Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

3G WCDMA networks are going very high speed (80%, or 144 of the 182 commercial 3G networks): 23 networks are currently 3G+ at 7.2 Mbit/s; additional 52 are 3G+ at 3.6Mbit/s, and 69 at 1-2 Mbit/s. Other 45 HSDPA networks are in various phases of roll-out...

APAC GSM users reached 1bn mark at the end of June 07. Of this total, almost 66m were 3G WCDMA, on a total of 100m 3G regional users. As a technology, GSM accounts now for 84.5% of the regional mobile users, with all other technologies declining. PDC...

According to German terrestrial broadcaster RTL, VOD customers would not pay for content that they can reach for free on terrestrial TV. Furthermore, VOD users would not accept advertising on a VOD service. So, if confirmed (but RTL is an expert), the...

During its latest Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will impact most organizations. It is interesting to list these technologies, and you can refer to Gartner for further information: 1- Green IT, with...

At the end of 2Q07, APAC reached 1.2bn mobile subscribers, with three dominant countries: China with almost 500m, India with over 175m and Japan with about 110m. China and India also dominate the market in terms of new subscriptions: +75m in 1H07 and...

In early WiFi days, WiFi was thought for travelers and road warriors. As such, hotspots were mainly deployed in airports or hotels; access was given as a paid service, or included in another services (hotel i.e.). Another phase comes up when municipalities...

At a moment when EU and many other countries have decided to deploy DVB-H standard for mobile TV, a concert of speakers at the Broadband World Forum Europe event in Germany, voiced to support MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) as THE mobile...

A few set of market information released this week: According to the DSL Forum and Point Topic, IPTV customer base rose 179% to over 8.2m by June 2007, of which over 60% in Europe. APAC accounted for 27% and Americas for over 13%. According to Point Topic,...

SAP has made a €4.8bn bid on Business Object. Nokia finalized the acquisition of Enpocket, a mobile marketing firm. Google is said to be working on a free Linux-based mobile operating system. NEC, Opera and Freescale are jointly developing a new solution...

ALU claims it is leading the WiMAX market with 15 commercial contracts and 70 trial networks worldwide. Last week, it introduces a 7705 Service Aggregation router, an All-IP microwave transport platform, a 1850 transport service switch, and said it targets...