Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

China is manufacturing a €100 PC. It is not an OLPC (One Laptop per Child) developed by the MIT, but a classic low-cost PC developed for the rural Chinese population. The Tian En GX-2 is manufactured by Sichuan Sinomatic Technology in Chengdu, and includes...

OPERA (Open PLC European Research Alliance) will launch the second phase of its project of boosting BPL adoption in Europe. The first phase was made of the adoption of the broadband over powerline technology at 200Mbit/s and developed by 37 companies....

Cisco bought Reactivity, a vendor of XML-processing appliances., for about $135m. Alcatel-Lucent invests in WiMAX semiconductor supplier Sequans, and joins WiMAX Forum board of directors. Mosaid Technologies will buy WiFi – WiMAX patents from Agere for...

Cisco has won pole position in the cable VOIP market from Nortel in 4Q06, according to Dell'Oro. Cisco controlled about 18% of the market, ahead of Nortel with 14.4% (down from over 20% in 3Q06). ADC has opened a new manufacturing facility in Lexington,...

Samsung said it will gradually suspend production of CDMA handsets in Brazil, following the Vivo decision to move to GSM. For the fun: a Dutch mobile start-up, Waleli, has announced its Waleli GSM doorbell product Cisco and Nokia have announced enhancements...

ADVA will supply BT 21CN with access and network termination optical equipment. Alcatel-Lucent/ SFR will deploy up to 400 free WiFi hotspots in 134 public sites and 128 muni locations in Paris, France. It will deploy an an IP/MPLS network to Armenian...

Alcatel-Lucent has won E-plus contrcat for managing its network in Germany. UTStarcom has signed a CDMA all-IP network to Telenor' s subsidiary Maritime Communications Partner (MCP).

Motorola warns of lower performance in coming months. While pursuing gains in mobile phone market share, it is now also focusing on margin improvement after strong gross-margin compression in 4Q06. It will improve its 3G handset portfolio to be more competitive...

AT&T won a huge $1bn managed services deal with GM worldwide. Is Alltel (US) for sale? The company is reviewing strategic options. Joost, the peer-to-peer video distribution platform, has signed its first shows and movies licensing deal with Viacom. Orascom...

Vonage may be considering becoming MVNO. After selling some WiFi phone service (through EarthLink), Vonage may be interested a bigger mobile venture in selling WiFi/ cellular converged service. A rumor is just a rumor.... PT Telkom (Indonesia) has signed...