Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Tele2 acquisistion of Comunitel (Spain) has been cleared by Spanish anti-trust authorities. China Netcom and Telefonica strategic agreement will include coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games. Telefonica is finalizing an official bid for Colombia Telecomunicaciones....

Google could make a rival bid for AOL , and not leave empty room to Microsoft. Tunisie Telecom will launch an IPO on 35% of its equity, targeting to raise $1.7bn. FT, Telecom Italia Vivendi Universal and Telefonica are mulling bids. TAP Air Portugal and...

Sycamore posted FY 3Q05 (ended in April 05) revenues of $17.8m, up 21%, and a net loss of $12m (down 13%). HTC , a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, posted 2Qrevenue at $493m, up 11%, mainly due to the 3G handset shipments.

Ericsson has landed a network management outsourcing contract from Vodafone in Netherlands. LogicaCMG is working on a €6m location-based services project for Galileo, the European global positioning system. Alcatel will carry out part of Qatar Telecom...

Alcatel has received a €120m contract from U.K. Highways Agency to build and deploy a converged high-speed telecommunication network alongside England's motorways. Lucent and Juniper have been selected by Access One. Zhone Technologies will supply broadband...

Motorola is bolstering its suite of network services to offer multivendor services that help operators expand application offerings, manage and optimize networks. It also announced that its Networks division is launching Motorola Applications Hosting...

Motorola and Sonus are demonstrating voice over wireless broadband at Fall VON 2005. Siemens and Genesys are jointly integrating SIP-based solutions to provide contact center virtualization from a single platform. Nokia is joining the Eclipse Foundation...

LogicaCMG will buy French rival Unilog for € 930m. With this move, LogicaCMG enters the top 10 data processing companies in Europe. SAP is to buy Triversity, a small Canadian software house. The move follows the competitive deal between Oracle and Siebel....

Mobile TV and video services could overwhelm 3G networks in the next two years, according to Sound Partners. According to their model, 40% of of 3G users taking up mobile TV and video services and consuming as low as 8 minutes of video per day, could...

According to NanoMarkets, 2006 would be the year for mobile fuel cells for mobile devices. It forecasts that the market could be worth $1.6bn in 2010 and $2.7bn in 2012. Mobile music downloads is to reach $1.8bn in Europe by 2010, according to research...