Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Who has not been angry against low battery load after just few hours activity with their mobile phones or laptops? The problem would be circumvented with new development using silicon nanowires. The promise is a ten-fold increase in lithium-ion (Li-ion)...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, there were 310m broadband customers in the world at the end of June 07 (more or less in line with stats from Point Topic published last week (Telcoflash Issue 191). According to Insight...

Fujitsu would spin off its semiconductor business into a separate company in 2Q08 in order to bolster earnings. Cisco announced a plan to invest about $1.5bn on information and communications technology in the United Arab Emirates over the next five years....

BigBand Networks unveils an upgrade of its switched digital video SDV platform. Cisco upgrades its Catalyst line of products with SOA, and Power over Ethernet. Siemens released its line of 802.11n product line, focusing on the enterprise. Juniper Networks...

Sanyo will sell its ailing mobile handset division to Kyocera for $375m. Huawei said it will offer a new solution, called 'Green Sites Solution', capable of slashing base station power consumption by 60%. Strong reaction in Germany (from authorities and...

Redline will supply WiMAX solution to CTR (Chile). ALU will deploy a new submarine network (called GO-1) between Malta and Italy for GO (Malta). Nortel is providing VOIP gear to Clearwire. Microsoft, Daum and Celrun are forming a JV to offer IPTV in South...

Huawei has won a $500m order from Reliance (India) for GSM infrastructure in India. Reliance is believed to prepare a massive GSM network tender (worth over $5bn and 70m lines). Ericsson is providing a 3G WCDMA network at 900MHz to Pannon (Hungary), and...

Tellabs reported 2007 revenues of $1.9bn, down 6%, and earnings of $65m, down 67%. 4Q07 financials, however, show some signs of improvement. 4Q07 revenues were up 3% to $469m and earnings were $6m (-78%). Broadband revenues were up 10% to $274m in the...

STC (Saudi Arabia) has bought 35% of Oger Telecom for $2.6bn. Forthnet (Greece) said it is in talks to sell 20% stake to Maltacom. Telefonica plans to invest $7bn in Brazil in next few years. Oger Telecom has made a non-binding bid on Telkom South Africa....

CMT , the Spanish telecom regulator, has ruled out forcing Telefonica to share cable ducts of its new fiber-optic network. O2 Germany offers unlimited access to the Napster music service with all new DSL subscriptions. Italy has received 29 bids for WIMAX...