Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola could sell its automotive unit that makes sensors for vehicle navigation and safety services. It will, allied with China's retail chain powerGome, sell low-end handsets in China. Nokia is talking to operators in India about migrating to W-CDMA...

Nortel signed an OEM agreement with Airspan covering the distribution and sale of Airspan's AS.MAX family of (fixed) WiMAX broadband wireless access products. It also made a deal with Intel on mobile WiMAX (802.16e standard ).

picoChip and ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of S. Korea) will collaborate in the area of Software Defined Radio for WCDMA/HSDPA and WiMAX. Marconi opens a NGN Regional Center of Excellence in Shanghai.

Mobile WiMAX, or IEEE 802.16e, could be standardized before the end of the month. Mobile WiMAX allows mobile users to stay connected when moving. The technology, allowing higher data stream, could complement 3G-WCDMA for VoIP, web browsing, IPTV and ......

M&A activity: frenzied Are we in 2005? Recent investments furiously look similar to M&A moves in the end of the 90s. A large company which is investing billion of dollars in a small company with almost no sales, recall me some famous operations before...

TD-SCDMA 'ready for commercial deployment' : As announced in previous Telcoflash issues, Chinese officials have said that after latest field trials, the major obstacles to building out 3G networks based on the home-grown standard TD-SCDMA have been overcome....

2bn mobile users worldwide: The cellular industry will reach a major milestone this week end with 2bn mobile subscribers according to Wireless Intelligence. That means that one in three persons in the world has a mobile phone (penetration of about 31%)....

Belgium: 2m internet connections in 2Q05. Pakistan has reached in 08/05 the 15m mobile subscriber mark, or a mobile teledensity of 10%. Mobilink was by far the dominant player with 7.5m users, while Ufone had 2.6m. Broadband: in the world, there were...

Bouygues Telecom (France) reported 1H05 results. Net profit rose 39% to € 384m.

T-Mobile will sell its 10% stake in Russia's OJSC Mobile TeleSystems. Some confusion still exists as to whether or not Turkcell actually paid its share of the license fees in due date (as part of the IranCell consortium in Iran). TurkCell says yes, but...