Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

There are now more than 2.2bn mobile subscribers in the world, and it is expected that this number would grow to 3bn by 2010. GSM currently accounts for about 1.8bn and CDMA for about 0.4bn users. There are currently 860 networks in 220 countries delivering...

A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, IT spending should grow by a little bit more than 6% in 2006 to $1063bn. Software sales should grow by 7% , while hardware sales should grow at a lower pace. APAC should grow at 9%,...

Siemens is selling its 12% stake in Epcos, a passive electronic component maker, for €90m. It has also sold its remaining 18% stake in Infineon for €1.1bn. Siemens is also close to spin off outsourcing business (in the SBS unit); CSC could be a potential...

Ericsson could be interested by Juniper. Ericsson is already a Juniper router reseller. Meanwhile Juniper could be interested in H3C, the JV between Huawei and 3Com, for $1.7bn, to boost its sales in the enterprise LAN market. Simultaneously, Juniper...

RIM will unveil soon its BlackBerry 3G handset, called 8707. Motorola has delayed its Moto Q flagship smart phone until April. Motorola is developing the first dual-mode iDEN/CDMA handset, to be released this fall. Nortel and Sierra Wireless have performed...

ZTE got a huge IPTV contract from China Netcom. Ericsson is providing Ethernet broadband access technology to Austrian Liwest Kabelmedien Cramer will provide OSS suite for service activation to TDC (Denmark). Hon Hai (Taiwan) has secured an order from...

Nortel wins managed contact center deal from Bharti Tele-Ventures. It has deployed HSDPA technology for Partners (Israel) Spirent has won a China Mobile order for testing its 3G core network performance. Huawei will expand Telemar/ Oi (Brazil) GSM network,...

Telstra (Australia) is putting pressure on the Australian government, saying it did not find strong interest in buying Telstra shares until regulatory certainty is made and how much Telstra could charge rivals to access its copper wire network. Telstra...

Lycos is introducing a Windows-based program that provides free U.S. phone numbers for incoming calls, and free calls to phones if the user signs up for promotional offers, or pay 1 cent a minute for US calls when they exhaust their initial 100 free minutes....

Sprint Nextel introduced a new mobile search service powered by InfoSpace, incorporating GPS capabilities and allowing reception of maps and directions to restaurants, movie theaters, etc. South Korean mobile operators are introducing handset subsidies...