Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Zhone Technologies launches its new VDSL2 customer premise equipment and VDSL2 line card for its Multi-Access Line Concentrator. Linksys (Cisco) and Telabria can now offer VoIP Services Over WiMAX. Alcatel has signed an agreement with South Korean telecom...

Chip makers see plunging cellphone prices in 2007, to $20 in retail price and $ 10 in production. Without lowering product quality, new chips could integrate fewer features in a $5 single chip. Ericsson has added new capabilities to its Mini-Link TN microwave...

Nortel will build a fixed WiMAX network in rural areas of Alberta, Canada. It also won an order from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) for a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) project. Juniper has been selected by Sri Lanka Telecom to...

UTStarcom will supply its C1161 CDMA 1x handsets to S-Fone, a nationwide CDMA service provider in Vietnam. Ericsson will provide a fully US, EU and NATO inter-operable mobile military communications system (MOKYS) to the Slovak armed forces. It also won...

Comtech reports FY1Q06 net sales of $107m, up 91%, and net income of $11,5m, up 62%. Ciena recorded a loss of $253m (about half the loss last fiscal year), but that only narrowed 2% excluding special costs and items. FY4Q05 revenues increased 44% to $118m....

Microsoft and Time Warner could be nearing deal to build online advertising service to compete with Google. In spite of having difficulties to find an agreement on assets (Microsoft still interested in some AOL assets), both giants could sign a deal on...

Neuf Telecom (France) focus on IPTV, as 30% of its new ADSL customers, that can receive TV, subscribed to Neuf TV. So Neuf is launching a new portal, personal program selection, TV alerts, kiosk services, RSS TV that display RSS content on the TV set,...

Orascom could be interested bidding for TIM Hellas (Greece). PT Mobile-8 Telecom (Indonesia) is in talks to be bought by PT Wireless Indonesia, a Sinar Mas Group subsidiary. Telekom Austria' s mobile arm mobilkom bought another 17% stake in Slovenian...

India currently has 38,5m internet users, up 54% yoy. That number is expected to grow to 100m in 2 years. The number of cyber cafes in cities and towns across India moved from 18,000 in 2001 to 105,350 this year. MTC (Kuwait) has over 12m subscribers...

Doug Campbell will retire as head of Telstra' s CountryWide rural services division. Bill Halbert, will head Sprint Nextel' s new Sprint Enterprise Mobility unit.