Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia and Skype will develop the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet with Skype. Nokia launches a range of devices at CES, including the N76, 6131 NFC phone, N93i with camcorder and Vox support.

Motorola and Comcast have expanded their multi-year purchase agreement for digital set-tops. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy a WiMAX pilot in the North Sea for OLF (Norway). ADVA Optical Networking is providing its FSP 150 family through Exponential-e to the...

MediaFLO is partnering with Viacom's MTV Networks, with CBS, and with FOX to enhance its Mobile Entertainment Service. Telkomsel (Indonesia) plans to invest $1.5bn to expanf network with 5, 000 new base stations (BTS) this year.

Canar Telecom (Sudan) has launched the country's first 3G network. This network would be based on a Wi-Fi system.

China' s major telecom operators may need to quickly raise as much as $13bn to build and maintain the required 3G new networks. Verizon will launch mobile TV service, V Cast Mobile TV, over Qualcomm' s MediaFLO network in the first quarter. The service...

S. Korea had 40m+ mobile subscribers at the end of Dec 06, including almost 13m from KT, 20.3 m from SKT, and 7m from LG. Hutchison Whampoa has over 14m 3G subscribers worldwide.

BenQ Mobile is firing 310 employees at its Manaus (Brazil) plant.

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According to EITO, the ICT market in Europe should be worth €644bn (+3.1%) in 2006, of which 48%n for IT markets (+3.8%) and 52% for IC markets (+2.5%). The gap in dynamics between IT and IC markets would broaden in 2007 with growth of 4.2% and 1.7% respectively....

According to Mobile World, the top 5 European mobile markets accounted for 315.5m customers at the end of the third quarter 2006. Countries Mobile users (in million) Penetration Germany 79.4 96.4% Italy 76.5 131.7% UK 66.4 109.4 France 47.5 78% Spain...