Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

The local regulator Anacom has released its 3Q06 statistics. There were almost 12m mobile subscribers (+7%), of which 80% are prepaid. While fixed-to-mobile calls declined 8% over last year, international traffic increased 43%. Furthermore the international...

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, smartphone phone sales increased by 50% in 1H06, after tripling over the two previous years. Strategy Analysis minimizes the impact of announced municipal fiber networks in cities...

NEC and Juniper are partnering on FMC systems for carriers. They target developing IMS/FMC systems for service providers that are "intelligent, secure, and open." Alcatel has sued Microsoft for patent infringement, after notifying Microsoft of what it...

Cisco has shipped its 10 millionth Unified IP Phone.

Amid of BSNL/Motorola hearing in India being delayed until end November, Ericsson calls for a quick decision on BSNL tender. Sony, NXP Semiconductors announced a joint venture to develop a secure chip that uses near-field communications (NFC) for financial...

Redline will deploy the first WiMAX network in Iraq for IRAQTEL. Nortel will provide a nationwide optical backbone for ITPC (Iraq), under a contract worth $20m. Harmonic has garnered a contract from TV Cabo, a subsidiary of PT Multimedia, Portugal, for...

Oi (mobile unit of Telemar, Brazil) has selected Telcordia to provide its converged application server for developing voice and data services. Alcatel wins Cingular order to provide its multiservice transport solution in its HSDPA network. Motorola and...

Symbian reports 3Q06 sales up 44% to €60m, shipping some 13m Symbian OS units in the quarter. HP closed its fiscal year with 4Q06 net profit of $ 1.7bn, up 500%, on sales uo 7% to $24.6bn. Its fiscal year net profit amounted to $6.2n, up 158%, on revenues...

KPN should be interested in buying One, the third largest mobile operator in Austria, if EON decides to sell its 50% stake in One. The sale of Telstra shares should bring some $12bn, almost double than expected, to the Australian government. FT and LongBoard...

DT has unveiled talks between T-Systems, its service unit to businesses, and French Atos Origin. CapGemini and EDS should also be in talks with T-Systems. It is unclear what is the purpose of the talks: merger, joint venture, partnership? Skype and FON...