Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Wavesat has announced the availability of a 3.3-3.5GHz Mini-PCI design to help equipment manufacturers to bring WiMAX equipment sooner to market. Silver Peak Systems, a startup WAN accelerator marker, picked up $17m in third funding round, bringing total...

Motorola plans to launch 3G mobile phones based on TI customized chips. TI could sell as much as $25 worth of chips per handset. TI would also supply Motorola with WiMAX chips for its future handsets available in 2008. Nokia has signed an agreement with...

Juniper Networks is providing Intelig with IP/MPLS network upgrades. It also has been selected by BT to provide routers and security solutions for the U.K.'s Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) project. BigBand has deployed switched digital...

Motorola has won a TETRA contract with the Munich Airport. Huawei : another big footprint in Europe with the selection by FT for supplying UMTS equipment. It replaces Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola in Romania, Nortel in Belgium. It has completed its CDMA2000...

Nokia said its Russian sales were €1.5bn, up 8%, in 2006. Nokia holds a 25.5% market share in Russia. Juniper Networks reports 4Q06 revenues of $596m, slightly above expectations, and up 4%, while full year revenues were $2.3bn, up 12%. Harris Stratex...

EU Court upheld a €10m antitrust fine on FT for abusing its position to monopolise the market. Telecom NZ plans to buy PowerTel (Australia) for $275m. Telenor has been backed by a Geneva arbitration tribunal in its dispute with Altimo/ Alfa (Russia) on...

CVG Telecom (Venezuela) has signed a deal to lay a submarine fiber-optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela. Telecom operators in Argentina (Telecom Argentina, Telefónica and Telmex's CTI) plan to invest $320m to develop IPTV services in the country. Telecom...

China has rolled out 4G in Shanghai, within a project called the « FuTURE Project ». 3G is not yet available in the country, but it has issued Network Accessing License to 16,000 TD-SCDMA mobile phones. Iran is considering licensing a third mobile operator...

Mobilkom Austria will upgrade its A1 network with HSDPA at 7.2Mbit/s. Reliance (India) has received the green light from shareholders to spin-off of its mobile towers infrastructure. The new entity will be known as Reliance Telecom Infrastructure Limited...

DT had 33.2m fixed line subscribers in Germany, 31.4 m mobile subscribers in Germany and about 25m in the US (+15%) Its total mobile subscriber base is over 100m worldwide. Verizon Wireless gained 2.3m new users in 4Q06 to a total of 59.1m. Morocco ended...