Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Another record quarter for DSL shipments. For the first time, 25m DSL lines (+ 16%) were shipped in one quarter, according to OVUM-RHK. The main driver was Asia and specially the Chinese market. Asia accounts for more than 40% of the global market with...

It is an evidence that Bluetooth is currently gaining ground, but IMS forecasts it will not peak in the short or medium term. The range of potential applications for Bluetooth has not yet been realized, and the market trend is to avoid short-range wiring...

A few set of market information released this week: According to XiTi Monitor, Firefox reached a 28% market share in Europe, while Internet Explorer is down below 67% market share, followed by Opera with 3.5% share. According to Juniper Research, mobile...

Broadcom says it will receive about $40m from Qualcomm for patent infringement, after court doubles charges. IBM and SUN will cooperate to make better server technologies.

Sanyo (Japan) may sell its loss-making handset division, and could be in talks with mobile phone makers Sharp and Kyocera. The Sanyo phone business is too small with about only 1% market share. Shortfall: Nokia warns on overheating BL-5C batteries (made...

ALU will provide a FTTH rollout to new greenfield sites in Australia for TransACT. It will supply London Park Plaza Hotel with its IP telephony solutions. EADS and Thales will build 2 satellites for Abu Dhabi's YahSat. Tyco Telecom will supply a new submarine...

Ericsson has won an order from Finland's Elisa to supply WCDMA/HSPA equipment to roughly double Elisa's existing network. Ericsson and Pakistani operator Warid Telecommunications have signed a new 3-year managed services agreement for its nationwide GSM/GPRS...

Hughes Communications reported 2Q07 net income of $11m, vs a loss of $4m last year, and IH07 net income of $15m, vs a loss of $4m last year. Revenues increased 12% to $234m.

Omantel (Oman) would buy 65% stake in Worldcall (Pakistan) for about $156m. Portugal Telecom sells 22% stake in African investment holding company to private equity fund Helios for about €330m. FT targets to acquire as large a stake as possible in Vietnamese...

Telecom Egypt considers pulling out of fixed line market in Algeria. Sprint Nextel unveiled details on its future WiMAX network. The service will be branded Xohm. It will spend $5bn building the network by 2010, and expects there will be 50m devices for...