Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Alcatel-Lucent announced a new enhancement to its multi-service WAN portfolio for cost-effective, high-capacity mobile aggregation of 3G voice, data and multimedia traffic. It also announced the OmniSwitch 9800, a 10-Gigabit Ethernet core switch, with...

Nokia is dusting off its N-Gage product and will introduce a new platform for sophisticated mobile games across a variety of devices. Most of their S60 devices will support the new platform by 2008. It has successfully carried out the first High Speed...

Alcatel-Lucent will provide PT Indosat (Indonesia) with an IP/MPLS solution, allowing fixed and mobile convergence, and triple play services. Alcatel-Lucent will support DT in the development and introduction of innovative integrated telecommunication...

ZTE will provide a CMDA 2000 platform for 3G services to ClearTalk Wireless (US). Nortel has received its Xmas gift: a $2bn contract from Verizon Wireless to expand its CDMA network capacity and footprint. Nokia got a $100m contract from Advanced Info...

According to some analysts, Motorola 4Q06 results could be hit by generally weak demand in the NA handset market and a slow start of its new product line. Oracle reports FY2Q07 results with net income of $967m, up 21%, on revenues of $4.2bn, up 26% (both...

Greece plans to sell 20% of its incumbent operator OTE, and is looking for a strategic partner. Google is launching its new Google Patent Search, dedicated to search patents. In a first step, the search engine will only work on US patents. DoCoMo plans...

Telefonica may buy Getronics to improve its VOIP offerings. KT (S. Korea), Verizon, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom and Chunghwa Telecom and Tyco will build a new 18,000-km undersea cable between South Korea, China, Taiwan and the United States....

Orange may be talking with Google on a multi billion dollars project to compress data, accelerate connection speed and mobile quality in a Google-branded mobile phone. MTC (Kuwait) may bid for Paktel (Pakistan) if Millicom, its current owner exits the...

Vodafone Germany currently has over 30m mobile subscribers. China Mobile has 296.4m mobile users and is the largest mobile operator in the world by customers. China Unicom reported 105m mobile GSM subscribers and 36.1m CDMA customers. China Telecom added...

LG Electronics has appointed Yong Nam as the new vice chairman and CEO, effective 1 January 2007. Henry Gomez will become new Skype president, replacing Alex Kazim returning to eBay. Dennis Strigl, current Verizon Wireless chief, will take over the newly...