Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Nokia has launched a mobile printing service in Europe. Customers can now order prints directly from their mobile phone and have them delivered by mail. Motorola, Softbank and Ubiquisys are demonstrating 3G femtocell technology for the Japanese market....

Unisys signs multi-year managed network services agreement with BT. Tycom Reliance will lay 1,200km of fibre-optic cable from Trinidad to Curacao under a $248m project from Columbus Communications

NSN has received an order from Telefonica O2 Slovakia to build its GSM network, and a $900m deal with Indian Bharti to expand its mobile networks.

Telecom Italia sold its 10% stake in Oger Telecom to Saudi Oger for $744m. Oger Telecom is the largest stakeholder in the Turkish incumbent, Turk Telecom. Nielsen is acquiring Telephia, a European-based telecom-tracking firm on customer satisfaction,...

Altech Stream Rwanda will now provide broadband services using WiMAX and Wi-Fi. . Neuf Cegetel (France) completes Club Internet acquisition and claims over 3m mass market broadband subscribers. Egypt plans to grant a second landline license in 2008

Uganda Telecom plans to spend $50m for expanding its network in Uganda. Verizon Wireless announced it has upgraded its entire CDMA network to enhanced Revision A technology. Chile plans to open bidding for 3G and WiMAX in early 2008. MTS (Russia) has...

Hungary had 10.5m mobile subscribers in May. T-Mobile is the market leader with over 44% market share. Etisalat Egypt has neared 1m customers since its launch, two months ago. du (UAE) announced that it reached 500k customers. PLDT (Indonesia) had 27m...

Nokia Siemens Networks will cut 2,290 jobs in Germany. Nokia Siemens Networks names Sue Spradley North America region boss.

Nokia has announced a new organization, which goes into effect next Jan. 1. The goal is to capitalize on the new opportunities presented by convergence and boost efficiency of its operations and time to market. Nokia will have two reportable segments:...

Is it the end of a European bad Series? The EU Commission has released a draft statement to select the DVB-H standard for broadcasting mobile TV in European nations. One single mobile TV standard will avoid current multi-standard confusion, non-interoperability...