Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia and ATI (the 3D graphic card specialist) signed a strategic alliance to develop and promote 3D gaming, video and mobile TV on mobile devices.

Alcatel will extend Algerie Telecom broadband access network with ADSL lines. Lucent received an order for VOIP technology from US Digital Telecommunications Inc. (DTI),

Comverse will supply its Total Communication portfolio to Poland' s P4 mobile operator. Nokia is providing BAE (US) a GSM/EDGE network. Microsoft and Qualcomm have forged a partnership to shorten product development times, boost the smartphone market...

Dassault Systems posts an increase of 29% in its 1Q06 revenues to €256m and of 33% in its operating income to €61m. JDSU reports 1Q06 revenues of $315m and a net income of $3.7m. Optical revenues amounted to $128m (+16%); test & measurement revenues were...

DT (Germany) plans to buy European operators in order to challenge its pan-European rivals and remain the n°1 in Europe. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a plan to trial broadband over power lines (BPL) in California.

ITU has formed an IPTV Focus Group to coordinate and market IPTV standards development worldwide. Many documents are available on the subject at: www.itu.int/ITU-T/IPTV AOL has make a deal with Clearwire (a McCaw company) to provide WiMAX based wireless...

Universal Studios is the latest mainstream media giant to create a dedicated mobile division to focus on games, ringtones, video clips etc. KTF (Sth Korea) plans to launch 3G services in 1H07, after an investment of $780m to build its 3G HSDPA network....

Telkom (Sth Africa) currently has 4.7m fixed lines. OTE (Greece) had 154k ADSL subscribers at the end of 2005, and expects to have 500k ADSL users by the end of the year. America Movil reports 100m+ mobile subscribers (+44%) in Americas (of which 93m...

BCE (Canada) reports better-than-expected 1Q06 results. Revenues rose 2% to $4.1bn and EPS rose 2% to 45 cents. SingTel (Singapore) announced better-than-expected earnings at $1bn for the quarter (underlying earnings were at $610m, up 14%) and $2.6bn...

Orange UK will cut about 15% of its UK workforce (or some 2000 jobs). Harmonic appoints Patrick Harshman as President and new CEO, in replacement of Anthony Ley who retires, but will continue as non-executive Chairman of the Board.