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Fixed vendor strategies - 18/02/06
Alcatel unveiled its Evolium mobile WiMAX base station to be ready for commercial deployment by mid-2006. Tellabs introduced a new MSPP platform, the world's smallest fully featured MSPP. Motorola and Cleartone announced a long-term development and supply...
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US Mobile Video Services
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...
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600m mobile users in China in 2009
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...
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China 3G
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...
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World Mobile Subscriber Base
There are now more than 2.2bn mobile subscribers in the world, and it is expected that this number would grow to 3bn by 2010. GSM currently accounts for about 1.8bn and CDMA for about 0.4bn users. There are currently 860 networks in 220 countries delivering...
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Market researches - 01/04/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, IT spending should grow by a little bit more than 6% in 2006 to $1063bn. Software sales should grow by 7% , while hardware sales should grow at a lower pace. APAC should grow at 9%,...
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Market researches - 28/9/05
According to In-Stat, Bluetooth continues its own way doubling again Bluetooth-enabled product shipments. 2005 shipments are forecast to be 316m units, and could rise to 866m units by 2009. But competition is growing from USB and Wi-Fi, and needs constant...
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Market researches - 24/9/05
According to eMarketer, the NA mobile market is expected to surpass 240m subscribers by 2009, though year-over-year growth is forecast to slow. According to the Radicati Group, 74% of all corporate telephony lines will be IP lines in 2009. Worldwide revenue...
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Mobile TV and video services
Mobile TV and video services could overwhelm 3G networks in the next two years, according to Sound Partners. According to their model, 40% of of 3G users taking up mobile TV and video services and consuming as low as 8 minutes of video per day, could...
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Market researches - 21/9/05
According to NanoMarkets, 2006 would be the year for mobile fuel cells for mobile devices. It forecasts that the market could be worth $1.6bn in 2010 and $2.7bn in 2012. Mobile music downloads is to reach $1.8bn in Europe by 2010, according to research...
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Market researches - 15/9/05
According to In-Stat, APAC (Asia- Pacific) could become the largest mobile market in revenues terms. By 2009, APAC mobile telecom revenues could reach over $260bn, from $180m in 2004. The Yankee Group has found that in the US, wireless subscribers and...
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LATAM mobile survey
LATAM mobile survey: according to 3GSM Americas, the LATAM region customer base grew to 98m in August 05, or a 43% market share, up 4 points. CDMA users account for 25% market share, stable. GSM is growing three times faster than CDMA, gaining most of...
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Market researches - 10/9/05
According to Gartner, Japanese domestic sales of mobile phone handsets are expected to reach a record of 49m units in 2006 and then begin declining. Forward Concepts predicts that the WiMAX and pre-WiMAX equipment market, including 802.16d and 802.16e,...
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Market researches - 8/9/05
Parks Associates s predicting that the market for IPTV will reach 21.7m subscribers in 2009. According to the Association for Promotion of Satellite Broadcasting in Japan, the number of digital satellite broadcasting subscribers top 10m at the end of...
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Market researches - 7/9/05
Mobile Research Group (Russia) has cut by 10% its forecast for mobile handset sales in Russia this year to 31.5m units. The reason is police's fight against illegal importation and handset increased prices. In-Stat forecasts solid growth for Telco TV...
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Market researches - 3/9/05
Dittberner named Tekelec as leader in worldwide media gateway voice over packet (VoP) shipments, with nearly 1.4m switching ports during the quarter, or 33% market share. Enterprises around the world are going IP according to Infonetics. IP systems account...
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EDGE
EDGE : this mobile technology is still growing, with according to GSA, more than 96 GSM/EDGE networks operated in 60 countries. Last year, there were only 32 EDGE networks in the world. 38 networks are operated in Europe, 17 in Asia, 32 in the Americas...
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CMTS market
CMTS market: Worldwide CMTS revenue rose 25% to $182m in 2Q05, according to Infonetics. The growth is mainly due to gains posted by Cisco and Motorola. Infonetics expects demand will continue for at least the next few years, when annual CMTS revenue will...
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WLAN market
WLAN market: According to Infonetics, the overall WLAN equipment market is holding steady, with worldwide revenue dipping 1% to $733 in 2Q05, while annual revenue is expected to increase to $4.1bn in 2008. The worldwide wireless LAN switch ports jumped...
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Market researches 2 - 27/8/05
ð The optical component market should grow to $ 2.4 bn by 2009, from current $ 1.5bn, according to Research and Markets. ð According to Infonetics Research, worldwide NG voice equipment revenue rose 18% to $614m in 2Q05, while annual revenues should grow...
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Market researches - 27/8/05
ð Computer Industry Almanac published the results of their worldwide PC survey. The number of PC installed at the end of 2004 was 820m, of which 224m in the US, 69m in Japan, 53m in China, 46m in Germany, 36m in the UK and 30m in France. So top 6 countries...
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Broadband over Powerline
Broadband over Powerline (BPL): the technology, we already described in this newsletter, receives some strong endorsements from heavyweights such as Intel, Motorola and Cisco. All three signed on as new sponsor members of the "HomePlug Powerline Alliance,"...
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Mobile Phone Shipments
Mobile Phone Shipments : What characterized the worldwide mobile phone market in 2Q05 were impressive shipments of entry-level mobile phones to both developing and mature markets. IDC found that almost 189m units were shipped in the quarter (+16% yoy),...
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FCC deregulates telco DSL broadband
FCC deregulates telco DSL broadband : The Federal Communications Commission has deregulated telco-provided DSL and other broadband services extending the current rule applied to cablecos in the US. The action essentially reclassifies the telco offerings...
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Football/ Soccer services
Football/ Soccer services : Mobile entertainment seems the next smart and fashionable thing nowadays. Football is one of the most demanded applications available. 3 UK, a pioneer in the domain, announces 270,000 registrations for those services, including...