Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Health care: a wireless market also Vertical health care market could be the next big market according to Frost & Sullivan. With the current trend of transferring patients from the hospitals to home care settings, in order to make substantial costs cuts...

China 3G licenses update A hot topic as the expected dead line for releasing 3G licenses in China approaches. The hope was a little bit cooled, however, when China decided to carry out new TD-SCDMA trials in three more cities from March to July. China...

Mobile infra market Infonetics Research reported WCDMA RAN equipment study. The worldwide radio access network equipment market topped $41bn in 2005, of which 58% for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 19% for WCDMA and 23% for CDMA. In 2009, W-CDMA RAN equipment revenue...

Is 40Gbit/s Sonet/SDH back? It was a huge hype in the end of the 90s, but the telecom bubble closed such efforts down. With fiber glut and capex cuts, no way to deploy such new systems. For a while, this segment market seemed forgotten by vendors, operators...

Fiber market According to Corning, the 2005 worldwide fiber market grew about 15% to 68m kilometers, with NA market growing 30%, with Japan market growing 15%, with China market growing 10% as well as WE. China accounted for 20% of the world market, WE...

A few set of market information released this week: Infonetics predicts that worldwide DSL aggregation hardware revenues would grow 65% on the 2005 -09 period to $10.5 bn and that port shipments would hit 204m, from respectively $5.2bn and 82.3m ports....

Cisco has bought SyPixx, an IP video technology start-up, for $51m. Nortel will restate results for 2003, 2004 and first nine months of 2005. Its accounting woes are not finished, could be due to recognized sales in wrong periods and followed a class-action...

Tropos is partnering with Alvarion for municipal markets. Up to now, Tropos was partnering with Motorola. Nortel plans to focus on the high-growth domains of carriers and enterprises by introducing converged, enterprise security and mobility products....

RIM' share was surging after the company agreed to pay $612m in settlement of patent dispute with NTP. RIM is now able to continue its BlackBerry-related wireless business. Samsung introduced the first mobile phone with a built-in 8Go hard disk, and unveiled...

Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu have received contracts from BT for its 21st Century Network (21CN). Alcatel and Cisco will supply routing and signaling capabilities for voice, data and video services. Ericsson will supply the i-nodes, softswitches...