Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

According to Point Topic, there were 298m (+5.8% qoq) broadband users in the world at the end of March 2007. The top 10 countries by number of subscribers are: USA with 60.3m, China 56.3m, Japan 26.5m, Germany 16.1m, France 15.3m, S. Korea 14.1m, UK 13.9m,...

There are now nearly 3bn (+5.6% qoq) mobile users in the world and they could be 3.25bn, or over half the world's population, by the end of the year. The mobile industry continues to follow strong demand, especially in India, China and Africa. Africa...

With a new president (Joeri Van Bogaert) and refocused targets, the FTTH Council Europe forecasts 8m fiber-connected households in Europe by 2012 (from 820k at the end of 2006). Of this 8m, about 6m would be coming from buildouts by utility firms, city...

The EU Commission has decided to form an European Institute of Technology (EIT), and it could start operations in two years. States have already agreed on the scheme, but the European Parliament has yet to approve. EIT will be made of KICs (knowledge...

A few set of market information released this week: iSuppli predicts that touch-screen technology will experience healthy growth in the coming years. Top 8 touch-screen technologies overall revenues are expected to rise from $2.4bn this year to $4.4bn...

Microsoft is acquiring Stratature, one of the main MDM (Master Data Management) solution providers, for an unknown amount. LogicaCMG becomes Acision . ALU will open its 20th certified training center in Egypt. This is the first in MEA. ALU and Telstra...

Nortel is teaming with ZyXEL Communications for PCMCIA cards and CPE equipment. Juniper has announced méga-router T1600 with a capacity of 1.6 Tbit/s to be available by the end of 2007. Microsoft has relaunched its IP TV platform under the Mediaroom brand,...

Nuance Communications acquired Tegic, a subsidiary of AOL, for $265m. Sony Ericsson establishes a mobile handset R&D center in Chennai,India. It introduced also a line of six new high-end feature-rich phones, including two music-enabled Walkman models...

ALU will upgrade Brasil Telecom GlobeNet's 22,000 km submarine network and double its capacity. It won a triple-play contract from Kenya Data Network (KDN) under a $19m deal. It will double Kazakhtelecom’ s network capacity across 11 regions in Kazakhstan....

Ericsson will provide over 27m mobile GSM lines, while NSN will provide over 18m GSM lines, to BSNL (India), under a global $4.5bn deal. It will provide its mobile TV solution to Síminn, Iceland's largest mobile operator. It has been selected by Orascom...