Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

UTStarcom has demonstrated its MobileCard technology. Broadcom announced the availability of its CellAirity (W-CDMA + EDGE) multimedia mobile phone solution for 3G handsets. Nortel demonstrated interoperability between its IMS solution and OMA IMS enablers,...

Thomson signed an agreement with Russian Television & Broadcasting Network (RTRN) to digitize all Russian TV and radio networks. UTStarcom is trialling its Continuity fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution with Brazil Telecom. It will also deploy its...

Nokia will build a mobile TV trial network for EMTEK in Indonesia during 2H06. It will also deploy an HSDPA network for Wataniya Telecom in Kuwait, and won a a convergent charging solution contract from Hutchison Telecom Indonesia. Microsoft has won orders...

UTStarcom reported 4Q05 net loss of $21m on sales of $686m. Gross profit margin was only 12%.

Teliasonera may increase its stake in Russia’ s MegaFon.

DoCoMo, Renesas Technology, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, and Sharp will jointly develop a mobile phone platform supporting HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE. Vimpelcom (Russia) has offered $5bn to purchase Ukraine's Kyivstar, Hutchison sold 10% stake ($500m)...

Time Warner Cable had 1.1m VOIP subscribers and Comcast 1.3m VOIP users at the end of 2005. MegaFon’ s (Russia) total subscriber base amounted to 22.8m users as of Dec. 31, 2005. Chile ' s mobile base was 11m at end 2005, and is expected to grow to 12m...

TPSA (Poland) reported its 4Q05 net income fell 2% to $161m, on revenues of $1,47bn, up 1%. 2005 revenues were $5,7bn. In 4Q05, revenues were made 50% of fixed-line revenues (- 12%) and 33% of mobile revenues (+19%). France Telecom posted 89% surge in...

Oracle could cut 2000 jobs after taking over Siebel. Huawei workforce in Europe could double in 2006 to 3,000 people. France Telecom could cut 8,5% of its workforce, or 17,000 jobs almost all in France, over the next three years.

Digital Music Forum 28/02-01/03 2006 New York www.digitalmusicforum.com WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatar www.itu.int CeBIT 2006 9-15/03 2006 Hannover Germany http://www.cebit.de/ Spring 2006 VON 14-17/03 2006 San Jose http://pulver.com/von...