Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Broadcom is developing a 3G/HSPA processor on a 65nm CMOS chip. LG announced it has sold more than 300,000 units of its 5-megapixel camera-phone LG Viewty, in the past five weeks in Europe. ZTE has selected Trolltech' s Qtopia Phone Edition application...

EADS won the French Firemen PMR network contract, worth several tenth million Euros. Intracom / JSC Sitronics will deliver a MPEG4- IPTV solution to Bruce Telecom (Canada). Aperto will build first Egyptian WiMAX network for the police. Harris Stratex...

Starent Networks has been selected by Iusacell (Mexico) for its ST16 Multimedia core platform. Ericsson provides its U360 mobile platform to ASUSTeK Computer (Taiwan) for HSPA PC card. It will deploy Claro (Brazil) 3G/HSPA network. Mobilkom (Austria)...

RIM announced strong 3Q07 results, with revenues up 22% to $1.7bn and shipment of 3.9m Blackberry units in the quarter. It forecasts 4Q07 sales of between $1.8bn and $1.9bn and subs adds of about 1.8m.

The International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) has recognized the terrestrial digital mobile broadcasting (T-DMB) technology as a global mobile TV standard, in addition to other standards such as DVB-H, Mediaflow or OneSeg. The International Telecommunication...

O2 plans to launch IPTV trial in the UK, while Orange delays its UK IPTV launch. NeckarCom (Germany) has unveiled its VOIP service over a WiMAX network. The G9 consortium (led by Optus/ SingTel) in Australia is invited to revise its proposal for a national...

Kyivstar (Ukraine) has been awarded a 3G license in Ukraine. Telkom Kenya says that it plans to roll out a GSM network, as soon as it is granted a national mobile license. Telkom Kenya already operates a CDMA network. China Mobile and China Unicom are...

Brazil : the Brazilian mobile operators association (Acel) forecasts 118m mobile subscribers by the end of 2007, and that total would grow by 10-12% in 2008. In November, there were 116.3m mobile users. There were 7.1m fixed broadband accesses in Brazil...

As a result of the merger with C-COR, Arris will shed about 100 people. The management team is made of: Bob Stanzione, Arris chairman and CEO; Larry Margolis, Arris EVP and general counsel; and David Potts, EVP and CFO, Ron Coppock as sales and marketing...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Vodafone, the Indian market would grow at a CAGR of about 35% between 2006 and 2011. It currently has 37m mobile subscribers in the country, its largest market by customers, ahead of Germany...