Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

BT has decided to make money from its expertise in deploying NGN networks (its own 21CN NGN project) and creates a new dedicated unit, called 21C Global Venture (21C GV), to help other operators. Nine Telstra rivals, Optus, AAPT, iiNet, Powertel, Internode,...

China Mobile plans to go abroad and is interested to acquite phone companies in emerging countries. Asia and Africa are the main targets. Vodafone Egypt is considering buying a 3G licence in Egypt and launching there 3G services. Movistar Argentina plans...

Japan: In November, DoCoMo lost 17,500 subscribers (first ever drop), KDDI added 479k new subscribers and Softbank added 68,700 new subscribers. DoCoMo holds 55% of the Japanese mobile market, followed by KDDI with 28.5% and Softbank with 16.5%. DoCoMo'...

Google 's vice president Johnny Chou will leave the company. Michael Schueppert, CEO of Castle ’s mobile TV unit Modeo, will leave the company. Ravi Sharma has been appointed as Alcatel-Lucent president for South Asia, Yahoo 's COO Rosensweig quits the...

3G Americas reports that there are 290m mobile subscribers in Latam, of which 97m in Brazil, 53m in Mexico, 31m in Colombia, 27m in Argentina, 12.5m in Chile. Mobile penetration is uneven in the region, with Brazil reaching 60%, Mexico 76%, Colombia 83%,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to OC&C Strategy Consultants, there would be 6m mobile TV subscribers in France in 2013. In stat announces that the digital terrestrial TV set-top-box market would reach $1bn in 2009. Europe...

LSI Logic has acquired Agere Systems for $4bn. Agere develops chips for mobile. Alcatel-Lucent has finalized the acquisition of Nortel' s money-losing UMTS access business (UTRAN) for $320m in cash. It has signed a final agreement with Thales (France)...

Nortel will test WiMAX technology with Toshiba in Japan handling system integration and field tests, to support Japan’s National Broadband Connectivity by 2010 program. Huawei is partnering with BEA systems to accelerate telecom network operators' efforts...

Motorola is investing in Mobile Complete, the developer of DeviceAnywhere.com that provides remote access to handsets connected to major U.S. and European mobile operators. Huawei has completed test of HSDPA and video phone onto UMTS 900MHz. Aperto and...

Siemens/ ADVA have jointly been awarded a $13m order to upgrade Eircom (Ireland) FTTC network. Nortel has garnered a WiMAX contract to deploy the technology with Chungwa Telecom in Taiwan. Nortel will provide 802.16e-2005Wave 2 base stations with MIMO...