Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Wireless local loop in China It is not a new market. Its is know as PHS (technology-related) or Little Smart (marketing label), and is a cheap wireless fixed service. With currently about 85m subscribers (+31%), and accounting for about 60% of new foxed...

Euro IT retail market According to IT Europa, the Europe IT retail market has grown over $100bn. Top 50 retailers account for about 80%-85%of the total revenue. Growth has been driven by continued commoditisation of IT products, price cuts, boom in Internet...

Chinese mobile market It is well expected that China would grant 3G licenses in the next months. China is the first mobile market with the number of subscribers (current some 400m), with the number of new subscriber added each year (59m in 2005), with...

Worldwide PBX market Infonetics reported that the worldwide PBX market (both TDM and IP systems) grew 12% in 2005 to $8.1bn, and is expected to grow to $11.6bn by 2009. While the TDM market declined 15%, the IP PBX market grew 23% in 2005. TDM systems...

Digital Loop Carrier Market Digital loop carriers (DLC) are used to implement broadband and narrow-band at the edge of the network. They can manage large volumes of different types of voice, Internet, data, video, conferencing, and audio services from...

BPL not ready, but ..... Starting some years ago, there was a strong hype that BPL (broadband power line) could become another way to deliver cheap broadband services to households and premises, and compete with DSL. More recently, yet, a lot of trials...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Kinetics, worldwide shipments of cable modems climbed 26% to 22.4m units in 2005, of which almost 15.8m for DOCSIS modems (down 2%) , and 6.6m units for multimedia modems (up 282%). Nokia...

Motorola announced the merger of its Networks and Government & Enterprise Mobility Solutions businesses . The new division will be named Networks & Enterprise. Bookham has agreed to acquire Avalon Photonics, mainly strengthening its product portfolio...

Cisco unveiled Release 7.0 of its ONS 15454 optical transport platform, including 40-Gbit/s transmission and enhanced aggregation capabilities. Siemens claims first rank in optical long-haul dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) transport solutions....

RIM announced lit has settled its patent dispute with NTP, agreeing to pay $612.5m for use of the NTP technology in its popular BlackBerry e-mail device. Samsung has launched the first TD-SCDMA handset in the Chinese market. Nokia is again teaming with...