Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Sony Ericsson has announced four new handsets. Samsung has signed an exclusive agreement with Fuel Cell developer, MTI Micro. The technology will be used to power a series of prototypes designed for Samsung's mobile phone and mobile phone accessories...

Orca Interactive announced an order in Europe with a large European telecom service provider to supply, through a NGN equipment vendor, an IPTV solution. Nortel has been selected by Silk Telecom to build its a new advanced optical network in Australia....

Alcatel has signed a $53m GSM expansion contract with Angola's Unitel. Huawei will supply a 3G network to Econet Wireless New Zealand in Auckland. LHS is providing COSMOTE Romania with its billing and customer care BSCS 8 system.

Telekom Malaysia will invest some $150m in two years in Sri Lanka through its local affiliate Dialog Telekom. Funds will be used to expand its fixed, mobile and broadband networks. Orascom targets to take a controlling stake in Hutchison Telecom, and...

DT and German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere have agreed on a strategic partnership to provide IPTV services. Econet (pan-African operator) has acquired a controlling stake in Burundi operator ST Cellular. Xfera (Spain) is talking with Teliasonera in a last...

Telcel (Mexico) has launched mobile TV services. DoCoMo plans to make all its models compatible with GSM standards, so they can be used in more than 130 countries. Under the new system, DoCoMo mobile phone users would also be able to use its i-mode Internet...

China Unicom added 1.2m new mobile subscribers in April, bringing its total subscriber base to 133m, of which 98.8m are GSM . China Telecom added 1.3m new fixed subscribers in April, and brings its total number of local-access subscribers to 216.5m. China...

Paul Hazen and Penny Hughes expected to leave Vodafone shortly. Tom Perkins , a director of Hewlett-Packard, steps down from the board. Mike Pratt appointed CEO of Aperto Networks

Happy World Telecommunications Day! May 17 officially is World Telecommunications Day, to commemorate the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on May 17, 1865. This year, the ITU Council decided to highlight the theme "Promoting...

Pyramid Research has published its 1Q2005 Mobile Demand and Mobile Data Forecasts for more than 90 countries in the world. Based on new (unexpected) strong growth, they have revised their overall projections for mobile subscriber growth for the 2006-2010...