Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Reinhard Clemens has been named T-Systems head. Nortel appoints Pavi Binning as CFO. ALU/ Genesys has appointed Paul Segre President and CEO. Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom is stepping down as CEO of the company to become non-executive chairman. Rudi...

Do not forget that the telecom turmoil in 2000 was due to overcapacity, price collapse and easy money. The current situation is quite different. It took years to digest overcapacity and money is no more so easy. But.... In recent Telcoflash posts, I wondered...

In 2Q07, there were minor changes in the top European mobile operators ranking. T-Mobile Germany has regained the number one spot from TIM Italy. It added some 1.3m new subscribers (second best performer in the quarter) , while TIM added far less to a...

The WiMAX World USA in Chicago is the right occasion to look at the market and its future. As ever with new technologies, there were the “movers” that support it (almost unconditionally), the “followers” that cannot accept the idea to be laggards, and...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Harris Interactive/Novartis, 46% of French companies have already changed for VOIP. Main reasons are cheaper costs and new services. According to Informa, the global IMS equipment market...

Arris has entered into a definitive agreement to buy C-COR for about $730m. ALU board is calling for CEO Patricia Russo to present an emergency plan at the end of October, a way to put pressure on the CEO. ALU accelerates its integration plan, and the...

ALU: in spite of a profit warning last week, ALU said it will buy UK-based Tamblin to re-enforce its interactive IPTV portfolio. Separately, it announced a joint development agreement with Kyocera (Japan) for the development of end-to-end WiMAX mobile...

Huawei could face $670m fine from its customer CAT (Thailand) for late delivery.

NSN has received an order from DT for an IP network maintenance contract. ALU will deliver IP routing solution (including IP/MPLS switching and routing products) for next-generation residential services to Telecom NZ. It will deploy a triple play capable...

Nortel (through its local partner Kapsch CarrierCom) won a new GSM-R (GSM for railways) contract with Czech Railways. ALU has signed four contracts with three China Mobile units (Ghuizhou , Shanxi, Shanghai) for their GSM networks and one China Unicom...