Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Paris plans FTTH municipal network The office of the Mayor of Paris has announced a bidding process plan to hook up "all of Paris" with high-bandwidth optical fiber connections. The network (worth about €1bn) would be commissioned and owned by the city...

China telecom market overview Some statistics, over the first eleven months of 2005, on the Chinese telecom market are interesting to highlight: the communications industry registered $136,4bn in business volume (+24%); telecom operation revenues reached...

Is 3G/WCDMA a success? Operators and vendors are doubling efforts to make 3G a success. A recent GSA survey reveals that about 272 WCDMA user devices (handsets, PC datacards, etc.) are currently on the market, a significant increase of 150% over last...

MTN expansion strategy in MEA The South African GSM operator has developed its portfolio of acquisitions in emerging markets, such as Iran (Irancell got the second GSM license in Iran), Zambia (Telecel) and Botswana (Mascom Wireless). It also bought Libertis...

- According to ChangeWave Research , Motorola is the top choice in the US among those who plan to buy a cellphone in the next six months; - According to In-Stat, the worldwide combined market of both digital satellite and terrestrial radio will grow from...

IBM was top US patent recipient in 2005, with almost 3,000 new patents. Motorola bought the next-generation cable network technology assets of privately-held Broadband Innovations, and will include them in Motorola Connected Home Solutions business. VeriSign...

Skype and Netgear are teaming to develop and market a new range of innovative products, such as a cellular/ WiFi handset (WiFi Skype) and a Skype-optimized router (RangeMax). Broadcom has announced a Wi-Fi video phone chipset for handsets and phones....

Hewlett Packard (and Verizon) has launched its Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) Mobile Broadband Notebook PC, the HP nc6140. Fujitsu-Siemens ( and T-Mobile) is launching notebooks with integrated HSDPA, UMTS and W-LAN mobile communications technologies....

Airspan has been selected by the Consortium Union Temporal COLDECON/ COMPARTEL in Colombia to deploy a large-scale broadband rural access project to schools and public institutions. Gilat is providing a 2,400 site VSAT network for O Boticario, a cosmetics...

Samsung will provide a total of 500,000 terrestrial DMB phones to two major Chinese Mobile TV operators: Beijing Jolon Digital Media Broadcasting and Guangdong Mobile Television Media. Genesys (Alcatel) and Atos Origin will provide VoIP services to French...