Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

WiMAX World was held in Boston last week. It is a good occasion to review top vendor's offerings. Alvarion introduced a “low-cost” WiMAX system in the 3.5GHz and 5.8GHz frequency bands, with built-in WiFi connectivity. Nortel unveiled its mobile WiMAX...

For about one year, Telenor and Altimo, the telecom arm of Alfa Group in Russia, have been in conflict to control Vimpelcom (Russia) and Kyivstar (Ukraine) both in shares and board seats. Alfa owns a 44% stake in Kyivstar, while Telenor owns 56%. Telenor...

Their dispute last for months and is not finished. The case is raised by Broadcom saying that Qualcomm infringe three Broadcom patents. Last ruling decided that Qualcomm did infringe on one of the three Broadcom patents, but Qualcomm says the patent is...

According to EITO, the European information technology and telecommunications (ICT) market should rise 3% in 2006 to €644bn. Information technology market should grow 3.8% to €305bn, while the telecom market is to increase by 2.5% to €339bn. 2007 forecast...

We have to acknowledge that 3G is slowly taking off. We are, more or less, on the same trend than 2G when it takes off almost two decades ago. 2G had the double handicap of new technology/ new service, and had to penetrate the mass market. Analysts thought...

Telco2.0 is a new industry body, formed with traditional telecom operators but cooperating with vendors and ISPs, to focus on developing new offers that will create new revenue streams on top of access. The move has been initiated by KT (Sth Korea). KT...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, fiber-based broadband accesses could be up to 42m worldwide by 2010, of which 20.5m in Japan, 8m in the US, Europe with 7m and South Korea with 6.3m. In Europe, Germany with 2.9m...

Siemens has signed a LOI to sell its assets in and intellectual property for its Optical Network Terminal (ONT) technology, supporting both BPON and GPON standards, to TXP, provider of pre-manufacturing services. TXP has also hired Siemens' former ONT...

Nortel unveiled its mobile WiMAX portfolio, including new MIMO base station transceivers, access service network gateways, mobile subscriber stations and network management systems. According to the company, its MIMO-powered WiMAX solution can deliver...

Samsung has launched a 10-megapixel mobile phone, the SCH-B600. Philips is going out of the mobile handset business by year end. It will transfer assets to China Electronics Corp. The unit had a turnover of $500m and about 240 people. Huawei plans to...