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Customer care!!
Quality, quality !! According to a survey of UK magazine, Which?, about 11% of the 18m handsets sold last year in the UK could have been faulty. In the survey, differences between suppliers clearly appear: Nokia and Samsung were the most reliable (but...
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Market researches 26/8/05
A few set of market information recently released: ð Push to Talk services are currently provided by 33 networks, of which 15 in Europe, 11 in Asia and 5 in Americas and 2 in Middle East. ð According to IDC, WiMAX equipment is still a small market with...
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Market Researches - 14/7/5
Service provider capex spending totaled $207bn in 2004, according to In-Stat, and will continue to grow moderately over the next five years to reach $78bn in 2009. According to Forrester, enterprise telecom capex should rise 3.4% this year. VOIP, IT security,...
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Iran telecom policy - 14/7/5
Iran has launched a $700m national fiber-optic network with connection with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan and UAE. It will also link Iran to Pakistan, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Turkey in the future. The ambition is to become a regional communication...
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Market researches - 10/07/05
ð China has shipped some 60m handsets in 1Q05, down 6.5%, according to Research and Markets. ð The market for macro cellular base stations will increase sharply from 1.8m in 2004 to 3.5m in 2009, reports In-Stat. ð The number of worldwide cellular subscribers...
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China's telecom industry restructuring
China : The plan for a restructuring of China 's telecom industry has been finalized but not yet submitted to the State Council, so the formal agreement could take some additional months. It is clear (and likely) that China does not intend to grant 3G...
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WiMAX licenses in France
France : Up to now, only one operator (Altitude Telecom) has been granted a broadband wireless license. The French regulator (Arcep) is proposing to grant two WiMAX licenses by region in order to connect people in rural zones where ADSL is not deployed...
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Market researches - 2/7/05
ð China has developed and tested 40Gb/sSDH fiber-optic communications equipment and systems. Testing results have met or exceeded requirements. ð According to Research & Markets, 70m broadband households are predicted in the US by 2008. ð The WiMAX Global...
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Market researches - 07/09/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to CCID, 70% of the Chine cellular handset market is captured by foreign brands. According to UN, world has 4bn lines, of which 1.3bn fixed lines and 2.7bn mobile lines. Over 1 bn people in...
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Market Researches - 18/08/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to XiTi Monitor, Firefox reached a 28% market share in Europe, while Internet Explorer is down below 67% market share, followed by Opera with 3.5% share. According to Juniper Research, mobile...
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Market Researches - 10/08/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the Bluetooth market had another successful year in 2006 that could continue in 2007 (+34%). However, market growth for Bluetooth products is beginning to slow. According to ABI...
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Market researches - 06/08/07
A few set of market information released this week: EU will name and shame mobile operators who fail to adopt the new mobile roaming caps by the end of July. According to In-Stat, Digital Rights Management (DRM) is not dead, and will grow as digital content...
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Market researches - 28/08/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to SNL Kagan, US mobile penetration would be 84% by the end of the year, and is projected to surge over 100% by 2013. According to 3G Americas, Uruguay has a potential of 250k 3G users within...
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Market Researches - 01/09/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the Wi-Fi mesh networking shipments would grow by 90% in 2007 after having doubled in 2006. Strong growth will continue for the next several years, but with growth rates rapidly...
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Market Researches - 08/07/07
A few set of market information released this week According to the Spanish telecom regulator, the Spanish telecom sector has generated from end-users €35.1bn in revenues in 2006, up almost 6%, or about twice the European average growth rate. Columbia'...
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Market researches - 29/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: iSuppli predicts that touch-screen technology will experience healthy growth in the coming years. Top 8 touch-screen technologies overall revenues are expected to rise from $2.4bn this year to $4.4bn...
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Market Researches - 15/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: xpected to be 4.5m at the end of the year. France accounts for almost 1m. CIBC predicts that Samsung could overtake Motorola in mobile phone market share in 2Q07. Europe adds biometric and picture info...
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Market Researches - 15/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: xpected to be 4.5m at the end of the year. France accounts for almost 1m. CIBC predicts that Samsung could overtake Motorola in mobile phone market share in 2Q07. Europe adds biometric and picture info...
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Market researches - 12/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, China would have some 52m TD-SCDMA subscribers by 2011. Pioneer Consulting found that wireless backhaul is more cost-effective compared to wireline solutions for a 3G network scenario....
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Market researches - 10/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to ComScore, Europeans are using Internet 24 hours per month on average. In-Stat forecasts that there would be 42m mapping and navigation mobile phone subscribers worldwide by 2012. Nokia believes...
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Market researches - 06/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to in-Stat, portable connectivity applications are driving the global Wi-Fi chipset market. Dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handsets segment is expected to reach 20% of the total chipset market in...
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Market researches - 02/06/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Oliver Wyman, VOD has strong perspectives. VOD would generate €500m revenues in 2012 (from current $56m). This is not the conclusion of a Forrester study saying that free VOD would be generalized....
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Market Researches - 30/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to GFK, the French mobile handset market reveals trends for 2007: slim, flashy colors (pink, white, ..), co-branded with a fashion brand, multimedia features (music, mp3, video, high storage,..),...
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Market Researches - 25/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Ovum-RHK, mobile revenues in APAC, but excluding China, would grow at a CAGR of 2-3% to reach $167bn by 2012. Mobile capex would follow the same curve. But wireline revenues would lost $5bn...
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Market Researches - 23/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, 2006 worldwide Wi-Fi RFID tag shipments reached 135,000. AeroScout is the market leader. ABI Research predicts that 3G would capture 30% of the cellular machine-to-machine (M2M)...