Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Cisco will provide Mobile Wireless Home Agent and aggregation routers to T-Mobile in Slovakia. It will also provide a business FMC voice solution to MTS (Russia). Nokia will expand Thailand' s AIS GSM network under a $19m contract. It has also been selected...

The EU Commission took legal action against 11 EU governments for failing to implement EU-wide emergency telephone number system for travelers. The countries are Greece, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands,...

Liberty Global (US) continue divesting from Europe, in selling now its Swedish UPC Sweden cable operator (after French Noos last month). Free (France) launches a national WiMAX service starting in few weeks.

Modeo plans to launch commercial DVB-H services in the US by next year, but will build a network in New York this year. It has contracted HTC to develop a DVB-H-capable phone. Modeo competes with MediaFlo of Qualcomm. Verizon Wireless announced an alliance...

Australia: broadband connections hit 3m. LATAM GSM: Brazil had 88.4m GSM mobile subscribers, Mexico 46.6m, Colombia 21.8m, Argentina 20.7m, Chile 11.5m, Venezuela 11.1m. In total, there were 240m GSM users at the end of 2005.

T-Mobile (Germany) warns it could not be able to achieve its targets in Europe due to increasing competition. Its CEO anticipates mobile tariffs to drop by 20% in Germany. German mobile prices were down 11.5% in March yoy.

Jacques Dunoguè has left Alcatel, following the Alcatel-Lucent merger. He is replaced as President of EMEA region by Etienne Fouques. Marc Rouanne replaces Etienne as President of the Mobile division. Vodafone named Thomas Geitner, its current CTO, as...

The agreement is done for about $13.5bn in stock. Both companies have agreed to merge and form a leading telecom vendor. The combined company, not yet named, will have revenues of about €21bn and a capitalization of about €28bn. Alcatel will hold about...

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...

A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, HP’ s ProCurve Networking solutions should held about 18% market share in EMEA, with more than 44% in Finland, more than 20% in France, Netherlands and Sweden. According to Senza Fili...