Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia, Symbian, Freescale and Elektrobit have announced in February a joint project to develop a smartphone for fast 3G networks. The project is on schedule, seems significant to all parties, and could be finished next year. The group has confirmed that...

Could be the moto in the current telecom industry. Split then consolidate is another version already used; remember the mobile industry few years ago, and now the race to re-consolidate fixed and mobile businesses. But this memo is not is not on operators...

A few set of market information released this week: iSupply predicts that cell phone handset display shipments would reach 1.2bn units (+17%) in 2006. FTTH Council and TIA said that more than 6m households are passed in North America, and 1m are subscribers...

FT needs to react when 1m subscribers are leaving the operator and when French rivals are offering unbundled triple-play services. The first step of its strategy is a FMC offer, called Unik, we announced two weks ago. The second step is to revamp its...

Finmeccanica is approving the planned merger between Alcatel' s and Thales' satellite operations. Siemens has stopped an €117m payment to BenQ. OpenWave Systems is buying SoloMio, a provider of integrated subscriber call management services. Siemens sold...

NEC is targeting $6.7bn revenues in NG IP Network operations, of which $2.5bn in optical transmission revenues and $4.2bn in servers.

Qualcomm and Broadcom did not reach settlement on their patent infrengement case. Motorola is celebrating ten years of Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), the standard for professional mobile radio (PMR). Nokia trials mobile ticket in Finland. First application...

NDS is supplying Rom Telecom (Romania) with a new direct-to-home (DTH) platform. Thomson is providing BT with Home Hub Wireless DSL Residential Gateway. Nortel has received an order from Embratel (Brazil) for upgrading its fixed CDMA2000 1x network. Lucent...

Ericsson is supplying Claro Chile, a subsidiary of America Movil, a new GSM/GPRS core network. Nokia has received a GSM core network order from Telefonica Moviles Peru.

Comcast proposes to bear 50% of the cost of acquisition of wireless airwaves, gained in the recent auction by the group of cable companies and Sprint Nextel. The group has gained 137 licenses for $2.4bn. The Peruvian government has proposed a broad contract...