Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

According to LG, the worldwide phone market is expected to grow by 8-10% in 2006. Nokia foresees that the Latin American mobile customer base will grow by 63% to 325m in the end of 2009. According to Telephia (UK), 3G raises adoption of applications and...

Italtel plans an initial public offering of shares by the end of the first half of 2006. Thomson (France) proposes to buy Thales Broadcast & Multimedia (a unit of Thales group) for €130m. The deal will give Thomson what it lacks: IPTV middleware; video-on-demand...

ECI Telecom is opening of a new Research and Development center in India. Juniper , with MCI, has successfully demonstrated 40G transmission using its T-series core routing platform and new OC-768c/STM-256 interface module. Cisco is introducing NAPA (Network...

Samsung invested in WiMAX chipmaker Beceem Communications during C round financing. IPWireless teamed with Netgear to develop a UMTS TD-CDMA mobile broadband router, featuring WLAN 802.11g, mobile broadband access with UMTS TD-CDMA, firewall security...

Alcatel has been awarded by Anhui Telecom (China Telecom) the expansion of its metropolitan network across the Anhui Province to deliver triple play services. It may win Australia' s Telstra $2,6bn new fiber-optic network. Cisco will provide its CRS-1...

Ericsson has signed a contract with Baltic mobile operator BITE Group for the supply of 2G and 3G mobile systems infrastructure in Lithuania and Latvia until 2008. It will build Australia' s Telstra new 3G network under a $760m build and integrate deal....

Under competitive pressure from IPTV providers such as Internet and mobile TV providers. in France, Vivendi Universal, TF1 and M6 are holding talks to combine their satellite TV companies, Canal+ and TPS . Canal+ is 100% owned by Vivendi, while TPS is...

Telenor announced that its Broadband Global Area Network Service (BGAN) is commercially available to customers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. BGAN is provided by Inmarsat. BT is to buy Fiat' wholly owned telecom unit Atlanet in Italy for...

Virgin Mobile will launch MVNO services in South Africa, through a 50/50 venture with South African GSM network operator Cell C. DoCoMo will acquire a stake in Just In Mobile International (JMI), a Chinese mobile payment company, for $6m. It also plans...

Telsim (Turkey) has about 9,4m subscribers or 20% market share. Telefonica IPTV Imagenio has reached 123k subscriber mark in 10/05.