Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

IDEF 2006, Interactive and Digital Entertainment Festival. 28-30/06 2006 Cannes, France www.afjv.com VON Japan 2006 July 19-21, 2006, Tokyo, Japan. www.von.com/japan06/ VoiceCon Fall 2006 August 21-24, 2006, Moscone Center San Francisco, California. www.voicecon.com/fall/call-for-papers.php...

Post Nokia-Siemens The Nokia- Siemens Com deal is just a third step in vendor consolidation that raises the question who will be the fourth (first was Ericsson-Marconi, second is Alcatel-Lucent). A lot of candidate could be on the list in coming weeks...

Push-to -Talk specifications available ? PTT/PoC was a hype two-years ago and all vendors were offering a solution. Operators and end-users, however, did not swallow the bait. The main reason was the lack of interoperability. With the recent final PoC...

Universal Service funding new rules in the US The USF Universal Service Fund) is aimed to assist rural and poor areas with funds to provide basic phone services. Up to now, funds were raised from wireline telephone service providers through small fees...

Phone in the sky: real market or not? While the US regulator recently auctioned radio spectrum for telephony and data on air travel (winners were AC BidCo and JetBlue), question raised on the timelessness of the current system AirFone, run by Verizon....

Huawei success in CDMA Huawei released interesting figures on its CDMA business. It has signed 19 CDMA 1x EV-DO contracts in the past six months and has delivered more than 10m lines of its CDMA softswitch in the world. This represent an increase of 50%....

European commitment 34 European ITC ministries have committed on June 12 in Riga to help all European citizens using ITC technologies and fill the digital divide. The e-inclusion project targets at least three main objectives: halving the gap in internet...

3.5G success According to Informa Telecoms & Media, 3.5G is poised to be a big success. The number of subscribers should grow to 200m in 2010, from 2.5m at the end of 2006. HSDPA should account for 65% of 3.5G subscribers, followed by HSUPA, EV-DO Revision...

Healthcare: Caution lightning Not only mobile phones are suspected to bring brain tumor or other high-frequency radiation effects, but now doctors have warned against using mobile phones during thunderstorm. Several people were struck by lightning while...

A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, more than 500m users are expected to subscribe to mobile TV in the world by 2011, up from 6.4m at the end of 2005. In-Stat forecasts 100m+ users by the end of 2010. Juniper...