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Market researches - 25/11/06
A few set of market information released this week: Strategy Analytics forecasts that there would be 500m mobile broadband subscribers by 2010, but that new alternative technologies (WiMAX, TDD, ..;) will only contribute just 6%. HSPA and ED-VO RevA....
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Market researches - 2/11/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, smartphone phone sales increased by 50% in 1H06, after tripling over the two previous years. Strategy Analysis minimizes the impact of announced municipal fiber networks in cities...
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Market Researches - 18/11/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, almost 20m WiMAX subscribers would be counted worldwide by the end of 2010 (from 220k in 2006). Most of those subscribers are in the APAC region. According to Dell'Oro, worldwide...
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Market researches - 15/11/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Nokia/ London School of Economics, mobile TV should be customized and interactive and offer user-generated content. Its success should also be dependent upon the reception of big brands...
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Market researches - 09/11/09
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the IP PBX market in China is entering a fast-growth phase, with revenues growing to $480m in 2010 from currently $164m. Consequently, traditional PBX revenues in China will decline...
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Market researches - 02/11/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Merrill Lynch, handset sales forecasts should be upgraded for 2006 and 2007. In 2006, ML increased its forecast to 970m, up 6%, that could constitute the peak year for the global market....
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Market researches - 29/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to TNS, 16% of US mobile users have purchased 3G-enabled handsets, and only 1.6% are using the 3G features. It seems the ratio is almost valid elsewhere with worldwide figures of 20% 3G handsets...
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Market researches - 24/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Pyramid Research, carriers are lowering their capex thanks to increasingly inexpensive equipment. It said telecom equipment costs have dropped by nearly 20% annually over the past 4-5 years....
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Market researches - 19/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, the APAC mobile music market would almost triple in four years to reach $9bn by 2010. According to GfK, Samsung is the leader in the French mobile phone market (34%), followed by...
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Market researches - 13/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Idate, fiber-based broadband accesses could be up to 42m worldwide by 2010, of which 20.5m in Japan, 8m in the US, Europe with 7m and South Korea with 6.3m. In Europe, Germany with 2.9m...
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Market researches - 07/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: iSupply predicts that cell phone handset display shipments would reach 1.2bn units (+17%) in 2006. FTTH Council and TIA said that more than 6m households are passed in North America, and 1m are subscribers...
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Market researches - 05/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, mobile handset sales growth rate should slow in coming years. If growth should be 16% this year, it should slow to less than 10% in 2007. The CAGR should be around 7.5% during the...
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Market researches - 01/10/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Heavy Reading, worldwide sales of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing (ROADM) gear will reach $250m in 2006 and couldl grow to $920m in 2011 with a CAGR of almost 30%. Main driver...
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Ethernet-based transport to supplant Sonet/SDH?
Ethernet-based transport to supplant Sonet/SDH? According to a new survey from Heavy reading, 60% of operators polled indicated they had already begun moving from Sonet/SDH to Ethernet, or would begin to do so in 2006. The move will create a new class...
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Siemens' plans in IPT
Siemens' plans in IPT Alcatel/ Microsoft dominating the IPTV market is a fact, but very few operators believe the game is over. Some operator' s reactions let think that the door is still open in the future for new opportunities (except perhaps for SBC...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 13/11/05
Calix announced that it will acquire Optical Solutions, an industry leader in gigabit passive optical network (GPON). Both are respectively leading the broadband loop carrier (BLC) shipments and FTTP GPON deployments. Nortel launched an end-to-end IPTV...
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China subscriber base: 390m+
China subscriber base: 390m+ China has the largest number of mobile phone subscribers in the world. With a record 388m mobile subscribers at the end of November, China could close 2005 with about 393m mobile users. For several years, China has added between...
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Deception on Lucent' financial results
Deception on Lucent' financial results For a lot of people, Lucent was doing better and better, and its CEO was proud to announce its second-in- row year of earnings after the telecom bubble. Latest fiscal results (fiscal year ended in Sept.05) reported...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 3/11/05
VocalTec will be taken over by Tdsoft, Cisco, as a shareholder in Tdsoft, will own 36% of the new company, Siemens announced that its SURPASS(R) Home Entertainment portfolio of broadcast server provider solutions has made IPTV a reality for more than...
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Quaero, European search engine
Quaero, European search engine Quaero (“search” in Latin) is the new multimedia European search engine to be launch in coming months. The project was announced in April.05'; goals and Board members will be announced in Jan.06'; and commitment made by...
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India telecom market
India: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has unveiled new figures on telecom teledensity in the country. With about 120m telephone users – 48.5m fixed and 71.5m mobile – teledensity is yet very low at about 11%-12%. In urban areas, teledensity...
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China' s telecom market future
China' s telecom market future According to CCID Consulting, China' s telecom future would follow the ten following trends: - Mobile call business and VoIP business will overtake fixed call business; - Irregularities of SPs will become more serious; -...
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Market researches - 22/12/05
- According to In-Stat, location-based services (LBS) may finally realize its potential in the APAC region in the upcoming five years. The market is expected to reach $772m by 2010, from $353m in 2004. - According to Forrester Research, 25% of UK users...
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Market researches - 17/12/05
The IP Centrex/Hosted PBX market is poised for explosive growth over the next 4 years, with revenues reaching approximately $1.3bn by 2009, according to In-Stat. The SME market is driving demand. According to Analysys, the Chinese VOIP market is seen...
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IPTV vs Satellite TV
IPTV vs Satellite TV Let us take the example of France: On one side ISPs and telcos, such as Trance Telecom, Free, Neuf Cegetel, have launched IPTV services starting from end 2004 and respectively gained up to now some 180k, 159k, and 50k IPTV subscribers....