Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

BT share price went up on speculation of a tentative bid from DT on BT. It is suggested that DT should be primarily interested by BT' s international operations and could find a partner to buy what it is not interested in or not allowed by regulation...

Vonage went to market last week with its much waited IPO, but its share price instantly plunged from $17 at the launch to $14.8 at the end of the day and down to $12.6 on Friday. As a result, Vonage saw its capitalization dropping to $2bn, down almost...

The WiMAX Forum has selected Spain' s Cetecom to develop a Radio Conformance Test Tester (RCTT) for testing Mobile WiMAX. The test system includes a radio conformance test system (MINT T2110) for fixed and mobile WiMAX, a protocol conformance tester (MINT...

The Sonae' s bid on Portugal Telecom is going on, with Sonae buying last week about 1% of PT for $135m, a move that forces PT to open its books to Sonae under Portuguese law. After Vodafone complained to the Portugal's Competition Authority (PCA) about...

The two giants have announced a multi-year strategic alliance for developing on the NA market. It was in the air for several days, but now it is official. The alliance covers four major domains: internet search and advertising, online payments (using...

A few set of market information released this week: Berg Insight forecasts that the shipments of handset-based personal navigation solutions in the US and Europe will reach 12m units by 2009, up from 1m in 2005. Jentro, Route66 and TomTom were the top...

Nortel is said targeting to take a controlling stake ($30m) in hosted VOIP systems specialist Sylantro Systems. Sylantro is already partnering with Alcatel, Siemens, Cisco, Juniper, and provides systems to ATT, China Unicom, Qwest, and Swisscom.

Fujitsu and Cisco announced the release of the co-branded "Fujitsu and Cisco XR12400" series of high-performance routers, designed for the Japanese market. Zhone Technologies announced its EtherActive fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) products. ECI Telecom...

Nokia is offering the code source of its mobile Web navigator as an open source. Qualcomm registered a patent violation case against Nokia, accusing it of violating two of its high-speed wireless technologies patents in the UK. Toshiba has introduced...

NEC will supply 221k new DSL lines to Turk Telecom. It will also install a $23m optical submarine cable system between Maldives and Sri Lanka.