Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) has named Joseph Shieh as its new CFO.

Europe had 39m WCDMA subscribers (+140%) at Sept.-end, and added 5.9m 3G users in 3Q06. Penetration was still low at about 1% of the population, but WCDMA accounted for more than 28% of the added customers in 3Q06. WCDMA represented about 6.5% of total...

The German Upper House of Parliament (Bundesrat) has approved a new bill that allows DT to close its new ultra-high-speed fiber-optic network to rivals, violating EU laws. If signed by Germany's President, the bill will come into effect in January 07....

We know that the submarine cable systems market is cyclical, and after a turmoil period between 2000 and 2005, the submarine cable systems market is getting back colors. In the mid of the year, there were few regional system projects, such as Gondwana-1...

The end of the year is traditionally a propitious period for making predictions. Gartner is used to do that. Its latest 10 key predictions for 2007 include: the market share for the top 10 IT outsourcers will decline 3.5 points to 40.0% by 2009. Increased...

But is it a survey and can results be trusted? 50 families in Sweden were lent a Nokia N92, which has mobile TV reception, and were asked to test the service during two months. The results, announced by the two sponsors Teliasonera and Nokia, include...

The FCC approved new rules allowing incumbent telcos (with local rights-of-way for their wires) to gain local video franchise rights no later than three months after they file an application. For other new service provider, the order sets a 6-month cap....

TI has confirmed it will go forward with its announced restructuring into four business units: fixed, mobile, network and Top Client/ICT. At the heart of this reorganization is the convergence convergence between fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony,...

Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Conexant and Sunrise Telecom have joined the HomePNA Alliance board. Ericsson did not exclude more acquisitions. It could be interested by small, but well paced firms in the PON/ GPON domains, such as Entrisphere, even if Tellabs...

Alcatel Alenia Space has received a contract from Eutelsat to manufacture and deliver Eutelsat' s W7 communications satellite.