Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

“ Fear of being caught” or first steps towards wisdom? Several European mobile phone operators have agreed to halve the price of roaming fees in two steps; one in 10/06 and a second one year later in 10/07. The move is coming from capping the average...

Siemens is partnering with Hatteras Networks, an ethernet service specialist, to distribute their products. Avaya currently has about 20% market share of US enterprise telephony market.

China Telecom has opened an office in Kazakhstan. France: Bouygues and SFR (both are mobile operators) are planning to offer converged services, following the announcements of Orange, Free and Neuf Cegetel on this subject. Bouygues should offer broadband...

Mobistar (Belgium) is the latest European mobile operator to cut roaming rates (up to 28%).

Cisco has named John Chambers, current President and CEO, as its next chairman, to replace John Morgridge, who will become chairman emeritus.

Strong opposition to AT&T-BellSouth merger Thousands of comments were filed with the FCC on the merger. Carriers, service providers, Consumer Union, Free Press and US Public Interest Research Group said to the FCC they oppose the merger, but reasons are...

At Globalcomm 2006, 40 Gbit/s backbone networks were surfacing again in key carriers‘ keynotes. Starting from simple considerations: on traffic growth in ATT network (5.6 petabytes per day), converged services demand, and launch of the Lightspeed Project...

African new link About 20 African Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ministers signed a Declaration of Intent approving NEPAD's Broadband ICT network, including the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy). EASSy will provide a digital...

A few set of market information released this week: · According to In-Stat, the global market for media gateways and Class 4 and 5 softswitches will jump from $2.7bn in 2005 to $8.4bn in 2010. Huawei and Nortel lead the market. · ABI Research is assessing...

Alcatel and Lucent have received regulatory approval from federal antitrust authorities for their merger, but still need various approvals in the United States and Europe, plus the green light from the shareholders of the two companies (planned in Sept.)....