Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Alcatel will provide RAI Way (a unit of RAI in Italy) with a full Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) backbone transport network for video contribution and distribution throughout Italy.

Motorola has acquired a European team of i-mode design employees and a research center in Rennes, western France. The team is part of Melco Mobile Communication Europe (MMCE), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric. The Rennes facility will become a European...

Cisco released its latest IOS security alert, warning of a hole in its firewall authentication proxy.

Microsoft announced additional partner support for its IPTV software platform. Motorola, Thomson and Cisco/Linksys/KiSS have joined the pack. Motorola and Apple have finally unveiled their iPhone, a Motorola handset with iTunes software, the Motorola...

According to Gartner, Japanese domestic sales of mobile phone handsets are expected to reach a record of 49m units in 2006 and then begin declining. Forward Concepts predicts that the WiMAX and pre-WiMAX equipment market, including 802.16d and 802.16e,...

China: The telecom market is expected to evolve in coming months, mainly driven by 3G licenses introduction, market restructuration and value-added services. Most of analysts now expect 3G licenses will be introduced early next year. Uncertainties still...

3G Americas reports that GSM attracted some 1.5bn users, up 347m in the past twelve months. The Americas were posting the biggest gains, with 79.4m new subscribers. 3G UMTS/W-CDMA accounts for about 33m. In comparison, CDMA 2000 users account for 185m,...

European spectrum reform: Europe needs a spectrum management reform, and it is a key issue for regulators. Vodafone CEO pressured regulators to complete the work no later than 2010, as all mobile operators depend on spectrum allocation to offer wireless...

Secure WiFi: In spite of ad-hoc protocols, VPN tunnels or AAA servers used to secure applications, WiFi is not perceived as a secure transmission technology. In its recent Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel has presented an interesting solution...

Japan: DoCoMo gained a net 119,900 subscribers in July, while KDDI added 185,300 net new subscribers and Vodafone added 3,600. DoCoMo currently has 15.9m FOMA subscribers; KDDI reported 19.3m 3G users, and Vodafone has a little bit less than 1.6m 3G subscribers....