Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

According to IDC, the 2Q06 worldwide PC sales grew almost 10%, and only 7% in Europe. For the first time in several years, Europe growth rate is below world growth rate. According to Gartner, PC sales in France grew only by 2.5% (1.7m units) and were...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Juniper Research, mobile WiMAX will gradually replace fixed WiMAX. Mobile WiMAX could have 1.7m subscribers in 2007 and 21.3m in 2012. Firefox has reached 200m web downloadings and is given...

Ericsson has sued Samsung Electronics for allegedly infringing on 11 of Ericsson’s patents. IBM bought Webify Solutions, a service oriented architecture expert.

Alvarion claims a 81% market share of the worldwide WiMAX market, according to Sky Light Research.

China has produced about 213m mobile phones (+64%) in 1H06. Samsung launches HSDPA handset (model: SGH-Z560).

Lucent will provide Vodafone Italy with an intelligent network platform for its HomeZone project. Alcatel wins €30m microwave backbone contract in Iraq from Iraqi Telecom & Post. It also received frame contract from Verizon to deploy GPON equipment. Motorola...

Ericsson will supply its Mobile Softswitch Solution to upgrade Movistar Chile mobile network.It successfully completed the HSDPA network upgrade of Hong Kong carrier SmarTone. It will supply Xfera (Spain) for the deployment of its 3G network. Motorola...

Alvarion posts 2Q06 revenues of $50m (+7%) with WiMAX products accounting for 1/3. Extreme reports a loss of $2m as revenue dropped 14% to $82m. Nortel reported that 2Q06 revenues were up 5% to $2.7bn and net income of $366m (including a $510m gain from...

BT announced it bought Telexis Polska, Fiat's Polish telecom business for €1.2m. Indian SMBs could invest over $8.7bn on telecom equipment and services in 2006. India has set a target of having 250m telephone users by the end of 2007. Time Warner and...

Neuf Cegetel (France) is given as winner to take over AOL France for about €250m. AOL France currently has 500k broadband subscribers in France, and will bring Neuf' subscriber base to 1.7-1.8m. It will not, however, take over Tele2 France, bidding only...