Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Broadband penetration in the EU passed 18%, according to ECTA, with 84m (+30%) broadband lines in use at the end of March. DSL continues to dominate the market with more than 82%. To compare these figures, the USA are given a 19.6% penetration and Japan...

Until recently, carriers were used to develop in-house their own OSS solutions, fully dedicated for each network, and therefore non-interoperable. And outsourcing OSS, a reality for alternative service provider, is just taking off for incumbents. The...

Apple' s iPhone is a success. It outsold all smart phones in the US in July, and accounted for 1.8% of all mobile-handset unit sales to U.S. customers during the month. Partly due to this success, and partly under threat of recent Nokia announcement,...

It is not really a surprise, but there is now a change in the way Africa is viewed. More and more people are concerned about Africa. The latest is ITU, an UN Telecom Agency, that supports a 'Marshall Plan' for Africa. The situation is very bad. Africans...

Until 2001, Nigeria had a poor telecom infrastructure, hardly handling some 450,000 connected lines or a meager 0.4% penetration rate. Between 2001 and 2007, NCC, the telecom regulator, granted six GSM licenses, respectively to Celtel, MTN, MTEL, Nitel,...

The EU Commission plans to issue a bill to force all operators to rent link capacity in ducts. The move is essential to improve competition. Without a law, alternative operators will continue to face problems to set up their networks: delays, high wholesale...

A few set of market information released this week: According to CCID, 70% of the Chine cellular handset market is captured by foreign brands. According to UN, world has 4bn lines, of which 1.3bn fixed lines and 2.7bn mobile lines. Over 1 bn people in...

Oracle is still hungry: the new preys are Netsure Telecom, a network intelligence and reconciliation leader, and Bridgestream, specialized in employee role mapping software . Another potential pray could be Comverse in whole or part (CNS division). Orca...

Orca announced it has taken a 33% stake in Blockbuster Israel for $2.5m. Ericsson has signed a collaboration program deal with Telekom Malaysia to develop IP Multimedia Subsytem-based (IMS) applications, and create a pool of local experts with IMS competencies....

Google and HTC would work together to launch a $100 mobile phone (Gphone) to compete with the Apple iPhone. The Gphone would include Linux OS, WiFi, GPS and GoogleMaps, and will use an ad-based business model. Huawei is likely to be fined by CAT Telecom...