Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

The announcement comes at an appropriate time when the mobile industry is facing a range of lawsuits on this topic. The study, conducted by Danish and American epidemiologists, concludes that mobile phones do not pose a health risk to consumers, and they...

Motorola has successfully completed the demonstration of alternative power systems for remote GSM Base Stations (BTS). A combination of solar cells and wind turbines can generate enough power to drive a mid-sized base station and a microwave backhaul...

The technology, dubbed Erasable Paper, creates prints that only last for a day, then fades away. So the paper can be used over and over. They first started from the observation that there is still a strong dependence on the printed page for reading and...

A few set of market information released this week: In-Stat found that total telco TV headend revenue opportunity would reach $869m in 2010. According to ABI Research, the ruggedized mobile device market would reach $9.2bn by 2011, while the semi-ruggedized...

Cisco plans to hire 4,000 employees in India and triple its local workforce, create in India a Globalization Center to support its worldwide operations and confirms $1.1bn commitment to India including a new Bengalore plant, and R&D and training support...

Intel has completed the design of its first mobile WiMAX chip. Combined with the multi-band WiMAX/Wi-Fi radio chip, they formed the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300. Direct on PC (DOPC) (Nigeria) would deploy pre-WiMAX 802.16e solution for launching wireless...

Navini will supply WiMAX gear in three cities for DOPC in Nigeria. Ciena will provide Verizon with its CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switches across its terrestrial and undersea trans-Atlantic cable network. Redback has won the second phase of deploying...

Ericsson has been selected by Cyprus' Cyta for providing its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. It will provide Chile' s Entel PCS to migrate its mobile network to an all-IP network that will support voice, data and 3G services. Motorola has received...

Huawei announced full-year 2006 contract sales could reach $11bn. Huawei plans $15m sales in 2007, up 36%. SeaChange reported 3Q06 sales at $42m, up 20%, and a net loss of $1m, half that one year ago.

NTL (UK) has abandoned talks with ITV (UK) on a possible takeover bid. In Portugal, the competition authority, the Autoridade da Concorrencia (AdC), has published its second draft "conditional" approval of Sonae' s hostile takeover bid for Portugal Telecom...