Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Alcatel bought Lucent for $13.4bn in stock. More ...... Motorola sold its automotive electronics business to Continental AG for about $1bn.

Conexant Systems has expanded its broadband access product portfolio by introducing a family of system-on-chip (SoC) controllers for PON systems. Amedia Networks has introduced its MDUstream platform, a modular gigabit Ethernet platform for delivering...

NEC has begun talks with Matsushita Electric and Toshiba for the joint development of 3G cellular phones. The move is part of a general trend between Japan’s mobile phone makers to share the costs of R&D and of defining sophisticated features. Qualcomm...

Nortel has been selected by Chunghwa Telecom to provide an all-IP NGN network. Motorola is providing its Talk & Tunes Wireless Internet Calling Kit to Skype. Juniper will provide T-Com with more routing platforms. Viasat won a $57m contract from Boeing...

Ericsson got a 3G radio (including microwave) and core network order from Vodafone Czech Republic. It also won an order from Mascom (Botswana) to upgrade its network to 1800 MHz. Siemens also got a 3-year order from Vodafone Czech Republic to build a...

NTL finalizes the purchase of Virgin Mobile for $1.6bn, and would be the first so-called quadruple-play telecommunications operator in the U.K Google has been granted three patents that could help it to launch WiFi free access but with ads on the user...

Inukshuk Wireless (Bell Canada + Rogers Comms) will offer WiMAX service to 5m households in North America. Optus (Australia) is offering new DSL network offering to additional 2.9m households and businesses in the country. T-Mobile International and iPass...

Digital mobile TV broadcast service is free in Japan and can be accessed in major urban areas. Carriers say sales are good. Seniors are the target for a new mobile service offered by GreatCall (California). Phones are delivered with large buttons, easy-to-read...

In the US, there were 191m mobile customers, 144m ILEC lines (incumbent local exchange carriers) and 34m CLEC lines (competitive local exchange carriers). Telefonica has signed up its third millionth customer to broadband internet in Spain. MTS (Russia)...

Wind (Italy) reported 2005 gross profit of €1.6bn (+5%) on revenues of €4.7bn (+3%). Rostelecom (Russia) reports 2005 operating profit of $417m (flat) on revenues of $1.4bn (+7.5%). EBITDA rose 4% to $509m.