Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Alcatel announces a new release of its OmniPCX Office platform with voice over WLAN and SIP network interface. Alcatel will form a Cable group, focused on selling its optical and Ethernet gear into the North American cable market. Nortel launches its...

Nokia announces offering the N91 handset to the market. The device includes GSM/EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, and W-CDMA for international roaming, and comes with a 4 GB hard drive. Samsung announces the availability of its SCH-a930 for...

Microsoft has been selected by Shanghai Telecom for its Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5 solution. Infinera DTN optical system will be deployed in Global Crossing network across the . Siemens has been selected by ATT to deploy OC 768 (40Gbit/s)...

Ericsson has been tapped by Rural Cellular (US) to integrate, host and manage a mobile e-mail service. It has also been selected by Centennial Wireless (US) to operate a mobile content service. ZTE will build the first commercial CDMA EV-DO Rev. A network...

Nortel finally reports 1Q06 results; net loss amounted to $167m, larger than expected, on revenues of $2.4bn, slightly down. Mobile and converged core networks revenues were down 4%, while revenues from Enterprise solutions and packet networks decreased...

Yahoo is to buy 10% stake in South Korean e-commerce company Gmarket. DT has completed the merger with its Internet service provider unit T-Online International. FT is preparing the sale of its 54% stake in the PagesJaunes group (Directories) as this...

Level3 is to acquire Looking Glass Networks, a metro service provider, for $96m. Sibirtelecom () plans to launch pilot WiMAX projects in cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk . Triple T Broadband ( ) has received a license to operate nationwide broadband...

SmarTone (HK) is launching an HSDPA commercial service. Belgacom / Proximus is upgrading its 3G network to HSDPA by the end of the year. T-Mobile reaches further hotspot access through a deal with Sofitel (Accor Hotels), adding some 210 new hotspots....

: mobile customer base reached 8.9m at the end of March, up 4% yoy. : KDDi added 261k new users in May, bringing its total to 23.3m mobile users. DoCoMo gained 134k new users in May, reaching 51.5m mobile users base, of which 25.3m are 3G. Reliance Telecom...

Wind ( ) announced 1Q06 net profit of €14m, vs. loss of €0.5m, on revenues of €1.1bn, up 2%. EBITDA rose 17% to €384m. PT Telkom ( ) reports 21% increase in 2005 net profit to $889m, and an operating income up 23% to $4.6bn.