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WiMAX future
WiMAX future According to Senza Fili Consulting, WiMAX will quickly dominate the fixed broadband wireless market, but its success in the mobile arena will be slower and more difficult to achieve. 802.16e standard (or WiMAX mobile) would account for about...
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France: broadband access
France: 95% of the French population has a broadband internet access, but 10,000 rural communities are still missing broadband access. Neither France Telecom nor alternative carriers are rushing to fill the gap, so communities are turning towards WiMAX....
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Market researches - 20/11/05
According to Ovum-RHK, the optical networking equipment sector showed in 3Q05 its largest year-over-year quarterly growth since 2002: +33% to $2,8bn. The overall optical networking market will grow 15% this year surpassing $10bn. Dell'Oro reports the...
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Check carefully your mobile subscription!
In Italy, a mobile user received a bill of $66,000 for the downloading of movies. He thought its subscription allowed unlimited downloading, and has used permitted bandwidth within few days with excess traffic billed at two cents per kilobyte (or $12,000...
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Fixed orders - 04/02/06
Ericsson won a contract with Batelco (Bahrain) to enhance its GSM network with a mobile softswitch. EADS won a TETRA network in Hungary for Pro-M. Lucent will provide Brazil Telecom with IMS elements for VoIP Services. Thomson/ Cirpak announced two new...
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Global vendor strategies - 28/1/06
HP has set up a new facility in Shanghai to help Asian telcos deploying next-generation, IMS-based services. Nokia plans to repurchase €6.5bn Nokia shares. Movaz announced it has closed $20m in venture funding, along with a line of credit for $12m. IBM...
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Global vendors strategies
HP announced it is in talks with Dutch PinkRoccade, a heavyweight in information services, for taking over the Getronics subsidiary. The move is quite surprising as Getronics only bought PinkRoccade in January. Nokia intends to sell out its Professional...
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Global vendor strategies - 03/09/06
Ericsson is to acquire Distocraft Oy's assets, a Finnish software company for mobile network performance management. It has completed the sale of its Microwave Systems division and the remaining parts of Saab Ericsson Space to Saab AB (Sweden). Nokia...
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CES announcements review
Apple has launched Apple TV, a hub to distribute files, movies, photos, TV, podcasts to multimedia devices within homes, and has also launched a new WiFi Exchange station, Airport Extreme Base station, supporting 802.11n. Philips has developed a wireless...
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Fixed orders - 25/04/07
Nortel will deploy WiMAX networks in western Illinois and eastern Iowa (both in USA) for MDPC. It also got the order for WiMAX deployments from Wind Telecom in the Dominican Republic. Huawei will build a countrywide IP NGN toll network for TransteleCom...
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World PC market
According to Gartner, more than 59m PC units (up almost 7%) were sold worldwide in 3Q06. HP has sold 9.6m units (+15%), Dell 9.5m units (+4%), Lenovo 4.4m units, Acer 3.5m units and Toshiba 2.6m units. Top five vendors account for just over 50% of the...
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NTT strategy
NTT strategy NTT is well-known for being at the forefront of technology race. Few months ago, NTT launched a huge initiative to deploy optical access systems. By the end of this year NTT' s FTTx subscribers will pass the 2.5m mark, with target of 30m...
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BSSR: broadband service switch router
BSSR: broadband service switch router This new acronym encompasses aggregation switching, edge routing, and B-RAS functions. All are positioned at the edge network and are needed to match with future growth of broadband data (IPTV, VOD,.VOIP, ..), and...
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Mixed Signals on IT Spending
As we can guess from first quarter results from service providers and vendors (two previous Telcoflash issues), there were no strong reasons for euphoria in the telecom market. IDC is just releasing its quarterly analysis on worldwide IT spending, and...
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Siemens FY 06 results
Siemens reported global solid results. In 3Q06, its FY 4Q, Siemens announced sales of almost €24bn, up 8%, orders up 4% to €22.6bn and group operating income from operations increased 35% to €640m. For its fiscal year, ended in Sept., Siemens reported...
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1Q07 NA Capex
A new report, from Ovum-RHK, said that NA mobile capex continued to go up by 2% in the quarter while NA wireline capex was down 9%. In the same period, NA wireline revenues declined 2% to $42.7bn and NA mobile revenues went up 11% to $35.4bn. What is...
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Market Researches - 28 May 2005
According to Dittberner, Italtel has gained the third position in the softswitch market with 14% market share, trailing only Nortel and Siemens. Italtel ranks first in EMEA markets with 35% market share. According to Ericsson, there will be 400m subscribers...
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Rumors on the vendor side
Rumors on the vendor side A Juniper deal rumor continues to fly. Ericsson is given as a possible contender as it is reselling Juniper gear since 2000 and a deal fits well with Ericsson' s portfolio, but in spite of many analysts saying the deal is unlikely...
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Top stories 17-01-05 N47
2005 will remain the year of the world's first cellphone-based mobile broadcasting, and it happened in Korea . Satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) claims to provide, through handheld devices, video, theater-quality audio and data. Another...
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Broadband growth
Broadband growth: Point Topic has released its new broadband statistics. The main trends are: the number of broadband lines worldwide is still growing, but growth is leveling off; the worldwide total of broadband lines grew to 176m in 2Q05, up 16%; leadership...
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3G customer growth
3G customer growth is improving after a sluggish start. It is a very important information brought up by the Yankee Group. Many parameters participate in driving growth: better handsets, increased handset offer, reduced usage charges and better network...
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Smartphone market overview
Canalys reports that the smartphone market continues to thrive, with some 40m units shipped in the third quarter. The smartphone segment now accounts for about 13% of the global handset market, and was recently shaked up by the introduction of the iPhone....
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Market Corner - 17/11/08
A few set of market information released this week: According to OVUM, APAC would double its mobile subscriber base to 2.9bn by 2013 (from 1.4bn in 2007). That means that the APAC region would house over 50% of the world mobile subscriptions by 2011....
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Subscriber stats - 17/11/08
Virgin Mobile USA reports 5.2m mobile subscribers (flat). SingTel had 217m (+10%) mobile users by the end of September, of which 77.5m in India, 60.5m in Indonesia, and 24m in the Philippines, and just 2.9m in Singapore. India added 8m GSM subscribers...
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Vendor Corner - 17/11/08
Microsoft unveiled its new Internet Explorer Mobile 6 browser. Analysts are giving Microsoft as the winner of Verizon' s mobile search deal. Amdocs is buying ChangingWorlds for $60m. ChangingWorlds is an expert in customer personalization. The move sent...