Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Tele2 is buying Lipetsk Mobile, a mobile operator with a GSM license in the territory of Lipetsk, in the central part of Russia. China Unicom launched new GPS service in 114 Chinese cities by the end of the year. MTN (S. Africa) buys 44% of Mascom Wireless...

Yahoo ! gives up in AOL bid because of unacceptable deal conditions. On the list to deal with Time Warner for AOL stake remains Google/ Comcast and Microsoft,

ZTE has won a contract with Nitel, Nigeria, to expand the country' s CDMA network. It also got a W-CDMA contract with Indigo Tajikistan, a joint venture belonging to the American multinational carrier MCT. Nortel won a GSM-R network for the Channel Tunnel...

Alcatel announced that MCI is deploying its next-generation signaling server to migrate the carrier's domestic and international SS7 signaling traffic to a packet-based solution. Nortel will deliver advanced broadband services and applications to Northern...

Samsung closed its handset assembly plant in Mexico. Vodafone tests HSDPA in Portugal. Nokia targets 32% share of Russia mobile phone market from current 28%. Huawei expect to ship 10m mobile phones in the year.

Calix announced that it will acquire Optical Solutions, an industry leader in gigabit passive optical network (GPON). Both are respectively leading the broadband loop carrier (BLC) shipments and FTTP GPON deployments. Nortel launched an end-to-end IPTV...

Qualcomm sues Nokia The complaint involves 12 GSM patents. Qualcomm, with respect to the patents alleged to be essential to the GSM/GPRS/EDGE standards, must license the patents on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms. The complaint follows another...

According to China-based CCID Consulting, 3Q05 mobile phone sales reached 21m units, with forecast of total shipment in 2005 of 88m units, up 21%. Nokia is the market leader with 19% market share, followed by Motorola with 12% and Samsung Electronics...

Higher, always higher speed It is one of the basic trend currently in transmission. Most of the operator' s marketing ads for their broadband services is based on speed. After ADSL that started with 512kbit/s few years ago, then currently transmitting...

DT plan DT unveiled what it has in mind for the next two years. It plans to ramp up its spending in 2006 by €1.2bn and rollout its fiber-to-the-curb access network. DT expects to deliver 1 million triple-play customers by the end of 2006, increase its...