Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Swisscom has appointed Carsten Schloter as CEO of the Group, succeeding Jens Alder who leaves the company. Magyar Telekom appoints Janos Winkler as new CEO.

Sharing your broadband connection is possible In the US, groups of neighbors can now share their DSL or cable Internet connections. Internet providers are showing interest in these news ideas using wireless technologies. With an antenna outside the house,...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Information Week and Microcast, 30% of CIOs have already deployed blade servers, 12% plan to deploy this year and 25% are making evaluation. Berg Insight forecasts 50m laptops should be...

- Strategy Analytics found that over 272m Bluetooth devices were shipped worldwide in 2005. - In-Stat forecasts that 12,2m digital cable set-top boxes were shipped in 2005 (vs 10,8m in 2004), dominated by Motorola and Scientific Atlanta. - In the US,...

Apple has registered the trademark “Mobile me”. It is its first inroads in the mobile market and this gives consistence to rumors of Apple entering the mobile phone market with a iPod-based smart phone. Cisco announced it will sell mobile phones, hi-fi...

Motorola is to buy Kreatel Communications AB, a Swedish developer of digital set-top systems and software for Internet Protocol television (IPTV). It also introduced its Canopy Lite subscriber module (SM), the newest addition to the company's MOTOwi4...

The Qualcomm/ Flarion merger has been cleared by the US DoJ. Analog Devices has announced that dual-mode 3G TD-SCDMA/GSM operation has been achieved. Datang Mobile's DTivy A2000 dual-mode mobile phone, using ADI's SoftFone-LCR chipset, proved successful...

Motorola has deployed a national WiMAX MotoWi4 Canopy network throughout Macedonia. It also has deployed a video over DSL service in Canada for Manitoba Telecom. NEC will upgrade Maya-1 submarine system to a 8x10-Gbit/sec system. RAD Data has received...

Nokia won a contract for Push to Talk over Cellular from China Mobile (Fujian Mobile). It also got a WCDMA+ HSDPA order from Smart (Philippines) Axalto has been selected by QoCoMo to supply USIM cards, allowing the use of PDC network in Japan and WCDMA...

Huawei announced its orders were $8.2bn in 2005 (+47%) and it serves 28 of the top 50 global carriers. It now plans orders target for 2006 at $12bn (and enter into the top 5 competitors ranking). Overseas orders contributed 58% to 2005 orders, and reached...