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The region is one of the fastest growing region and recorded over 32m mobile user additions in 3Q07. African countries are driving the growth. The list of top 10 MNOs is not evolving a lot, but inside ranking is moving. Vodacom (S. Africa) leads the pack...

Point Topic has released its 3Q07 statistics. Briefly, the worldwide total of broadband users was 329m, up 25%, while broadband penetration was 5.7% (up 1.1 point). In fact, the total number of subscriber net additions has steadily decreased in 2007 from...

The market is booming with a 100% growth rate in 2007 to about €31m. Many platforms, such as Free, Orange, Canalplay, TF1 Vision, Vodeo, or M6Vision, .., already provide content and play a competitive game. Some are offering packages for video on demand...

APAC mobile dominance (numbers at 3Q07-end) In the top 20 mobile networks by customers, 8 are located in APAC; 6 are coming from China and India and account for over 650m subscribers or 20% of the worldwide total. The 6 are located 2 in China (China Mobile...

My best wishes for all of you and your family. 2008 will be great. Warmest Regards Jean ARNAL Telcoflash

According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide telecom carrier capex grew by 7% in 2007 to $251bn, driven by mobile and broadband demand. The research firm forecasts that worldwide capex will plateau in 2009 and begin declining in 2010. In developed...

The 3G subscriber base reached 68m in Europe at the end of September. This is almost 10% penetration, and net additions in the quarter totaled over 9m. Growth has been almost 86%, versus a poor 8% growth in pure 2G connections to almost 631m. As a result,...

8 countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and the UK) account for 70% of the total European subscribers. The largest country by subscriber is Germany with over 89m (+12%) users and a penetration rate of 108%. Italy is just behind...

What to think about two major announcements from Verizon Wireless? The first one is about its mobile network evolution. Verizon Wireless is now one of the largest CDMA networks in the world. But Verizon decided to move to LTE, the GSM world' s 3GPP future...

3.3bn mobile subscriptions mark has been reached last week, or about 50% of the world population has a mobile phone. Remember, it was in 1981, when the first mobile network was launched in Scandinavia. Today, there were about 224 countries with at least...