 multiservice...

AnyData has launched the smallest USB HSDPA ADU-610 modem in the world. Samsung SDI has developed the world's thinnest liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to be used in mobile phones. LG will launch low-cost GPS-enabled products. Alcatel-Lucent has introduced...

ECI Telecom has completed the first phase of building an advanced metro optical network for Urktelecom (Ukraine). 200 sites in nine regions were deployed. It will also deliver FTTP backbone to Jaguar Telecom (USA). Alcatel-Lucent got Illinois' largest...

Ericsson has won a 3-year contract (sole supplier) to expand IDEA Cellular network in India. Alcatel-Lucent was awarded a €0.6bn 3-year outsourcing contract by E-Plus in Germany. 750 E-Plus employees would be switched to Alcatel-Lucent under the deal....

Several large shareholders in Wataniya (or NMT) in Kuwait are considering selling their combined 51% stake in the company. As expected, the European Commission has launched lawsuit against Germany, after it ignored EU warnings about exempting DT to open...

Swisscom will trial WiMAX in the city of Boltigen from April. Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) will bid for one of the six WiMAX licenses. Oi (Brazil) has launched a PHS network and service in Brazil. Oi is the mobile unit of fixed line operator Telemar. SFR...

BenQ Mobile failed to find a buyer. So, BenQ will be liquidated and sold in pieces. Vodafone has extended HSDPA services to 6 new cities in Romania. Anacom, the Portuguese telecom regulator, plans to introduce MVNOs in the country. China Unicom' strategy...

Wataniya (or NMT) in Kuwait has 4m subscribers in Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Maldives. Unefon (Mexico) reports 1.3m subscribers at the end of 2006. Taiwan reports that 3G user number has surged 157% to 3.4m in 2006. The Indian government...