Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola is looking for a new leader for its struggling mobile phone unit. Meanwhile, Carl Icahn has increased its stake in the company to 6.3% (from 5% last month). Carl Icahn favored a sale of the mobile phone unit. NSN outsources R&D to Tata Consultancy...

Cisco unveiled its new middle range router, ASR 1000 or Aggregation Service Router, equipped with a new ASIC processor and with a non-stop communication feature. The development cost $250m and the team was big of over 100 engineers. ALU announced extension...

Nokia plans to embed Microsoft’ s Silverlight technology on its handsets. Mitsubishi will go out the mobile phone market. Ningbo Bird (China) will sell its 50% stake in its handset joint venture with Sagem Mobile to Safran (France) for about €15m. ALU...

Ericsson will supply IMS-based personal multimedia communication, such as video conferencing and call center, for the Beijing Olympics, to Beijing Netcom. Samsung has received a contract from UQ Comms (Japan) for Wibro mobile WiMAX equipment. ALU and...

Nortel and Motorola have received an unexpected order from BSNL (India) for 5m mobile lines, equally split between the two vendors. Ericsson has been selected by E-Plus (Germany) to expand and upgrade its 3G network. Vodafone Australia has selected it...

UTStarcom reports 4Q07 revenues of $806m, while net loss narrowed to $25m. For 2007, revenues were $2.5bn and net loss was $196m.

Yahoo would be in talks with Time Warner to counter Microsoft's bid. AOL USA would be at the center of the talks, with Time Warner taking a mall stake in a common JV. ATT plans to invest $1bn in capex this year to upgrade its international network; this...

France targets that 100% of French households have broadband internet access before 2012. Comstar Ukraine launches IPTV in Odessa city. MTL (Malawi) plans to invest $25m to build a fiber-optic infrastructure. Sonera (Finland) plans to invest in FTTH....

Vodafone Germany would offer to its customers a way to bypass roaming charges when abroad, using voice over IP. It also partners with Deutsche Bahn on a mobile ticketing trial using NFC-based solutions. Vodafone confirms its commitment to femtocell with...

M6 Mobile (France) currently has about 1m subscribers. France reports 15.5m (+22%) broadband users in France at the end of 2007, of which 14.8m are ADSL. Unbundled lines account for 5m (of which 3.6m with total unbundling). Orange has 50% of ADSL lines,...