Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia and Sony Ericsson will collaborate for interoperability of digital terrestrial mobile DVB-H standard. Motorola and Nokia are introducing new mobile handsets that can switch calls between Bluetooth, cellular, and WiFi networks Cisco announced the...

Samsung signed an agreement with Telecom Italia to launch a WiBro (WiMAX) service in Italy. Thomson/Cirpak has been selected to provide its softswitch to Americatel (Chile). Comverse is providing its Kenan customer care and billing solution to Colombia...

Nokia and Ericsson are named preferred suppliers for IMS technology by Vodafone. Cisco won an IP Transfer Point solution contract from Syniverse Technologies. It will deploy its RAN optimization solution in Telefonica Moviles' networks. Alcatel has been...

France Telecom has increased its stake in Moldova’ s leading mobile operator Voxtel to 61% Retailers are entering the MVNO market in Europe with Carrefour and Corte Ingles, both looking to open operations in Spain. Neuf Cegetel (France) is planning IPO...

Bakrie Telecom (India) plans to offer CDMA EVDO to its customers. Telstra is replacing its existing CDMA network with a country level 3G/GSM service. America Movil Peru could invest $100m in 2006. Vodafone will provide a Google search capability to users...

Nokia could cut 250 jobs in its CDMA unit, following the deal with Sanyo. Nokia has appointed Niklas Savander to the post of executive vice president for technology platforms, while its current CTO, Pertti Korhonen , is leaving Nokia, and Tero Ojanperä...

Qwest reported 4Q05 loss of $528m (vs loss of $139m) on revenues of $3.5bn (almost flat). For the year, Qwest posted revenues of $13.9bn (flat) with narrowing loss to $779m (vs loss of $1.8bn). Vimpelcom (Russia) posted revenues of $3.2bn in 2005, up...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Nokia, global sales of 3G WCDMA mobile handsets could reach 100m units in 2006, of which 40% would be Nokia handsets. Ericsson sees 2006 as the year of HSDPA According to In-Stat, digital...

Microsoft made a strategic partnership with Motorola that will put its Media Center software on phones hitting the market later this year. It also said in a separate announcement that it has acquired mobile search company MotionBridge. IBM bought Viacore....

ZTE claims it has sold more than 150m lines of mobile infrastructure products by the end of 2005, of which, more than 30m lines were CDMA. Nortel has offloaded its server unit to a startup called Blade Network Technologies.