Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

In the UK, a series of tests, carried out by Strategy Analytics, revealed that GPRS-based TV service is today as competitive as 3G service, and can outperform some big guns such as Orange 3G TV and 3. Vodafone Live! Mobile TV was ranked first, ahead of...

According to IDC, 471m units have been shipped so far in 2006 (238m in 2Q06), with a 2% increase in 2Q (qoq) and 22.5% increase yoy. IDC, however, does not forecast that the milestone of 1 billion handsets shipped in a single year to be surpassed this...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, mobile data revenues rose 2% to $102bn in 2005. According to Canalys, smart mobile device shipments rose by 55.5 % to 18.9m units in 2Q06. In 2006, the Italian telecom market is...

HP bought Mercury Interactive for $4.5bn. Mercury Interactive is focused on APM (Application performance management) and BTO (Business Technology Optimization) solutions for enterprises. Motorola and Huawei are teaming up on infrastructure solutions....

Motorola bought Broadbus, adding video-on-demand technology to its portfolio of “Seamless Video Anywhere” solutions. SEQUANS, a fixed and mobile WiMAX chips supplier has raised $24m in equity financing.

Motorola unveils five new handsets: two are Razr-inspired (the Krzr and the Rizr) with built-in music players and 2-megapixel camera. The Rizr is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset while the Krzr will support both CDMA2000 1x EV-DO and GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks; two...

Alcatel will provide SingTel (Singapore) with a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) trial and a residential Metro Ethernet trial in Singapore. It will provide Delta Telecom, a cellular operator in Russia who operates under the Sky Link brand, with...

Siemens has won an Hutchison 3G Austria contract for a WCDMA network buildout. Siemens will partially operate the network, providing monitoring and maintenance services for the carrier. Ericsson is close signing a huge deal (worth tens of millions dollars)...

Lucent reported $79m in net profit, from $372m last year, on revenues falling to $2bn (from $2.34bn last year). STMicroelectronics announced a profit of $168m, up 546%, while its revenues grew 15% to $2.5bn. SUN reports a loss of $301m, vs. a profit of...

BellSouth ' s shareholders approved AT&T's plan to purchase the company. PCCW has ended talks with Macquarie and TPG Newbridge. Telefonica is re-organizing its corporate structure on three region-based units: European, Spanish and Latin American business...