Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola has reaffirmed its strategic relationship with Freescale Semiconductor as a preferred supplier of 2G and 3G chipset platforms through 2009. UTStarcom will spin off its subsidiary Infinite Technology, which will now be called Relativity. IBM and...

Alcatel-Lucent and Freescale have signed a partnership agreement to jointly develop GPON technology and facilitate the adoption of fiber-to-the-home technologies. Alcatel-Lucent demonstrates multicast and inter-carrier MPLS interoperability.

Polycom will acquire SpectraLink for $220m. Microsoft will unveil its Windows Mobile 6 operating system next week in Barcelona. Mobile 6 will be the new brand for its OS family. BenQ Mobile reported worse than expected debt, putting additional pressure...

Juniper Networks has been selected by TeliaSonera for its Secure Access SSL VPN family of appliances. Alvarion will supply its BreezeMAX 350 WiMAX platform to UHT in Ukraine.

ZTE will supply 900k CDMA mobile phones to China Unicom

NEC announced FY 3Q07 net profit of €225m, up 45%, on revenues down 7% to €7bn. Huawei said its 2006 revenues were $8.5bn, up 45%.

Singtel (Singapore) plans to invest in Vietnam and would increase its stake in Bharti Airtel if Vodafone sells its 10% stake . ICE (Costa Rica) will no longer work with Alcatel-Lucent amid a deepening bribery scandal. Hindujas (India) will partner with...

Brasil Telecom plans to offer a Wi-Fi-based FMC service in 2007.

In Russia, five companies, of which MTS, Vimpelcom and Megafon, have requeste documentation necessary to participate in the beauty contest for the country's 3G licences. Vodafone and Orange are considering merging their their 3G RAN networks (radio access)...

America Movil eneded 2006 with 124.8m mobile subscribers. VIVO (Brazil) added 328k new customers in 4Q06 to bring its total to 29m. Japan' s mobile subsciber base exceeds 100m as of January 31, including PHS users.