Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Motorola is buying software company Leapstone Systems that provides a unified platform for creating, managing and delivering converged video, voice and data service bundles across multiple networks and devices. Motorola is recording a pre-tax charge of...

ALU has launched the first DVB-SH trial network in partnership with SFR (France). DVB-SH is a new technology combining DVB-H standard with a satellite band in order to increase outdoor coverage, indoor coverage, offering more channels and more interactive...

RIM will introduce a 8820 Blackberry handset equipped with WiFi functionality. Neo 1973 is a GSM phone equipped with Linux OS (OpenMoko), with GPS and microSD memory card. Sold on the web site of Open Source OpenMoko. Motorola' s minority shareholders...

ALU will provide Portugal’s first CityNet metropolitan Ethernet network for Porto Digital. It will supply its Vitalsuite® AAA Security Authentication Management solution to Slovak Telekom. It got a €90m contract from Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information...

ZTE has received a GSM expansion contract worth $55m from Nepal Telecom for delivering 3.5m mobile lines. Nortel has been selected by Cricket Communications (USA) to provide CDMA equipment under a $135m deal. It has received a $150m order from T-Mobile...

Motorola announced a profit warning for 2Q07. The turnover will be at about $8.6bn, 8% below the target and Motorola would report a quarterly loss. The mobile phone unit will also be in red, and expects to count up only 35-36m handsets shipped in the...

Telefonica offers €3bn to fully control Vivo (Brazil), its joint affiliate with Portugal Telecom. Telefonica may sell its 10% stake in Portugal Telecom as part of the deal, but PT says it is also willing to buy Vivo. Teliasonera has bought 100% of MCT...

Bouygues Telecom (a French mobile operator) is starting its fixed broadband ADSL offer and could offer fixed-mobile convergence services in early 2008. Telekom Austria spun off its fixed-line business and implements a new organization. ATT has deployed...

France: the Consumer Union “UFC Que Choisir?” has released a report giving details on the poor competitive environment in the French mobile market, with high prices, high wholesale prices, mini 2-year subscriptions, etc. Reliance (India), with the help...

Vimpelcom (Russia) had 38.6m mobile subscribers (or 27% market share). France: 50m mobile subscribers, of which 5.7m are 3G. APAC: according to the CDMA Development Group (CDG), CDMA 2000 claims 161 million 3G subscribers (2.75 and 3G subscribers) in...