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Nokia outlines strategy and future
Nokia outlines strategy and future Always interesting to learn from major vendors what they think of the future and how they adapt their own strategy. At the annual Nokia Capital Market Days, Nokia presented its market expectations and set out its targets...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 10/12/05
Zhone Technologies launches its new VDSL2 customer premise equipment and VDSL2 line card for its Multi-Access Line Concentrator. Linksys (Cisco) and Telabria can now offer VoIP Services Over WiMAX. Alcatel has signed an agreement with South Korean telecom...
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The optical market
The optical market According to Infonetics, the optical market had a flat third quarter at $2.7bn, but could be up 16% for the year. Furthermore, the market will hold steady over the next 12 months and then pick up, with annual revenue growing to $11.6bn...
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Orange, SFR and Bouygues
Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom (three main mobile operators in France) have been fined €534m for market collusion between 1997 and 2003. They have exchange confidential and strategic information, maintain high prices and fixed market shares among themselves....
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Europe-wide payment system
Europe-wide payment system To smooth national specificities in European electronic payment systems, the European Commission has recommended setting up by 2010 of a single Europe-wide payment system. The cost of multiple payment systems is assessed to...
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ECTA report on current European telecom regulation
ECTA report on current European telecom regulation The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) analyzed how competitive and open to new entrants various markets are. They found that prices are still too high and former state-owned monopolies...
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How to get mobile TV ?
How to get mobile TV ? Relaying TV - and VOD services - to a cellular handset involves a lot more than building an analogue or digital TV tuning system into the mobile, as TV signals do not propagate well to TVs on the move. Two main technologies are...
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China phone sales
China phone sales China's mobile phone market reached 61m units in the first nine months and 21m units in 3Q05. It is expected that domestic annual phone sales would reach 88m units this year. The market witnessed strong demand for low-end phones (accounting...
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Not yet for this year?
Not yet for this year? Xmas is almost there and 3G phones were expected to be the must-have Christmas gifts. Alas! the new phones are not quite good or cheap enough to compete with 2G/2,5G handsets. Several actors in the market estimate that the migration...
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GSM dominance
GSM dominance About 80% of mobile subscribers (or 1.6bn people) are using GSM-based services. In 12 months, GSM added 381m new customers, more than the entire customer base of any other mobile digital technology. More than 670 mobile service providers...
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UN bless ICANN' s Internet management
UN bless ICANN' s Internet management In World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) pre-meetings, negotiators finally agreed on a compromise: ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will continue to run the Internet network and...
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Microsoft' strategy
Microsoft' strategy Microsoft is trying to turn every PC into a potential TV. The idea was in the air, but Microsoft teamed with Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs), to connect PCs directly to cable feed, bypassing the cable modem and the IP infrastructure....
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Open Invention Network (OIN)
IBM, Sony, Philips, Red Hat and Novell have formed Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization to share Linux patents without royalties. The move is aimed to solve ownership rights problems encountered by distributors (represented by Red Hat and Novell)...
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Consumers want more mobile in service packages
Consumers want more mobile in service packages According to In-Stat, telcos are not providing mobile in their service packages as frequently as customers would like. Only 18% of current bundle subscribers have mobility, even if 32% want to include mobility...
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The VoWLAN marketplace is warming
The VoWLAN marketplace is warming Pyramid Research expects Europe to take the lead in VoWLAN implementation, because wireline competitive operators need to offer new services, access the customer by new ways, and current local loop unbundling is a favorable...
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Global vendor strategies - 19/11/05
Georges Soros has increased its stake in Motorola to 633k shares (from 55k) and in Microsoft (+130%) to 1.85m shares. Nokia is buying Intellisync, a leader in platform-independent wireless messaging and applications for mobile devices, for €360m. Nokia...
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Microsoft new strategy ?
Microsoft new strategy ? The Microsoft CTO is Ray Ozzie, and wrote to Microsoft managers some weeks ago about Microsoft (late) position vis à vis Google, Skype and RIM. It is interesting to learn a song we were not used to from dominant Microsoft. This...
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Real or fiction?
Real or fiction? Concentration could go a step further in the US with a possible SBC/ Bellsouth merger. It is the last rumor validated by some telecom and financial analysts. And certainly the deal makes sense for both companies that share Cingular Wireless....
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Linux OS in mobile phone
Linux OS in mobile phone A consortium of telecommunications and technology companies have established a trade body dedicated to driving the adoption of the Linux operating system in Mobile phones, offering an alternative to established Microsoft Windows...
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Higher, always higher speed
Higher, always higher speed It is one of the basic trend currently in transmission. Most of the operator' s marketing ads for their broadband services is based on speed. After ADSL that started with 512kbit/s few years ago, then currently transmitting...
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Deutsche Telecom plans
DT plan DT unveiled what it has in mind for the next two years. It plans to ramp up its spending in 2006 by €1.2bn and rollout its fiber-to-the-curb access network. DT expects to deliver 1 million triple-play customers by the end of 2006, increase its...
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Telecom Italia plans
TI plan Telecom Italia announced also plans for the future. Broadband, 3G and HSDPA, UMA and cellular coverage are the main items of the new plan, involving about €10bn investments in "innovation and the development of new technologies” over the next...
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Siemens results
Siemens reported 3Q05 sales grew 13% to €22,1bn, with EBIT down 37% to €926m and net profit slipping 33% to €497 (without discontinued operations). Its Communications and SBS units continue to drag down the overall performance. SBS posted a €427m operating...
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Cisco results
Cisco posts FY06-1Q net income of $1,3bn (down 7%), on revenues of $6,5bn (up 10%). The results are below expectations, reflecting slow growth in Europe, but a good surprise in the US (+15%). Gross margin topped at 67%, but operating expenses grew 25%...
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WiMAX is taking off
WiMAX is taking off, according to Intel. 13 carriers around the world are currently deploying fixed WiMAX networks based on its technologies: Altitude Telecom (France), Axtel (Mexico), BEC Telecom, S.A. (Dominican Republic), Dedicado (Uruguay), Globe/Innove...