Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia will pay $8bn for the US navigation software maker Navtech. With the move, it confirms it is more and more interested in mobile content. LogicaCMG has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The ALU board has issued a statement to say...

Nokia and Avaya announced the next phase of their strategic collaboration for delivering fixed to mobile convergence applications for enterprises. ALU supports a mixed solution for GPON' s successor made of a mix of TDM and WDM current solutions. Italtel...

Palm will launch a $100 Centro smartphone. It is considered as the last chance for survival by analysts. HTC launches the HTC Touch Dual with 3.5G connectivity in Europe. Samsung targets capturing a 18% market share in India by the end of 2008. NSN 3G...

Infinera will provide optical gear to OVH (France). Jabber will supply BT with its Jabber XCP platform to provide instant messaging. ECI Telecom is deploying its broadband access solution into Telecom Italia network in Italy. Harris has been awarded a...

HTC will provide 30,000 “9110” handsets to Chunghwa Telecom. Comverse is deploying real-time billing solution for Digitel (Venezuela). Ericsson is supplying Bhutan Telecom (BTL) with a WCDMA/HSPA network. He will deploy HSDPA for Teliasonera and Tele2...

RIM reported soaring profit in 2Q07 to $288m (up 100%), on revenues of $1.4bn (up 100%). Tellabs announced a profit warning for 3Q07, with gross profit margin not exceeding 32%. .

The European Commission will investigate Qualcomm for possible antitrust rules violation. ATT has applied for wireless licenses in 22 regional circles in India through a partnership with India's Mahindra Telecom. Microsoft buys Jellyfish.com for an undisclosed...

The city of Paris (France) has open more than 300 free WiFi hotspots. More than 400 hotspots would be deployed across Paris. Zain (ex MTC) has deployed a WiMAX network in Bahrain. ATT would be interested in buying satellite TV provider EchoStar for $25bn....

Nigeria planned to quadruple GSM base station to 40,000 by 2010. Telkom Kenya has been awarded a mobile operator license. 3 and Skype will cooperate to develop a handset with both of their services. Guamcell (GUAM) is new on the list of CDMA operators...

PT Telkom (Indonesia) had 44m mobile subscribers at the end of July (+16%). Bangladesh had 32.4m mobile users at the end of July. DoCoMo currently has 40m 3G subscribers, but the growth is poised to slow down from now. CDMA subscriber base in LATAM is...