Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Gareth Jones, 3 UK' s COO could leave the company. Peter Borger, president of Siemens Shanghai Mobile, is going to leave at the end of this year. Brian McFadden (CTO) and Sue Spradley (President of Wireline Networks and President of VOIP for Metro and...

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Not yet for this year? Xmas is almost there and 3G phones were expected to be the must-have Christmas gifts. Alas! the new phones are not quite good or cheap enough to compete with 2G/2,5G handsets. Several actors in the market estimate that the migration...

Western Europe mobile Capex It is an evidence saying WE mobile market is close saturation and the network infrastructure capex is mainly driven by replacement equipment and migration to 3G and NGN core networks. This translates into a relatively strong...

France' s DTT (digital terrestrial TV) reached 1m households passed, or about 10% penetration in covered areas. According to IDC, the server market grew 8% in 3Q05, with $12,5bn sales driven by low-cost equipment segment. Windows-based servers gained...

Huawei expects its 2005 Russian sales would grow to $310m, up 18%. Alcatel targets to go back outside telecoms. Its CEO said it is interested to agree with Thales, a defense contractor. The past 10-year strategy was focused on streamlining the conglomerate...

Ericsson is buying the Australian company TUSC, a subsidiary of Sydney-listed Allied Technologies, specialized in systems integration for telecommunications.

Motorola announced the successful completion of a 6-month trial of its 3GPP compliant UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) solution with Teliasonera Denmark.

ZTE will supply China Telecom with an IPTV infrastructure for a Jiangsu-province trial involving up to 100,000 subscribers. It is the second similar deal with China Telecom after the Shannxi province contract. Tandberg TV will supply HK' s PCCW with HD...

Ericsson signed a new managed services deal with 3 Italy to provide hosted ringback tones. The contract is an extension of the previous managed services deal, signed in 1Q05. It has received two other contracts from Caribbean Digicel group in Haiti and...