Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

HP has set up a new facility in Shanghai to help Asian telcos deploying next-generation, IMS-based services. Nokia plans to repurchase €6.5bn Nokia shares. Movaz announced it has closed $20m in venture funding, along with a line of credit for $12m. IBM...

Jabber introduced version 5.0 of its Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) and an updated version of its desktop enterprise instant messaging (EIM) client, Jabber Messenger 3.2. Orca unveiled the release of Orca RiGHTv 4.5 with an evolution...

Motorola announced MOTOMESH, its multi-radio, mesh networking system for municipal wireless communications solution. It also unveiled a new HSDPA access point solution, AXPT, to enable indoor mobile broadband access. ZTE share gained more than 8% on hopes...

Amdocs signed significant billing contract with Svyazinvest (Russia). Hitachi/ Salira is providing its Salira 3000 series optical line terminals (OLTs) to build the first EPON network in Bangladesh for Sirius Broadband. Alcatel won TDC IPTV contract,...

Nokia has reached a 5-year, $350m agreement to run Hutchison Essar' s network in 9 circles in India. Huawei will deploy HSDPA network for Optimus (Portugal), and won a WCDMA contract from Indonesia' s mobile operator Natrindo Telepon Selular (NTS). Hitachi/...

Convergys reports earnings of $23.4m, up 16%, but revenues fell 1% to $ 669.6m. Adtran posts 4Q05 earnings of 41 cents a share, above consensus of 39 cents, and revenues of $141m, up 34%, but below expectations of $144m. Lucent reports $1.5bn in 4Q05...

Tellabs beats analysts estimates with 4Q05 revenues jumping 37% to $521m and earnings of $100m. For the year, Tellabs reported revenues of $1.9bn (up 53%) and earnings of $176m (+38%). Tellabs also boosted guidance above estimates for the first quarter...

Svyazinvest (Russia) wants to sell 23.3% stake in MGTS (Russia). Maxis (Malaysia) would be interested in Spice Telecom (India). DoCoMo could be interested investing in Philippine Long Distance Telephone (Philippines). China Mobile is nearing closing the...

Telemar (Brazil) would invest $440m in 2006 in audiovisual content distribution on its broadband internet network. Brazil Telecom (Brazil) launched its voice over IP telephone service VoipFone. Five Dutch cable companies (CaiW, Casema, Essent, Multikabel...

China Unicom plans to invest about $1.85bn in mobile networks this year, of which $1.5bn in its GSM networks. China people sent more than 300m SMS in 2005. Orange France plans using GSM and GPS to track patients suffering from cognitive disorders like...