Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

European broadband networks: the debate is not over I already have reported on the challenge launched by some European incumbents to launch new services on new broadband networks and avoid providing access to competition, at least for a while. DT, FT,...

According to Jeita, the Japanese IT & Electronics Industry Association, 3G phone sales are booming. More than 5m 3G phones were sold (up 58%) in March, and account now for about 90% of all mobile phone sales. It is a big move to ensure the 3G market taking...

According to eMarketer, 250m households had broadband access at the end of 2005, and 1bn people had access to the Internet worldwide. 845M people are regularly using the Internet. Europe accounts for about 23%-24% of internet users and 22% of the world's...

All Skype NA users would be allowed to place free calls to fixed and mobile in North America. Up to now, Skype has offered free calls between PCs, but with the new offer Skype makes a decisive step towards free telephony, strongly shaking the telecom...

Infonetics Research has unveiled its latest assessment of worldwide carrier capex. European telecom carrier capex should reach €60bn this year, after increasing 10% to € 54bn in 2005. That accounts for about 15% of revenues on average in 2005 and slightly...

Nortel is back in the news. Not necessarily with good news, but we enjoy hearing from an old Lady. Latest announcement was on financial results. 1Q06 is announced to be lower than expected: revenues could be flat or slightly down, and loss should be higher...

A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, the mobile messaging market should grow to $15bn in 2010 in Western Europe. SMS remains important source of revenue for operators. According to Juniper Research, Mobile WiMAX subscribers...

Siemens India has entered into a tie-up with Huawei-3Com for VOIP, data and video networking services. Audiocodes will acquire media gateway vendor Nuera Communications Inc. for $85 m. Huawei unveiled a super-large capacity Gigabit Passive Optical Network...

Sun and Orange will collaborate to simplify the Java Micro Edition (Java ME) application development environment,

Microsoft has provided its contact center to Elisa (Finland), while Nokia will provide Elisa with a unified device management solution. Nortel will expand Indian Bakrie Telecom' s fixed wireless CDMA2000 1X network .