Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Qualcomm raised its FY4Q05 revenue forecast to $1.58bn (from $ 1.48bn) on strong chip sales.

Nortel has received a one-year network optimization contract by China Mobile Hong Kong for Xinjiang Mobile. Ericsson is supplying 3G UMTS/HSDPA infrastructure equipment as second supplier to Partner Communications (Israel).

Ericsson is expanding the fixed wireless infrastructure of Nigerian Telecommunications (Nitel). Nortel has deployed a packet voice backbone network for Telefonica Moviles Mexico. Ciena has been selected to deploy metro transport and switching solutions...

Ericsson has stated that Thailand is a good potential market for 3G services. BenQ targets doubling its turnover in 2006 to $ 10bn. IPWireless announced UMTS RailLink, a high-speed broadband connectivity and WiFi access even in the world's fastest tr...

Nortel plans African wireless broadband network using CDMA 450 technology. ZTE plans to launch a trial WiMAX service in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.

Siemens has invested in Tropos, a US-based Wi-Fi wireless mesh network provider. Microsoft has re-organized in three divisions: 52 Oracle does not want to stay behind and creates Oracle Retail, and acquires Glog, an expert is supply chain. The moves answer...

According to eMarketer, the NA mobile market is expected to surpass 240m subscribers by 2009, though year-over-year growth is forecast to slow. According to the Radicati Group, 74% of all corporate telephony lines will be IP lines in 2009. Worldwide revenue...

Vodafone: announced 4.3m 3G subscribers at the end of August. Canada has reached 16m mobile subscribers. Broadband services connected in Australia near 2.2m, up 108%. Safaricom (Kenia) has attained 3m active subscriber mark after 5 years in operation....

SingTel issued its first-ever profit warning. Strong mobile competition in Australia is given as main driver.

Millicom International Cellular has acquired Oasis a GSM mobile unit based in Republic of the Congo. Reliance Infocom (India) is planning to place order for 1 million mobile phone handsets in the next two months. Iceland Telecom is planning to deploy...