Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

KDDI, Toshiba and Hitachi are working together on methanol fuel-cell. Commercial launch is expected to take place by March 2006. Siemens is launching Mobile TV Streaming over GPRS or W-CDMA/UMTS networks.

ECI Telecom unveils a new IP DSLAM, Hi-Focus5, available before the end of the year. Keymile has renamed its IP DSLAM MileGate 2500. Lucent and u²t Photonics have announced joint 40Gbit/s development activity. Tellabs could be interested in buying Redback,...

French Government would rather sell part of its 31% stake in defense electronics group Thales to Alcatel than to European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS). Ericsson could be interested in Marconi, while Huawei could offer $1.2bn to takeover Marconi....

According to Research and Markets, worldwide Telco TV subscribers could reach 32m by 2009. Convergence Consulting Group predicts that US cable operators would capture 12% of the US residential voice market by the end of 2007 at the expense of telcos,...

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IMS or IP Multimedia Subsystem: IMS consists of a single, converged architecture for wireline and wireless service providers, and the systems integration necessary to deliver high-quality IP multimedia services for and between any wireline and wireless...

WiMAX taking off soon? Intel invests a lot in promoting WiMAX. Asia is the targeted region to start, and trial WiMAX networks are planned in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Intel is also engaged in trialing WiMAX in Spain with...

Motorola wins again a deal to supply 6m low-cost phones The GSMA announced that Motorola has been selected to supply the phase-two of the program to make mobile telephony affordable for people in developing countries. "Motorola won thanks to a combination...

Mobile TV trial results: Mobile TV and video services are viewed by operators as a means to drive 3G take-up and increase average revenue per user (ARPU. Orange UK reported first results of its mobile TV trial service, offering nine channels for £10 a...

Hungary: announced 9m mobile subscriber mark. T-Mobile Hungary is the market leader with over 45% market share, followed by Pannon GSM with 34% and Vodafone with just above 20%. US: according to Openwave, there are about 8.2m MVNO mobile data subscribers,...