Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

NTT strategy NTT is well-known for being at the forefront of technology race. Few months ago, NTT launched a huge initiative to deploy optical access systems. By the end of this year NTT' s FTTx subscribers will pass the 2.5m mark, with target of 30m...

Submarine systems Every one knows that the submarine system market is cyclical, and for the past 50 years has experienced many turmoil periods. One of the longest and hardiest period was the 2000-2003 telecom bubble bust. Over capacity (in systems and...

40 seconds to read the message James Bond has attracted initiates (remember “Mission Impossible” movie). A UK company (of course), called Staellium, has launched self-destruct message service. After 40 sec., StealthText causes messages to be deleted from...

China ICT export boo m China ICT export has reached $180bn (+46%) in 2004, overtaking for the first time the US, which did $149bn and EU (15 countries) $139bn. Telecom exports in 2004 are valued at $25.6bn (+76%) and account for about 14% of the tota...

40Gbit/s From time to time, announcements repeat that the 40Gbit/s optical market is still alive. Trials follow trials, and every time performance is improved: in May 2004, transmission was realized on few hundreds kilometers, the transmission over more...

Perception of mobile services improving According to a survey made by Research Institutes/ Buongiorno Vitaminic, about 50% of mobile users are now satisfied by the level of current mobile services. They found that services are more entertaining, varied,...

The IP Centrex/Hosted PBX market is poised for explosive growth over the next 4 years, with revenues reaching approximately $1.3bn by 2009, according to In-Stat. The SME market is driving demand. According to Analysys, the Chinese VOIP market is seen...

Broadcom could acquire Sandburst (Ethernet chip maker) for about $120m. Microsoft is to buy the software and IP assets of UMT for an undisclosed amount.

Alcatel has demonstrated IPTV BSS/OSS platform with end-to-end IPTV real time business service assurance. The solution is the first output from the strategic collaboration with Micromuse. Alcatel has been honored for 'Best New Product' award for its 1850...

Nokia is testing with Cingular near field communications (NFC) to test the viability of contactless payments, mobile content and premium arena applications. NEC will cut the its mobile phone portfolio it markets in China and reduce the number of its outlets...