Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

ABI Research found that full track music downloads to mobile phones grew 1900% in 2005 for a revenue of $251m. This figure should grow to $9.3bn by 2011. Growth should be driven by the availability of a broadband network, devices with enough memory (8...

Contrasting with similar European researches (reported in Telcoflash in previous issues), US consumers expressed a limited interest in mobile video services. Only 2% of U.S. users currently subscribe to a wireless video service, and 41% could be interested...

ROA Group forecasts that the number of mobile subscribers in China could reach about 595m in 2009, with a CAGR of 9.7% . Penetration should be about 44%. GSM technology will continue to grow until 2008 to 380m users, then decline. CDMA users would account...

The latest Point Topic report (4Q05) is published. The worldwide total of broadband lines grew to 209.3m lines during the fourth quarter of 2005, an increase of 37%. What can be noticed is a relative stability in quarterly growth at about 8%. DSL technology...

According to a new report from Exane BNP Paribas and Arthur D little, FMC should shake up the European telecom market in coming years. Traditional borders between fixed and mobile networks are blurring. Bundled and quadruple-play services are flourishing;...

China 3G Speculation and rumors flourish on China 3G licensing granting process. Every sentence from Chinese governmental personnel or VIPs is analyzed and interpreted. The latest in date is Deng Shoupeng, a director of the China Federation of Information...

Few weeks ago, I reported some concerns on the BPL market taking off rapidly, but also noticed some hope with major partners (Google and IBM) supporting the project. An announcement last week brings another positive view. BPL will be deployed in an area...

It is an healthy market, worth about $28bn, and with about 20 GEO satellites to be launched each year. That means that 175 GEO satellites will be launched between now and 2015. At the end of the period, the US would continue to lead the market with about...

According to 3G Americas, 81% of all mobile users worldwide are using GSM technology, be it GSM or GPRS, or EDGE or UMTS or HSDPA. That brings the number of GSM users to about 1.75bn, up circa 400m in past twelve months. It is a big increase from the...

According to a recent survey by Harris Interactive in the USA, it seems easy: less than 3% of customers having a family plan leave the service. So mobile operators have early identified that such plans build subscriber loyalty and reduce churn. Success...