Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Mobile phone sales have increased 21.5% in 3Q06 to 251m units, according to Gartner. Nokia has maintained its pole position with over 35% market share, up 2.5 points. Motorola increased also its position to 20.6%, up two points. Samsung is third with...

EU has decided to invest some 18% of its R&D budget (worth €50bn over the 2006-2013 period) or €9bn, in research on information technology and communications. The effort underlines the EU's determination to close the research gap with its competitors,...

According to Kapersky Lab, the anti-virus software house, there were now only few mobile viruses in the market.They have names Comwar3.0, Mobler.a, Acallno or Wesber. Some are using file infesting technologies (Comwar, Mobler for both Symbian and Windows...

It is done. The IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has voted in favor of 100 Gbit/s as the next standard speed for Ethernet. It closes a period of uncertainty with a lot of proposals (serious or less realistic) on what speed ( 40G, 80G, 100G,...

A new study from CA Cheuvreux said that new ICTs are opportunities for traditional medias rather than threats. Of course, there will be a transfer between traditional TV and Internet (IPTV, VOD) in term of audience, but new ICT will give more flexibility...

In France, the number of fixed subscriptions is now plateauing at a housjhold teledensity of 82% for the first time in ten years, stopping the decline of 13 points in 15 years. According to Credoc, demand for broadband internet connectivity and triple-play...

A few set of market information released this week: Strategy Analytics forecasts that there would be 500m mobile broadband subscribers by 2010, but that new alternative technologies (WiMAX, TDD, ..;) will only contribute just 6%. HSPA and ED-VO RevA....

Alvarion is selling its Cellular Mobile unit for $15m to LG Wireless, and targets to focus on WiMAX. Alvarion reports that it has more than 120 active WiMAX trials up and running. ZTE will distribute its products in India through privately-owned MCorpGlobal,...

Siemens has failed selling its loss-making Enterprise Networks unit and ended talks. It will sell its Public Communication Networks Pvt unit in India to Nokia Siemens Networks, the 50-50 JV between Siemens and Nokia. Tellabs intends offering full-range...

ZTE will debut TD-SCDMA base stations, while Datang will test TD-SCDMA in Hong Kong Motorola is increasing its TETRA portfolio, adding MTC100 TETRA PDA (a rugged data device), and a new Dimetra IP Compact, a highly scalable switch for TETRA private network...