Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Microsoft and Philips unveiled at CES a new joint VOIP phone. Conexant will invest more than $250m in India over the next five years. Cisco Systems has shipped 100,000 IP phones to the Indian market in 2005.

Sony Ericsson has announced a new Quad-band EDGE Walkman-branded mobile music phone. Motorola will integrate Google icon in its handsets to access Google directly anytime, anywhere at the click of a button. Warner Music and Universal Music will be the...

Sonus has gained a voice over broadband contract, from Vonage, including its media gateway and softswitch, its policy and call routing server, signaling gateway, and the Insight management software. ECI Telecom will equip Beijing Subway network with an...

Ericsson has received an order from Natrindo Telepon Selular (Indonesia) to build, operate and manage its new 3G/WCDMA network. ZTE is to expand China Telecom' s 3G trials in key Chinese cities.

Google will offer video downloads from major content partners through its Google site. Microsoft demonstrated at CES (Las Vegas) key new products: its future Windows Vista OS,its Xbox 360 game console and its Windows Mobile operating software for cell...

AT&T launches its net-based TV, on a small scale to start (some hundreds customers) as well as on content. The service, today similar to Cable offerings, will be progressively improved (from 200 to 1000 channels; VOD; HD channels; DVR programmed from...

Crown Castle Mobile Media will change its name to Modeo and offer live mobile TV, video and audio services to a wide range of mobile devices, including cars, to the US' s top 30 markets. The National Association of Theatre Owners could ask the FCC permission...

VNPT (Vietnam) reported a total of 13m telephone users (of which 6.3 fixed and 6.7 mobile). Latin America has 72.8m internet users, a penetration of 13.3%. India' s GSM operators added 3.2m users in Dec.05.

VNPT (Vietnam) reported 2005 revenues of $2.1bn (+9%), added 3.3m new telephone users. to a total of 13m (of which 6.3 fixed and 6.7 mobile)

NetCentrex has appointed David Michaud as its CEO. Park Byung-mu will replace Kwon Soon-yup as Hanarotelecom CEO.