Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Google will buy 5% of Time Warner' s AOL for $1bn. The move confirms previous commercial agreements between the two companies. It is a blow to Microsoft which was working to sign a similar deal with Time Warner/ AOL. Telefonica and AMD launch low-cost...

Cablecom has launched a prepaid mobile service through an MVNO arrangement with Sunrise in Switzerland. Yahoo and Softbank (in Japan) have formed a company, called TV Bank, to broadcast television programs via the Internet. Neuf Cegetel (France) is offering...

Sprint Nextel will acquire Velocita Wireless (NJ, USA) that operates a nationwide Mobitex wireless network. Telenor (Norway) has bought fourth 3G UMTS license in Denmark through its Sonofon local subsidiary for €72m. Ukrainian CDMA operator ITC has started...

China Mobile added 3,9m new mobile subscribers in November to a total of 243m, while China Unicom added 0,9m to a total of 94,1m. China could finish 2005 with 393m mobile subscribers. STC (Saudi Arabia) has increased the number of new users by 1.4m to...

Sistema (Russia) reports 9-month financial results: net income was $434m, up 29%; telecom revenue grew 28% to $4.3bn; EBITDA rose 25% to $2,3bn, but EBITDA margin fell 2 points to 42,5%.

Mobilcom AG (Germany) wants to cut personnel costs by 10% to 15%. Motorola appoints industry veteran Tom Mader to corporate vice president and general manager of its Wireline Networks business. The WiMAX Forum appointed Jeff Orr director of marketing...

Worldwide Telecom Industry According to Insight research, the global telecommunications industry revenue will reach $1.2tr by the end of 2006, of which 49% from mobile services, and $1.6tr by 2010. This represents a CAGR of almost 6% over the 2005-2010...

Nortel in the GPON game? Nortel has responded to the major GPON request for proposals (RFP) from three major RBOCs (Verizon, Bellsouth and AT&T). What does it means as Nortel gave up the access market in 2001 (selling its access assets at the beginning...

IPTV could take years Conflicting opinion on IPTV deployment was recently expressed by Verizon. Stuart Elby, vice president of network architecture and enterprise technology, said that IPTV multicast technology is not yet ready for deployment on a mass...

BSSR: broadband service switch router This new acronym encompasses aggregation switching, edge routing, and B-RAS functions. All are positioned at the edge network and are needed to match with future growth of broadband data (IPTV, VOD,.VOIP, ..), and...