Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Japan's telecoms ministry has announced that it plans to force all 4G handsets, due around 2010 to use a single connector for charging the handset. Can all regulators, vendors and operators adopt the same strategy; it will be the end of a nightmare within...

Technology NTT DoCoMo, working with a company called Aquafairy, says that the two have jointly developed a water-powered micro-fuel cell for use with 3G FOMA handsets.

Microsoft and Atos Origin have signed a strategic alliance to develop and market joint solutions based on Microsoft's Vista, Longhorn Server et Office 2007platforms. Microsoft and Nortel are teaming up to provide unified communications. The alliance is...

CoreOptics, optical networking subsystems maker, announced the closure of a $28m round of financing. Cisco Systems and Motorola are interested to move deeper into the video-on-demand (VOD) space through acquisistions. Optical Communication Products (OCP)...

China ' s production of mobile phones in the first five months period rose 66% to 174m units. Motorola has extended its current distribution agreements with value added services provider Cellstar for the US and Latin America. It has shipped almost 52m...

Alcatel won a deal worth around €26m from Maroc Telecom to provide a submarine cable network linking Morocco with France (Atlas Offshore system). It has successfully completed the deployment of a 5,000-km extension of the existing optical transport network...

Siemens will supply 3G infra to Tele2 Lithuania. Siemens is providing all of the Baltic countries with W-CDMA network technology for Tele2. LG-Nortel , a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel, is supplying South Korean KTF with HSDPA technology....

ZTE announced a profit warning as 1H profits would drop. Shares dropped more than 5%. Lucent has lowered its financial expectations for the 2nd quarter. Decreased revenues in China were also cited as part of Lucent’s revenue shortfall. Alcatel expects...

Brazil has selected Japan's ISDB-T digital television system. AOL France is launching its IPTV offer, including DTT tuner, 40Go hard disk, and HD. eBay is offering Skype IP telephony or messaging to its French auction users. KPN has bought NewTel Essence,...

Telmex Peru plans to invest $50m to launch fixed wireless telephony services using WiMax technology. Seven groups are bidding for Wireless Silicon Valley Plan (plan to unwire the Silicon Valley). They are: the consortium of Azulstar, Cisco, IBM, and Seakay;...