Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Cisco is announcing its first wireless LAN mesh products. Motorola and Juniper Networks plan to jointly develop standards-based Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS) platforms to enable cable operators to reliably and cost-effectively support...

Siemens targets becoming Ericsson' s challenger in mobile core networks, overtaking Nokia, in the next two to three years. With this goal in mind, it has formed two partnerships in key Asian markets in an effort to improve its position in the market for...

Juniper Networks will provide Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) core network with its T-series routing platforms. UTStarcom has received an order from China Telecom for its mVision end-to-end IPTV system. Mintera was selected to provide a 40-Gbit/sec transport...

Nortel has been selected by Edge Wireless, a Cingular affiliate, to expand its mobile network in four states across western USA. Nortel will also trial UMTS and HSDPA technologies. Ericsson will provide Telstra with a 3G UMTS nationwide network, worth...

HP announced 7% growth in 3Q05 revenues to $22,9bn, but net income fell 62% mainly due to a huge provision of $1,6bn for covering re-organization costs. PC unit reports sales up 9% to $7,1bn, with an operating income of $200m. Store & Servers unit posts...

Telefonica has reached a Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) with China Netcom, to be effective after Telefonica buys additional stake in Netcom bringing its stake to about 10%. Telstra said that it would merge its mobile unit CSL (HK) with the operations...

German competitive operators and the European Commission have criticized the German regulator RegTP and Deutsche Telecom for preventing rivals from using DT' s new fiber-optic network, saying it is creating a new monopoly. BT signed WiFi roaming agreement...

Vodafone and America Movil have inked an international roaming agreement that covers 13 countries in Latin America. KT (Korea) targets launching mobile WiMAX (WiBRO) in Korea in June 2006. A demonstration will be provided to delegates of the WiMAX Forum,...

Vodafone 3G subscriber base was 4,9m at the end of Sept.05. Telecom Argentina announced 5,3m mobile subscribers (of which 51% are GSM), 3,6m fixed line users and 188,000 broadband subscribers. Digicel (Jamaica) announced 1,4m mobile subscribers. Virgin...

Telecom Argentina reports that 9-month revenues were up 26% to $1,4bn (of which mobile revenues were up 63% to $229m; internet and data revenues were up 11% to $115m), Net income declined 23% to $548m. Vodafone posted FY 1H05 (march- Sept.) results. Net...