Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola plans to develop a complete Java Micro Edition (Java ME) software stack for mobile handsets, using the Apache License Version 2.0.

RAD Data (Israel) has been selected by Bezek to provide Ethernet over SDH Service CPEs. ZTE will build NGN gateway for Multiregional Transit Telecom (MTT) in Russia. Juniper and Siemens have delivered Networks SDX service deployment system and E-series...

Nokia has signed a €180m contract with Vodafone Australia for engineering and maintenance services over seven years. It also signed a GPRS contract with China Mobile Guandong. It has received an order for service delivery platform and managed services...

ZTE announced a 50% drop in 3Q06 to $10m, and 47% drop in 9-mo net earnings to $57m. Revenues increased 15% to $687m in the quarter. Alvarion reported 3Q06 revenues of $54m, up 20%, and a net loss (on a GAAP basis) of $2m (vs a net loss of 5M a year ago)....

FCC has once again delayed a scheduled vote on AT&T- BellSouth merger clearance. Kenia has chosen its Second National Operator (SNO) and granted Vtel (Dubai) a "unified" licence for fixed and mobile services. Vtel has paid $170m for the licence for local...

Televisa (Mexico-based broadcaster) plans to invest uo to $ 500m to provide triple-play services over the next three years, and $280m in Cablevisión's provision of telephony services (its cable TV unit). Google could soon announce that its Google Talk...

O2 Germany is planning to enter the DSL market, offering converged mobile, DSL landline and internet services. Telkom Kenia could become a mobile operator, when a full operating concession to cover wireline, wireless and data services is granted to it....

Base (Belgium) had 2.2m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept. Rogers Comm. (Canada) had 6.5m mobile subscribers (up 3%)qoq, 1.25m broadband internet connections, 2.3m basic video subscriptions and 1.1m digital cable subscribers. MTS (Belarus) reported...

Base (Belgium) announced 3Q06 revenues of €159m, up 15%, an EBITDA of €71m, up 31% and ARPU of €25. TDC (Denmark) reports 3Q06 sales of €1.6bn, up 1%, EBITDA of €469m, up 4%, and net profit of €85m, down 47%. Tele2 (Sweden) posts a 3Q06 EBITDA of €178m,...

DT will reconduct CEO contract for 3 years. Tekelec has fired 20% of its employees in the switching unit.