Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Optical networking market After Ovum and Dell'Oro, it is the turn to Infonetics to value the worldwide optical networking market.2005 optical market grew 19% to $10,7bn, while the metro market (70% of the total) increased 15% and the long-haul market...

SFR announced the results of its mobile TV trial SFR, Nokia and Canal+ unveiled the results of their first mobile TV trial in France. 500 SFR subscribers were using a Nokia 7710 handset equipped with a DVB-H module, so the trial was made with the DVB-H...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Insight, the US managed services market will grow at a CAGR of 22% to $94bn in 2011. According to Dittberner, the overall market for public network switches and routers increased by 20%...

Ericsson has filed a lawsuit against Samsung alleging patent infringement on GSM, GPRS and EDGE technologies. The case followed the expiration of its contract with Samsung on December 31, 2005. Motorola invested in Netomat, a content-sharing IP-based...

Siemens is seeking partners for different parts of its fixed-line networks business, according to union sources. Thomson and WiNetworks will jointly develop triple play (video, voice and high-speed internet) and mobile services over WiMAX networks. Cisco...

Qualcomm is developing chipsets based on Digital Video Broadcasting–Handheld, or DVB-H, a rival standard of its own MediaFlo network, for which it is also supplying MediaFlo chips to handset vendors. It is quite in line with its traditional strategy to...

Movaz has delivered a secure regional optical network for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA. Cisco provides IP solutions to Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan). Sonus will provide Japan Telecom with its VoIP infrastructure solutions. It will also...

Siemens has signed a frame agreement with Etisalat (UAE) to support it in its continuing international expansion strategy. Ericsson will roll out a HSDPA radio mobile network for KPN (NL), while Huawei will supply KPN with the HSDPA core network. Sharp...

Lucent COO expects higher revenue in the second half of the fiscal year than in the first half.

Vodafone expects to file a $48bn charge to its assets related to the value of goodwill in Vodafone Germany (when it bought Mannesman in 2000), Vodafone Italy and Vodafone Japan. KT (S. Korea) has announced $3.1bn CAPEX guidance for 2006, 33% of it would...