Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Health Care Solutions More and more telecom vendors are interested in the Health Care market, as communications solutions can change the future of patient care.The recent HIMSS conference in San Diego was the occasion to review some offerings. Alcatel...

Lucent retirees rebel The Lucent Retirees Organization recently led a rebellion against Lucent' s Board of Directors, and was joined by other shareholders to approve measures designed to tighten up the performance requirements for executive pay, and reduce...

Optical networking market Ovum-RHK has released its latest edition of forecasts on the optical networking market. 4Q05 revenues for the segment grew 7% to $3bn, and 2005 total reached $11bn, up 17%, of which the multiservice SONET/SDH ADM totaled almost...

A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, many mobile operators worldwide will commit increased capital expenditure to network expansion in 2006. Verizon Wireless is expected to invest $15.7bn on CAPEX, of which a...

China will build 3 TD-SCDMA trial networks China' s MII has named China Telecom, China Mobile and China Netcom to launch tests of TD-SCDMA network for commercial operation. MII was a little bit upset that most of Chinese operators have built WCDMA trail...

DSL aggregation survey Infonetics reported its latest study on the DSL aggregation equipment market. In 2005, the segment grew 38% in number of ports to 82.3m, and 23% in revenues to $6.4bn. Alcatel maintains its top position in worldwide DSL aggregation...

Mobile video interoperability GSMA has begun interoperability trials to ensure that mobile users will be able to share video across networks. The goal is to ensure that this service will work across as many mobile devices as possible and across both fixed...

Winners of annual GSM Association Awards Alcatel won awards for the best mobile entertainment; Nokia won awards for the best handset; Motorola got award for its RAZR V3x 3GSM handset; I-Play and Hi3G won the best mobile game and best mobile music award...

Siemens plans to set up a manufacturing base in India for telecom networking equipment. It also could break up its COM division. The subdivided parts would then be either brought into joint venture partnerships or sold, specially the Enterprise loss making...

Alcatel unveiled its Evolium mobile WiMAX base station to be ready for commercial deployment by mid-2006. Tellabs introduced a new MSPP platform, the world's smallest fully featured MSPP. Motorola and Cleartone announced a long-term development and supply...