Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Zhone Technologies appoints Steven Levy to its Board of directors, NEC Telecommunications of China appoints Lu Gan, previously vice president of the company, as new president. Nortel names Dietmar Wendt as president of Global Services. Alcatel announced...

Difficult for mobile operators to choose which mobile TV technology to implement. In brief, there are five main current technologies competing, but no one can be said to be better than others or be THE standard in few months or years. The first one is...

Verizon Wireless is 6 years old. Happy Birthday! Geneva will host Telecom World in 2009. Telecom World is an ITU exhibition/ conference to be held every three years.

The current mobile sector is dominated by a fierce battle between OSs from the likes of Microsoft, Symbian, Linux, Opera and many others. Even if a significant evolution is under way, no vendor would be able to dominate the market. Microsoft will not...

Pushed by a recent forecast that its revenues could flatten at best, and recent or anticipated moves in the market, Vodafone seems to draw lessons and refine its strategy. Pure mobile-only operators are threatened by fixed mobile convergence (most continental...

It was a pity that any operator had to ask a video franchise on a community base: lot of efforts wasted. A new bill targets to prevent this issue and create a national system for telcos to enter the IPTV market with a 10-year, automatically renewable...

Serious studies regularly warn of tumor risk with heavy use of mobile phones over a long period. A new Swedish study, performed by the Swedish National Institute for Working Life and the University of Oerebro, contradicts the conclusion of two recent...

While not the most advanced country in mobile TV offer, the USA are interesting to watch as several offers are emerging. Qualcomm released few weeks ago its plan for a national roll out of mobile TV service through its MediaFlo offering. Modeo (a Crown...

Interestingly, a majority (3/4) of mobile US citizens say they have used their cellphone in an emergency, and gained valuable help. Also interesting is that more than 40% of mobile owners said they make calls to fill free time and 44% said they make their...

The mobile industry was more or less aware that mobility increases productivity, but could it provide any figure? The answer is yes, now! A new report commissioned by O2 (UK) revealed that the mobile phone sector was responsible for an increase of about...