Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Japan: J.Com (Jupiter Telecom) will merge with Jupiter TV after the deal between Sumitomo and Liberty Global. Colombus Networks is close to complete (in June) a new undersea fiber cable, which would connect Colombia to Florida. The new system will be...

Vodafone has been selected by the Portuguese government to provide fixed and mobile communications during the Portuguese EU Presidency. It is in talks with Ukrtelecom on the provision of 3G services in Ukraine. Reliance (India) slashes roaming tariff...

Oman announced subscriber statistics: 268,150 land-lines by the end ofMarch; 1.96m mobile users (+8%); almost 64k internet users. Entel PCS (Chile) had 5m mobile users at the end of 2006. China has 612k IPTV subscribers, up 36%.

C&W reports FY07 net profit dropping 53% to €121m, on revenues of €4.9bn, up 4%. EBITDA increased by 26% to €726m. PT Indosat (Indonesia) said its 1Q07 net profit rose by 26% to $54m, on revenues of $419m, up 30%. Vimpelcom (Russia) announced 1Q07 revenues...

Klaus Kleinfeld, ex Siemens COO, out, Peter Lösher, 49, has been named to take the helm at Siemens from July 07. The two Vodafone directors on the Board of Bharti Airtel have left the company following its takeover of Hutch-Essar.

A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, 2006 worldwide Wi-Fi RFID tag shipments reached 135,000. AeroScout is the market leader. ABI Research predicts that 3G would capture 30% of the cellular machine-to-machine (M2M)...

Cisco and NSN have signed an agreement to develop a standards-based network management OSS platform that will help service providers speed up the time it takes to launch new services. The deal combines Cisco' s expertise in IP networking with NSN' s end-to-end...

Cisco is back in the WiMAX bandwagon. Up to now, Cisco was questioning the technology' s chances of success; now it is developing internally some WiMAX products. Shortfall: According to Optus and Netcom, Huawei DSLMA hardware does not support connection...

Agilent and Teradata have reached a deal to combine their respective OSS and front- and backoffice information (billing, CRM or provisioning) expertise. Their combined offering is called assureME Intelligence. Change in mobile phone vendors in Taiwan:...

ALU will be the system integrator for Telus' Subex Azure IP broadband service provisioning solution. It will deploy a new IP-based private communications network for Transpower New Zealand. Cisco is deploying CRS-1 terabit routers for Magyar Telekom (Hungary)....