Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

How to sell broadband? At the beginning, Internet access was narrowband or dial-up, then gradually, with the help of technological advances, people have migrated to broadband. Speed was relatively low (starting at 128- 256kbit/s), then incrementally increased...

Triple play infrastructure momentum While reporting that quadruple play is gaining momentum and could be the next mid- term step for operators, some analysts are predicting rosy days for the triple play infrastructure market. A new study from Infonetics...

Why to do it simple, when you can make it complicated? At the beginning, the story seems very simple. Lucent bought Riverstone for $207m to improve its Ethernet portfolio. Well and probably a good decision at that time. Few weeks after Alcatel bought...

Just a remind of the story: for months, the EU Commission has asked European mobile operators to cut roaming fees inside the Union, because mobile phone operators are overcharging consumers. No reaction. Roaming fees account for about 10% of mobile operators'...

According to KMI, the amount of fiber-optic cable installed worldwide jumped 15% in 2005, and should grow at a CAGR of 10% through 2010. NA reported a 36% increase in installations in 2005, followed by Western Europe with 22%. In the next three years,...

A new study from Idate shows that the return on investments of a very high-speed (fiber-based) telecom network should be about 10 years in France. To deploy such a network covering about 40% of the French population could cost about €10bn and take about...

IPTV market overview Infonetics is assessing the IPTV infrastructure market to be worth $6bn in 2009, from $400m in 2005. IP set top boxes are the main revenue segment with a share of 42% of all IPTV equipment revenues, and their sales would nearly double...

A few set of market information released this week: According to iSupply, the mobile handset market is assessed to reach 932m units shipped (+14%) this year. On the same subject, CBC World Markets predicts a 970m units shipped in 2006 (+50m units than...

Microsoft has signed a deal to enter the content market. It signed with Reveille Production to create TV-style content for its Web sites. Siemens is dealing with BridgePort Networks to resell under an OEM agreement ' s NomadicONE IMS Convergence Server...

Intel and NDS are demonstrating the ability of WiMAX technology to deliver multicast TV and video services. Bitband, Latens and Minerva are integrating their respective products to create a strong platform for the IP-based video services. Current Communications...