Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

According to Insights, the worldwide camera-enabled cellular phone market could reach 365m units this year, up 62%; and could grow to 600m units in 2007. Fuji Chimera Research Institute estimates that Japan could have 36m households with broadband internet...

Motorola swallows Wireless Valley Communications, a privately held company that creates software for designing and managing wireless networks including cellular, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and mesh. Nortel plans to purchase networking company Tasman Networks, a security-conscious...

Connexion by Boeing plans to provide in-flight entertainment, as an additional move to its “call in a plane”. Programs will be delivered to screens in the back of airplane seats, using its on-board WiFi network. Luminous is switching lights off, after...

Motorola and Sanyo, with respectively their Razr and SCP-8200 mobile handsets, are most likely used in the US to download content such as ringtones, music or data. Nokia placed only one phone among the top 10. Nokia, Motorola and China Mobile have jointly...

Ericsson and Cisco will deliver an IP-based network to Telesur in Latin America. Nokia is supplying Telecom Cook Islands in the Pacific with broadband DSL solutions and related services. ZTE will lay down fiber optic network of 9,000 km in Venezuela for...

Nokia has signed a deal with Turkcell (Turkey) and HP to provide a "Visual Radio" service to mobile phone users in Turkey.

France Telecom may invest in Spain's Euskatel, the leading telecom operator in the Basque region. Microsoft announced the sale to NBC Universal of the cable channel MSNBC, its JV with NBC. KDDI is dealing with TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power- Japan) to combine...

France Telecom will display video streams from Turin' s Winter Olympic Games on five IPTV channels over ADSL, with more than 50 hours program per day. Iliad/ Free (France) is not for sale. Its CFO wants to dry rumors of a potential merger with Bouygues...

China Telecom is believed to build a nationwide network (worth $5bn) based on home-made 3G mobile standard TD-SCDMA. China Telecom has already set up a large-scale TD-SCDMA-based trial network in Shanghai with two core networks and 16 base stations. Vodafone...

Alan Horn will become a vice chairman of the Rogers board and that William Linton will become Rogers' vice president finance and CFO. Tekelec appoints William Everett as acting CEO, replacing Fred Lax. Li Shenglin has been appointed new communications...