Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

ALU, Nortel, Huawei and Airvana, all are offering CDMA 2000 EV-DO Rev. A public safety equipment. Samsung is using Broadcom wireless chips in its 3G handsets. It is working with SUN to develop an iPhone -killer handset. ALU and Sagem are jointly developing...

ALU won a core IP/MPLS network deal with SFR (France). It will deploy its GPON solution for very high speed services for Neuf Cegetel (France). Kordia (NZ) has selected ALU for its IP routing solution to broadcast digital television. ALU provides an intelligent...

Nortel will deliver a 1X EV-DO Rev. A network to PEOPLEnet in Ukraine. Telcordia becomes FT' s preferred supplier for service quality analysis. NSN will deploy its Intelligent Packet Core networks architecture, able to support GSM and 3G networks in the...

UTStarcom reports 2006 financial results. Sales were $2.5bn, net loss amounted to $117m, and gross margin was just below 16%. It will cut 11% of its workforce or about 700 people, mainly in China and the US, as part of a restructuring plan. Sony Ericsson...

Sprint Nextel settles its patent suit against Vonage. Vonage will pay $80m to Sprint Nextel. Google has swallowed Jaiku, a Helsinki-based presence sharing service focused on micro social network. European Union Telecom Commissioner is considering the...

Vodafone would pay €775m in cash for taking over Tele2' s Italian and Spanish broadband operations. Rumor: Verizon should have inflated its FiOS subscriber numbers. PAN Telecom (Ukraine) was awarded a 10-year WiMAX network operating license. Ertach (Argentina)...

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular (all in India) are considering merging their tower operations. Teliasonera is testing NFC (Near Field Communications) in Sweden. Vimpelcom/ Armentel has been granted a 3G license in Armenia, as well as K-Telecom/MTS....

Japan: Softbank is the winner in 1H07 mobile subscriber growth with about 1.1m new users, while KDDI added just over 1m and DoCoMo only 320k. Ukraine: 53m mobile subscriber base at end-August, with Kyivstar having a 43% market share and Mobile TeleSystems/UMC...

LogicaCMG appoints Andy Green (ex BT) as new CEO. Gary Forsee, Sprint Nextel CEO steps down, and is replaced by Paul Saleh. Stan Sigman will retire from ATT Wireless. Ralph de la Vega will take over Sigman’s post.

A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, more than 430m SIP and UMA terminals would be sold in 2012. According to Insight Research, FMC services would generate more than $35bn in revenue for service providers and hardware...