Portugal Telecom in partnership talks with China Unicom
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Portugal Telecom is in talks with China Unicom, the second-biggest Chinese telecommunications company, for a possible partnership in fast-growing China, a Portuguese business weekly newspaper reported.
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Mobile operators at the 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona are expected to discuss how they can work together to boost new mobile advertising services.
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By Li Weitao  Hong Kong-listed China Telecom Corp Ltd has agreed to buy telecom- related assets from its State-owned parent in a move to increase its stock appeal as it copes with a slowing fixed-line business and a failure to obtain licenses to offer mobile phone services.
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Building on a longstanding relationship, Alcatel (Quote, Chart) will help China Telecom deploy 1.3 million DSL (define) lines, the latest in a slew of recent industry deals from emerging markets.
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China&#39;s Lenovo Group is in talks with an unnamed major international IT company regarding a &quot;very substantial acquisition&quot;, the company announced yesterday.
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The two vendors are reportedly in talks to combine their wireless infrastructure units.
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Telecom executives are excited by the potential for 3G cellular networks in China, but the country wonÂt say which technology it will use or who will get licenses.
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(InfoWorld) - John Chambers, Cisco Systems' president and chief executive officer, would partner with Chinese rival Huawei TechnologiesÂ if the opportunity ever arose. "I would love to partner with Huawei," Chambers told reporters during a news conference at the Telecom World 2006 conference and exhibition organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Hong Kong. "That may or may not happen in the future," he said. Huawei is based in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, and has built a growing business on sales of telecommunications and networking gear. In addition to providing equipment to operators in China and in developing nations, Huawei has won significant deals from operators in Europe. In 2005, the company signed contracts worth $8.2 billion, of which 58 percent came from outside China. Relations between Cisco and Huawei have not always been warm. In 2003,Â Cisco sued HuaweiÂ for allegedly copying its IOS software. Cisco dropped that suit in 2004 after Huawei agreed to make changes to its software source code and user manuals. In recent years, Huawei has entered into several partnerships with multinational networking and telecommunication vendors, but these deals have not generally lasted very long. For example, a partnershipÂ agreement between Huawei and Nortel NetworksÂ announced in February never even got off the ground. Within four months, the two companies abandoned their plans to jointly develop broadband products. AÂ joint venture between Huawei and 3ComÂ also did not last. Established in 2003, Huawei-3Com Co. paired Huawei's enterprise networking unit with 3Com's financial backing. Under a deal announced last month, 3Com plans to buy out Huawei's remaining stake in the company, which sold 2 million routers and switches last year and employs about 5,000. Chambers said Cisco has a partnership in several areas with ZTE, another Chinese telecommunication equipment vendor that has looked to expand beyond its home market into new markets overseas. Telecom World runs through Friday. Â ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Virgin Group chief Richard Branson said yesterday he has earmarked US$300 million for a cellular phone joint venture on the Chinese mainland, the world&#39;s largest mobile market by users.
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By de Jonquieres, Julian  CHINA Google and China Mobile are to cooperate on mobile search facilities as both continue their diversification of services in the mainland.
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China and the European Union are making efforts to map out a new agreement, aimed at nailing down their strategic partnership into legal framework amid ever stronger political and economic relations.Comment
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Telecommunications companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG are in talks over a possible merger, Swisscom said.
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(InfoWorld) - Two global telecommunication organizations have agreed to collaborate in boosting mobile phone access in developing countries. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an arm of the United Nations responsible for telecommunications issues, and the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents the interests of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) operators, will work together in several areas, including projects aimed at low-cost access to mobile phone services, the two organizations said Tuesday. While GSMA is keen to help its members penetrate huge developing markets such as Africa, the ITU sees wireless as a relatively quick and cost-efficient way to provide phone service to people in countries lacking traditional fixed-line telephone infrastructure. The two organizations will focus on three primary areas: low-cost access to phone service, industry and government cooperation in planning and financing, and industry benchmarking. To help spur low-cost access to mobile phone services, GSMA and ITU will draw on programs each has established for developing markets and identify projects in which the two groups can pool their expertise and resources. While the GSMA has created its own development fund andÂ introduced contestsÂ to encourage the development of low-cost handsets, the ITU has launched its Connect the World initiative, a project to reduce the digital divide. Together, GSMA and ITU also intend to forge partnerships with governments and companies to assist with planning and investment. A key goal will be to establish a regulatory environment to safeguard investments in emerging markets and pursue innovative approaches for theÂ use of universal services fundsÂ to expand wireless access in rural and remote communities. Universal service funds are used mostly by governments in developing countries to subsidize the rollout of telecommunications services. Last year, GSMA estimated that governments in 15 countries have collected $6 billion for their universal service funds, including $2 billion that came from levies on mobile operators. Of this amount, governments have spent $1.6 billion, leaving billions untouched. As for industry benchmarking, both GSMA and ITU have huge statistical databases, which they intend to use to help create key industry and performance indicators for improving decision-making. Last week, GSMA published a study claiming that consumers and businesses in numerous developing countries are paying too much for international calls. Authors of the study call for introducing competition in international gateway services, a move that they claim could reduce call prices by up to 90 percent. The use of mobile phone technology to connect people will be a focus of the GSM World Congress, which begins next week in Barcelona.
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Operators and manufacturers to collaborate on next-gen mobile phone platform.
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Philippines mobile phone operator Smart Communications Inc. is in talks with Singapore&#39;s Mobile One for a possible tie-up, BusinessWorld reported Monday.
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Portugal Telecom wants to set up a new pan-African mobile services operator based in Angola, the company's chief executive officer said in a magazine interview published on Thursday.
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Telecommunications companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG are in talks over a possible merger, Swisscom said in a statement late Tuesday.