Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Mexico' SCT and Cofetel are planning to conduct auctions for WiMAX and 3G frequency bands. Five new telephony licenses would be issued. The EU plan to create a super telecom regulator may fail, as Pilar de Castillo, a Member of the EU Parliament in charge...

Motorola announced more layoffs. It will cut another 2600 jobs, bringing its total cuts in 2008 to over 10,000. Since January 2007, Motorola has cut more than 10% of its workforce. Motorola is to close its handset manufacturing operations in Singapore...

Google was the main absent (apparently voluntarily) in the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction in the US. It did not buy any spectrum, in spite of its previously declared interest in mobility. A marketing attitude to lure rivals? Why not? In fact Google is...

Ovum posted its 4Q07 analysis of revenue trend market share changes in the wireline infrastructure segment. Equipment sales were up 18% in 2007, with switching and routing, cable TV and optical networking growing over 19% each, but DSLAM segment growing...

A few set of market information released this week: According to NSN, wind and solar technologies would be used extensively to power remote base stations by 2011. ABI Research forecasts that the fixed-mobile convergence market could grow to 250m users...

China had 565m mobile subscribers and 362m land-line users by the end of February. China Netcom had about 20m broadband internet users (+37%). South Africa : 1m broadband subscribers of which some 415k are ADSL and 480k are 3G/HSDPA. India : teledensity...

Motorola could be split into two publicly traded companies. The announcement is nevertheless yet too vague. The company's board is just starting to analyze the process and it could not necessarily go to the separation. It could be just a manoeuvre to...

Nortel has secured a 5-year contract with US Cellular for upgrading its CDMA network, and received $100m order from BSNL (India) for additional GSM lines. SkyLink has selected Nortel for the provision of a CDMA 1X EV-DO Rev. A solution in Russia. Ericsson...

ATT and NTT join the Trans-Pacific Express Consortium (TPE), to build an 18,000-km fiber-optic submarine system between APAC and the USA (to be completed in early 2010). ATT Mobility will launch its long-awaited mobile TV service (based on MediaFLO technology)...

Altimo filed a lawsuit against Telenor for delaying Vimpelcom' s entry into the Ukrainian market. It is just another episode in the several years dispute over the direction of the jointly owned firm. Telecom Italia would reinvest proceeds from the sale...