Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Brazil Telecom (Brazil) would cut 12% of its staff or 800 employees, as part of the restructuring program. Motorola appoints Dr Hamid Ahmadi as its first chief architect. Vonage appointed Mike Snyder as CEO, succeeding founder Jeffrey who remains cha...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Northern Sky Research, mobile TV would attract up to 107m subscribers by 2010. Mobile TV will be a significant revenue generator over the long run, but NSR warns of excessive hype as several...

Telcordia claims he launch of the industry's first commercially available IMS-based Fixed-mobile Convergence (FMC) offering. IBM scientists have created a small, low-cost chipset that could allow wireless electronic devices to transmit and receive ten...

Global mobile shipments (in million units) 4Q05 4Q05 Market share 2005 Nokia 84 34.1% 265 Motorola 44.7 18.2% 146 Samsung 27.2 12.7% 103 LG Electronics 16.2 6.8% 55 Sony Ericsson 16.1 6.3% 51 Others 53.8 205 Total shipment 245 825 Of which: GPRS model...

Nokia will go out of the TV decoder market. It will only focus on the mobile products and services. Apertio has raised $30m in its third round of funding. Apertio is a pioneer in the hot IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) sector. Tut Systems has been named...

Celtel (a Kuwait' s MTC subsidiary) has opened a Technical Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The infrastructure will serve as a technical hub for five countries. Sony Ericsson is introducing its new M600i smartphone to compete with RIM' s Blackberry...

Kyocera has introduced iBurst wireless broadband services in Kenya for Africa Online. Alcatel has secured a significant contract from China Telecom to upgrade existing broadband access network across 26 provinces in China, in preparation for the launch...

LHS is providing a billing platform to new 3G operator GloBul in Bulgaria. Nokia has secured a new contract with Telefonica Moviles Ecuador to provide its MSC Server System. It secured an UMTS order from Telecom Italia for radio networks in five regions,...

Kasenna (US) announced the closing of an $11m round of funding led by Intel. Kasenna is a start-up in IPTV, video platforms and VOD programming. Huawei' s 2005 orders reached $8.3bn, of which 58% overseas. Huawei ranks number one in NGN and IP-DSLAM technologies...

Telstra would split into three units, including wholesale, retail and key network services, prior to its sale. Google and eBay have invested into Spanish WiFi startup FON. Eircom (Ireland) is to be acquired in a $3bn deal by an Australian investment bank...