Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

T-Online (Germany) reports 3Q05 sales of €506m, up 4%, and EBITDA of €77 m, down 50%. PLDT (Philippines) announced record net earnings. Revenues in the third quarter was down 6,6% to $560m and 3Q05 net earnings reached $146m. 9-month revenues were at...

Telecom giant Shin Corp (Thailand) will invest $1bn in 3G mobile phone infrastructure next year, Sprint Nextel is launching its Nextel Direct Send Picture service that allows iDEN walkie-talkie customers to send and receive pictures. Sprint Nextel has...

Xo (US) is selling its nationwide wireline telecom business to Elk Associates for $700m, and will focus on broadband wireless, It will held its broadband wireless spectrum in the 28 GHz and 31 GHz bands covering more than 70 metropolitan markets. ONO...

Google will launch Google Local for mobile, a GPS service for end-users, available from mobile handsets. The software is free of charge, but the operator could charge the service, Yahoo! will integrate its web search engine into mobile phones. Microsoft...

Alvarion reports 3Q05 revenues of $45m, down 14%, and a net loss of $5,5m (vs profit of $4,4m). Alvarion has deployed its WiMAX products in about 30 networks and its BreezeMAX solution generated about 20% of total revenues,

Pantech has landed a 300,000 CDMA handsets order in India from Tata Teleservices (TTSL). Ericsson will build a GSM network for Digicel in Haiti. Qualcomm got an order from O2 (UK) to deploy its open and flexible UiOne offering. It is the first order of...

Juniper is deploying its E-series broadband routers in PCCW' s network to allow video-on-demand services and broadband TV offering. ADVA announced the deployment of a 10-Gbit/s Ethernet network for cable operator ZTV of Japan. Nortel is supplying its...

Nokia starts shipments of Nokia 770 phone, part of its new Internet Tablet suite. Motorola unveils four new RAZR handsets, including one that supports CDMA 1X EV-DO technology. It also has invested in Tekion, a North American developer of micro fuel cells....

European ObjectWeb and Chinese Orientware will jointly develop an open-source-based middleware platform. ObjectWeb is an European consortium, created by INRIA, while Orientware is an affiliate of the Chinese High-Tech Research and Development Program,...

According to Eureca Research, about 29.5m mobile TV phones will use the DAB standard by 2010. GPS services are in demand from consumers and businesses, In Europe, 6m GPS built-in mobile terminals would be sold this year, and 8m in 2006. Mozilla' s Firefox...