Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

After 3G? It is 3G LTE 3G may need a major leap forward in capabilities to remain competitive, amid alternative technologies, such as DVB-H and WiMAX. HSDPA or MBMS (multimedia broadcast and multicast service) only bring short -term enhancements, but...

FON vision Google and eBay division Skype have invested into FON. FON has no link with the Sprint fiber optic network, but is a Spanish start-up company which turns home wireless routers into WiFi hotspots, creating a global network of shared WiFi connections....

High-quality services It is fashionable now! And it is the way operators want to differentiate their services from competitors offering commodity best-effort-based services. As well as Bellsouth and AT&T, France Telecom is riding the same horse: pay for...

Cutting international roaming fees: Now! The European Commission targets cutting international roaming fees. In spite of previous (and inefficient) demands on this subject to mobile operators, and opening a web site benchmarking European tariffs, EU want...

3G license fee tax refunds European mobile operators paid about €100bn for 3G licenses in the 98-02 period. In auctioning or selling at high prices 3G licenses, European governments made huge profits. It is why some mobile operators say that they are...

European 3G users behavior Although 3G users account for a low percentage of mobile phones users overall (7.5% in the UK; 3% in Germany; and 2% the US), some studies are beginning to appear on their service usage. Not surprisingly 3G subscribers are as...

WiMAX future According to Senza Fili Consulting, WiMAX will quickly dominate the fixed broadband wireless market, but its success in the mobile arena will be slower and more difficult to achieve. 802.16e standard (or WiMAX mobile) would account for about...

CALA CDMA status: Central and Latin America region is the second most important region in the world, behind Asia, for CDMA 2000 1X and 1X EV-DO. With about 40% of the world 1X EV-DO networks, Latam account for 10 CDMA 2000 1X EV-DO networks deployed in...

A few set of market information released this week: Dell'Oro forecasts that the carrier IP telephony market revenues could reach $4.7bn in 2010( from $1.4bn in 2004). In-Stat reports that worldwide cable telephony service revenues should rose to $10bn...

Ericsson plans to invest some $100m annually in India for the years to come. NEC claims its success in in developing the world's first reliable signal creation and processing technology in the wireless 3- to 9 GHz UWB wide bandwidth range. Nortel may...