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Secure WiFi
Secure WiFi: In spite of ad-hoc protocols, VPN tunnels or AAA servers used to secure applications, WiFi is not perceived as a secure transmission technology. In its recent Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel has presented an interesting solution...
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Vlog
Vlog: Vlogging is the latest fashion and the next big Internet thing. After text (blog) and audio files (podcast) posting, Vlogging allows you to add video dimension and take advantage of low-cost digital camera, high-speed and image processing software....
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Vendor consolidation in sight: Alcatel- Lucent
Vendor consolidation in sight: Alcatel- Lucent It is the big announcement of the week. Alcatel and Lucent are used to talk merger (at least from 2001), but this time it seems serious. First, both companies confirmed talks, and both companies are in better...
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Microsoft-Yahoo? Why not?
Microsoft is still again rumored to be interested buying Yahoo for about $50bn. The main drivers of the deal would be the booming web advertising market, expected growth in the online applications market, the near-to-come frontal struggle with telcos...
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Microsoft motivated on voice and video
Microsoft motivated on voice and video Microsoft outlined its vision of extended IP communications capabilities, and specially by adding VOIP across Windows Live services on a worldwide basis. Demand is there and already more than 20m people are using...
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2006 NA telecom capex
Good news: NA telecom spending grew 8% to almost $69bn in 2006, according to Infonetics, and would continue to grow to $77bn by 2010. Simultaneously, Capex-to-revenue ratios are expected to remain stable at around 17% through 2008 due to a number of mid-term...
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Top stories (3) N54
Global handset market in 2004 : Gartner provided its worldwide mobile phone market figures. 674m units were sold and shipped in 2004, a 30% growth on 2003. Nokia secured a 33% market share, followed by Motorola with unexpected 16.3% and Samsung with 12.2%....
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India: update
India is one of the world's fastest-growing mobile telecom markets, with currently some 150m users. About 5.5m new subscribers were added on average each month in 2007, and last month growth was of 6.1m. Caution, however, as since March 06, WLL (wireless...
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Global vendor strategies - 26/04/06
Nokia is dealing with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in its Research Center Cambridge (USA) to develop high-impact research on "state-of-the-art" communications technologies. IBM and Panasonic/Matsushita are working on next generation...
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Medical device
Medical device Adding a special medical software into a camera cellphone could transform the handset into an infra-red scanner to achieve do-it-yourself medical test. The equipped handset could provide with medical body images with colored zones according...
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Broadband connections 12/05
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...
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Market Corner (2) - 20/08/08
A few set of market information released this week: France: the French telecom services market reached €10.6bn (+4%) in 1Q08; the number of phone subscriptions increasing to 40m, of which almost 12m for VOIP (+30%); 16.3m broadband connections, of which...
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Market Corner (1) - 07/07/08
A few set of market information released this week: Microsoft plans to offer its Office suite via annual subscription and monthly fee. A first for the software giant. India: Gartner forecasts that the Indian mobile telecom market would grow with a CAGR...
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Financial Performance - 08/09/08
Orascom Telecom Holding reports 1H08 net profit down proforma 4% to $276m, on revenues up 19% to $2.7bn. Ciena reports $253m in FY3Q08 revenues, up 24%, and 9-mo revenues of $723m (+28%). FY3Q08 net income was $12m, down 58%, while 9-mo net income was...
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Awards - 22/03/08
Ericsson has been selected by Paraguay-based Personal for a countrywide 3G/HSPA network, and will provide upgrades to Wind Hellas' GSM/WCDMA network in Greece. HTC will provide CDMA handsets to Reliance (India). Motorola announces it has won $165m order...
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Mobile operators strategies - 10/02/08
Orange (France) sold 20,000 iPhones in January, or 90,000 units in total since the launch. Sales are slowing (Xmas effect for sure), but Orange continues to gain new customers (50% of iPhone buyers). Orange targets 400k to 500k units sold in 2008. ATT...
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Subscriber figures 2 - 03/02/08
Verizon Wireless added 6.7m mobile customers in 2007 (+2m in 4Q07), to bring its subscriber base to 65.7m at the end of the year. Verizon wireline' s total base of phone lines decreased over 8% to 41.4m. Broadband connections stood at 8.2m as of Dec....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 09/03/08
Cisco unveiled its new middle range router, ASR 1000 or Aggregation Service Router, equipped with a new ASIC processor and with a non-stop communication feature. The development cost $250m and the team was big of over 100 engineers. ALU announced extension...
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And after 2011?
According to OCDE experts, all available internet addresses will be used by 2011 (with nearly 85% in use today). That means that no more internet user could be added by that time. But a solution exists, called IPv6, which provides an almost unlimited...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 03/02/08
Cisco introduced a new data center-oriented switching platform, called Nexus 7000, able to reach 15 Tbit/s in switching density and and 512 10-Gbit/s Ethernet ports per system. 3Com shareholders will vote on a $2.2bn buyout by a consortium including Huawei....
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Fixed contracts - 03/02/08
Motorola has signed a large WiMAX order with Wateen Telecom in Pakistan. ALU will provide its DSL technology to Vodafone Spain. Packet One Networks or P1 (Malaysia) has selected ALU to deploy its WiMAX network in the country. It has received an $125m...
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Global operator strategies - 04/11/07
Covad Comms (US) has been bought out by private equity investor Platinum Equity. Orascom Telecom has sold 3% of Hutchison Telecom (HTIL), bringing its stake back to just over 16%. Batelco (Bahrain) plans spending $4bn in foreign acquisitions. China Mobile...
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Fixed orders - 16/09/07
NSN will led a consortium for rolling-out broadband internet technology in Thalys trains (Paris- Brussels- Amsterdam- Koln). ALU has been selected by Etisalat for IP network transformation, and is involved in SingTel’ s mio TV services. It has successfully...
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Fixed operator strategies - 24/12/07
O2 plans to launch IPTV trial in the UK, while Orange delays its UK IPTV launch. NeckarCom (Germany) has unveiled its VOIP service over a WiMAX network. The G9 consortium (led by Optus/ SingTel) in Australia is invited to revise its proposal for a national...
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Fixed contracts - 25/11/07
Huawei will build an optic fiber network across Malawi for Malawi Telecom (MTL). NSN becomes the major DSLAM supplier for Hunan Telecom (China). ALU provides an IP telephony infrastructure for the Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa, a hospitality property...