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Worldwide telecom/ datacom equipment market
Worldwide telecom/ datacom equipment market According to Infonetics, the worldwide total telecom and datacom equipment revenue totaled $108bn in 2005, and could grow to $143.5bn in 2009. Most of the growth should be driven by NG voice and broadband aggregation...
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MVNOs in France
If we look at market figures, they do not weigh a lot in the French mobile market. Less than 1% of the subscriber base (about 425k subscribers) for about 10 MVNOs operating now in France. But growth is much more impressive. In 1Q06 they added almost 146k...
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GSM success
The GSM Association (GSMA) is pleased to periodically report the advance of the GSM technologies. And it is right that numbers are favorable: 1.8bn GSM users in the world and fastest growing user base; a GSM world more than six times bigger (82% market...
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Telecom panorama in France
ARCEP, the French regulator agency, has unveiled some interesting figures on the French telecom market. The global market was worth some €10.4bn in 4Q05, of which 80% from fixed telephony, mobile services and Internet. These three segments grew about...
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Mobile data
Remember, it was in the beginning of the third millennium, and most (all) mobile operators and market analysts were projecting mobile content revenues to jump to 20%-25% of their total revenues (from 7%-8%) in a 5-year period. We are in 2006, and what...
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Mobile payments
Mobile payments m-Commerce era is taking off, and will see tremendous expansion in coming years. The trend, highlighted by Juniper Research, would be marked by the entrance of new players offering m-payment schemes, such as PayPal, offering a new text...
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European roaming fee cuts (continued II)
The arm-wrestling match between The EU Commission and European mobile operators has continued last week. The European mobile operators' strategy is clear: trying to render EU Commission' s project harmless and avoid harsh regulation. During the week,...
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FTTH shipments
According to Dittberner, worldwide FTTH shipments increased 22% quarter-over-quarter and 180% from the same quarter last year, to 925,000 new subscribers, of which almost 82% in Japan. The technology split is 75% for GPON-EPON and 25% for BPON. In 1Q06,...
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Nortel 2006 guidance
Nortel is back in the news. Not necessarily with good news, but we enjoy hearing from an old Lady. Latest announcement was on financial results. 1Q06 is announced to be lower than expected: revenues could be flat or slightly down, and loss should be higher...
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Europe and APAC Carrier Capex assessment
Infonetics Research has unveiled its latest assessment of worldwide carrier capex. European telecom carrier capex should reach €60bn this year, after increasing 10% to € 54bn in 2005. That accounts for about 15% of revenues on average in 2005 and slightly...
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Skype launches free calls in North America.
All Skype NA users would be allowed to place free calls to fixed and mobile in North America. Up to now, Skype has offered free calls between PCs, but with the new offer Skype makes a decisive step towards free telephony, strongly shaking the telecom...
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Survey: 1bn people access the Internet
According to eMarketer, 250m households had broadband access at the end of 2005, and 1bn people had access to the Internet worldwide. 845M people are regularly using the Internet. Europe accounts for about 23%-24% of internet users and 22% of the world's...
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3G phone sales are booming in Japan
According to Jeita, the Japanese IT & Electronics Industry Association, 3G phone sales are booming. More than 5m 3G phones were sold (up 58%) in March, and account now for about 90% of all mobile phone sales. It is a big move to ensure the 3G market taking...
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European broadband networks: the debate is not over
European broadband networks: the debate is not over I already have reported on the challenge launched by some European incumbents to launch new services on new broadband networks and avoid providing access to competition, at least for a while. DT, FT,...
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More than 2.6bn mobile subscribers by YE2006
Pyramid Research has published its 1Q2005 Mobile Demand and Mobile Data Forecasts for more than 90 countries in the world. Based on new (unexpected) strong growth, they have revised their overall projections for mobile subscriber growth for the 2006-2010...
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Happy World Telecommunications Day!
Happy World Telecommunications Day! May 17 officially is World Telecommunications Day, to commemorate the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on May 17, 1865. This year, the ITU Council decided to highlight the theme "Promoting...
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Healthcare: BST radiation at no risk ?
According to the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), “there is no adverse health risks linked to using mobile phones or living or working near mobile phone base stations, on the basis of the most recent proven scientific evidence...
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Clouds on the European telecom sector.
Many analysts are predicting that European incumbent service providers will have to face worsen conditions in the near-term. Already it was known that their fixed line business was shrinking, hardly offset by the boom in high-speed Internet services....
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China hit another record
China hit a record with 416m mobile subscribers at the end of April. The growth is impressive since 1987 when China installed the first mobile facilities. In 1997, there were 10m mobile subscribers, and in 2001 it had the largest number of mobile phone...
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European Super Regulator: it is in the air!
The very active EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding is launching the idea to seize regulatory control over countries' telecom sector. This idea implies that national regulators should give up powers to a new European central...
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European film on line charter
Important milestone for the film distribution sector reached in Cannes (France) during the Cannes Film Festival. Under the EU Commission support, 18 companies (including European and US telecom service providers and producers) signed what is called the...
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EU not satisfied with ICT competition
The EU Commission targets to push for more cross-border competition in European telecom sector, arguing its one-year request to governments to develop the usage of digital technologies has generated limited results. The two pillars of its strategy are...
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Microsoft launches Flexgo and Intel a $180 PC
In order to ease the purchase of a PC by low-income people in emerging countries, Microsoft duplicates the mobile phone pay-as-you-go model in the PC world. Pre-paid cards will be available in Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and China in coming months....
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Carriers' future
Ernst & Young unveiled a new report on “The Next Generation Gap”. Acknowledging the importance of NGN infrastructure in coming years, drew lessons from past strategies and emphasized on possible winning strategies. Carriers could be confronted with a...
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Italtel benefits from excellent results
Italtel reports a 21% revenue growth in 1Q06 to €101m and net loss of €13m (up 160%), few days before the beginning of its IPO in Milan Stock Exchange. Less than half of the company's stock is expected to be listed, valuing Italtel at about €1bn. Current...