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WiFi Phones: limited interest ?
Research & Markets reports results of a survey on consumer response to the use of WiFi-only phone. Respondents most often answered no or maybe, due to limited range of use, cost of WiFi phones and poor quality of service. Is it really significant? Not...
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The Top 10 APAC MNOs
First the list by customer base: 1- China Mobile with 300m mobile subscribers; 2- China Unicom with 142m users; 3-DoCoMo with 52m; 4-Telkomsel with 36m; 5-Bharti with 32m; 6-Reliance with 30m; 7-KDDI with 25.5m; 8-BSNL with 23.6m; 9-Hutchison with 23m;...
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PC 1Q07 overview
According to Gartner, almost 63m PCs (+9%) were shipped in 1Q07. HO is in pole position with 11m units shipped (+29%), ahead of Dell with 8.6m (-8%), then Acer with 4.3m units (+46%) and Lenovo with 3.9m (+16%). Toshiba is fifth with 2.5m units shipped...
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Top 5 NA operators
NA is certainly the only region in the world where GSM is not the dominant technology. With about 252m mobile users at the end of 2006, NA is the least mobile-equiped region, overtaken by MEA (Middle East +Africa), CALA, CEI, EU and APAC. The home-grown...
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FMC: two approaches, diverse results
FMC is announced as a big market; but execution remains essential. Take the BT example. BT has just 40k subscribers to its BT Fusion FMC offer after 18 months of operation. It is rather disappointing. The system is a dualmode GSM/ Bluetooth service, based...
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AT&T 1Q07 results
AT&T reported strong 1Q07 results. Revenues rose to $29bn, from $15.7bn a year ago (non proforma), but includes BellSouth and its 40% stake in Cingular from now. Net income amounted to $2.8bn, up 100% (non proforma). The operating income margin grew to...
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Business as usual
According to agency Standard & Poor's, European telcos continue to suffer in domestic fixed-line operations. Driven by mobile substitution and fierce competition, the key incumbent fixed-line revenues decline by about 5% in 2006. As broadband services...
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Mobile wallet project
The mobile industry has finally united to develop a plan to increase the functionality and features of mobile phones. Consumers would be able to use their mobile phones as a wallet, a ticket or a payment device at point of sale, by just entering a PIN...
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Ericsson reports 1Q07 numbers
Ericsson delivered pretty good results for the 1Q07 quarter. Revenues were up 8% to €4.8bn, operating expenses grew only 3%, and net income jumped 27% to €663m. Revenue split is as follows: Networks: €3.3bn (17% of operating margin); Professional services...
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France Telecom 1Q07 results
France Telecom said its 1Q07 revenues were €12.8bn, up 1.8%. Results are slightly better than expected by analysts. Gross margin grew 2 points to 36%+ (or €4.7bn), fixed-line revenues are stable for the first time in several quarters, and execution is...
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Naked DSL
Naked DSL : it is the term used to describe the situation in which DSL service is provided by a service provider to customers who receive no voice service from this operator, but from another one or no voice service at all: a situation relatively frequent...
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Wireless mesh networking
Wireless mesh networking : an old idea that is finally emerging. Formerly developed for military applications, wireless mesh networking found its way when using 802.11 standard and some clever routing algorithms. Key demand is emerging for infrastructure...
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3GPP release 6 specs finalized
Specifications for 3GPP Release 6 are finalized. 3GPP Release 6 includes numerous new features, such as High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) to complement HSDPA, the second phase of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), inter-working with Wireless Local Area...
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Mobile telecom overview in Pakistan
Pakistan : Have a population of 150 million and a low income of $ 500 GDP per capita. Mobile penetration is just 4.5%, but mobile operators are making huge efforts in telecommunications investments. They will invest $1bn in 2005 and additional $4bn in...
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Mobile handset sales
According to Forward Concepts, older-technology phone sales (TDMA, PDC, but also CdmaOne and GSM) will decline, while sales of newer technologies like EDGE, W-CDMA and EV-DO are on the rise. GSM handset sales could drop 23% this year, while W-CDMA handset...
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Market research 1 - N60
ð According to Gartner, all smartphones would have a built-in wireless email application by the end of 2008. ð Forrester found that 2/3 of US households have at least one mobile phone. ð According to Strategy Analytics, 257m camera phones (38% of total...
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Market research 2 - N60
ð According to Insight Research, the global telecom software for operations support systems ( OSS ) would exceed $30bn in 2005. ð According to In-Stat, the rise in 3G deployments is a sign of its growing acceptance. 3G infrastructure is shipping, 3G licenses...
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Satellite cell phones
Satellite cell phones : About adecade ago, some companies were proud to announce their projects to replaceconventional mobile phones with handsets transmitting calls off satellitesorbiting Earth. They have names, such as Iridium, Teledesic, and few others.They...
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CDMA 450
CDMA 450 : The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has announced a deal with the International 450 Association (IA 450) to create opportunities for CDMA2000 technologies at 450 MHz. They will work on technology, regulatory and marketing activities. Two main...
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Convergent billing
Convergent Billing : Analysys is publishing a new report on Convergent Billing in Europe . They predict capex on fixed-mobile convergent billing systems (excluding spend on integration services, hardware and in-house effort) would increase by 36% over...
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Telecom in India
Telecom equipment costs in India : the Telecom Equipment Manufacturers' Association of India (TEMA) said that competition is drawing prices down. According to TEMA, India s requirement could reach as high as $32bn by 2007. With India seen as the second...
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Market research
ð According to IDC, 30m U.S. mobile subscribers would be consuming commercial video/TV content and services on their handsets by 2009. Related ARPU could be up to $10. ð IDC forecasts that the number of voice over broadband connections (on IP and non-IP...
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Tanzania- Africa
Tanzania : Mobile penetration could reach 10% (or 3m users) by the end of the year, and could reach 15% (or 5m users) by 2010. Current situation is 2.5m subscribers. Mobile is far ahead of fixed line penetration that can only count 150,000 land line holders....
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Europe: telecom overview
Europe: according to Infonetics Research, European telecom carrier capex rose 6% in 2004 to 40.6bn and is expected to grow 9% this year to 44bn. Revenues were only up 2% to 306bn, and are expected to grow 3% in 2005. Mobile revenues grew 8% in 2004, and...
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Market researches 2
ð According to Gartner, European IT services would grow 3.5% in 2005 to 163bn, and could reach $185bn by 2008. Business process outsourcing could grow at 6.6%, with outsourcing continuing to outperform with a 4.6% growth. UK would grow at 5.6%, Germany...