Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia and Siemens have delayed the merger of their telecom activities to the first quarter of 2007, instead of 1 January 2007. It seems that on going investigation inside the Siemens Telecom group has led both companies to review their agreements in order...

Several groups have announced interest in Hutchison Essar, a JV between HTIL (67%) and Essar group (33%) in India. Some did not, but are believed to be. First rumors appeared that two US private equity firms (Blackstone and TPG) would be interested in...

Greenpeace surveys the IT sector. In its latest report, called Green Electronics, it ranks IT manufacturers according to policies and processes set up when using most dangerous chemical products, including takeback and recycling. The Best In Class is...

A new study, from Halifax, gives some interesting statistics about mobile phone usage by children. More than 75% of 7 to 16 year-old children have their own mobile phone. Penetration increases from 57% in 7-11 segment to 94% for the 12-16 segment. The...

NA is the only world region where CDMA is the technology market leader. It is quite normal as the technology is born there. Today, CDMA technology accounts for 50% of the overall NA cellular market by customers, with GSM following with about 38% and AMPS/TDMA...

Radio' s dangers Typical exposure to low level electromagnetic radiation from WiFi is well below recommended levels , so a year sitting in a classroom near a wireless network is roughly equivalent to 20 minutes calling on a mobile phone. It is worth noting...

UWB Gets European Approval The European Commission approves ultrawideband. The Commission is recommending, in line with the Radio Spectrum Committee, 3.4 to 5 GHz and 6.0 to 8.5 GHz bands for initial deployment, with possible extension to 9GHz later....

EU: national regulators in question It is an evidence in Europe, the telecom sector is far from harmonized and competition is uneven across the Union. The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) has released a new report to score 17...

ATT and Bellsouth are trying to get approval to their merger from March 06. Up to now, the five members of the FCC general counsel were split 2 pros and 2 cons, with the fifth, McDowell, refusing to vote for ethical reasons (employment by CLEC CompTel...

According to The Mobile World, there are now over 2.6bn mobile users in the world, and the number should grow to 2.7bn by the end of the year. Mobile density should currently be just below 40%. Annual net additions should exceed 500m this year. Out of...