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RFID market
RFID market According to Gartner, RFID market will take off. RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology used to collect data, through a radio network between a reader and a label, in order to identify, locate and manage objects. With...
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Motorola will use TCL selling team.
Motorola will use TCL selling team. Both companies could hope positive outputs of the deal. Motorola has lost its pole position in the Chinese market to Nokia and is wanting to regain some market share points in the GSM market. The deal can also help...
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WiMAX
WiMAX WiMAX is just at the corner: fixed WiMAX and now mobile WiMAX. With standardization approved last week, vendors and semiconductor makers will have to work to introduce products as soon as possible. For years, WiMAX has been hyped to solve today’s...
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CMTS Market Up 15%
CMTS Market Up 15% According to Infonetics, the worldwide CMTS revenue jumped 15% to $209m in 3Q05. Strong growth is expected to continue for at least the next few years, with annual CMTS revenue reaching $1.1bn in 2008. Cisco maintained its leadership...
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Market researches - 10/12/05
According to a new study in France, ordered by Motorola and Consumer Analysis, 43% of French people want broadband everywhere (mobile). China: mobile phone sales increased 8% to 90m units, while export sales jumped 40% to 140m units, in Jan.-Oct. period....
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Market researches - 7/12/05
According to Infonetics Research, global revenue from network security appliance and software sales reached $1bn in 3Q05, up 1% qoq. Analysys International said China's overall mobile VAS market maintained a good growth momentum in Q3 2005 to reach about...
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Telecom in Brazil
Telecom in Brazil The Brazilian Statistics Institute (IBGE) has recently released research on household expenditure in Brazil. Here are the main trends in 2004: 16.5% of Brazil's households only had access to mobile telephony, up from 7.8% in 2001. 17.8%...
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DMB-based broadcast mobile TV
DMB-based broadcast mobile TV business case not working properly South Korea broadcasters began providing free mobile TV content to DMB-based mobile phones. If already-launched satellite DMB mobile TV attracted great success, based on fair split of the...
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Market researches - 4/12/05
According ti Point Topic, the IPTV market is developing well in 2005, with 1.5m subscribers by mid-05 (+40%) and a penetration of 1.5%. More than 75% of IPTV subscribers are in the Europe and APAC regions. Dell'Oro found that the total PBX market grew...
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Alfa Telecom / Altimo
Alfa Telecom / Altimo No week in the recent months without an announcement concerning Alfa Telecom (Russia). The latest is a change in the name of the company. Alfa Telecom will be named Altimo from now. Altimo is the leading private equity investment...
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Connected people
Connected people The average European internet user now spends 10 hours 15 minutes a week online compared to 8hrs 45mn a week in 2004 (+17%) according to a study by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). This study also reveals that...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 27/10/05
Ciena announced the successful completion of interoperability testing and qualification of its ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Platform for IBM GDPS eServer. Fujitsu will add ADVA' s FSP 150 Fiber Service Platform to its own optical portfolio. Cisco will...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 20/10/05
Lucent announced a new Multimedia Access Platform, an Internet Protocol (IP)-based solution targeting high-bandwidth Video/IPTV, Multimedia and VoIP services to the mass market. The platform supports DSL, optical Fiber and wireless. Intel is conducting...
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Market researches - 30/11/05
Gartner predicts that Chinese telecom regulators are most likely to issue 3G licenses in the first half year of 2006. The World GSM Association reported that Pakistan has received $950m in investment from six cellular companies so far during 2005 and...
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Market researches - 26/11/05
France' s DTT (digital terrestrial TV) reached 1m households passed, or about 10% penetration in covered areas. According to IDC, the server market grew 8% in 3Q05, with $12,5bn sales driven by low-cost equipment segment. Windows-based servers gained...
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Nowhere without your cellphone
Nowhere without your cellphone: Sea cruisers were one of the few places without “bip-bip” or rings from a mobile handset, but it is over. SeaMobile has signed an agreement with Silversea Cruises to enable mobile phones to work when out at sea. And we...
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Market researches - 24/11/05
According to Nortel, China will grant 3 or 4 3G licenses covering the three available technologies (WCDMA, CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA) in early 2006, and in the case of WCDMA go straight to HSDPA. According to iSuppli, less than 5% of broadband subscribers...
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Market researches - 15/11/05
According to The Management Network Group, flexible digital rights management solutions and ad-supported services are crucial to driving the wireless content market, According to Infonetics Research, IPTV is set to skyrocket. Worldwide IPTV service revenue...
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Qualcomm sues Nokia
Qualcomm sues Nokia The complaint involves 12 GSM patents. Qualcomm, with respect to the patents alleged to be essential to the GSM/GPRS/EDGE standards, must license the patents on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms. The complaint follows another...
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Market researches - 13/11/05
According to China-based CCID Consulting, 3Q05 mobile phone sales reached 21m units, with forecast of total shipment in 2005 of 88m units, up 21%. Nokia is the market leader with 19% market share, followed by Motorola with 12% and Samsung Electronics...
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Market researches - 9/11/05
According to Eureca Research, about 29.5m mobile TV phones will use the DAB standard by 2010. GPS services are in demand from consumers and businesses, In Europe, 6m GPS built-in mobile terminals would be sold this year, and 8m in 2006. Mozilla' s Firefox...
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Market researches - 5/11/05
According to Gartner, 15m PDAs would be shipped this year, of which 3,5m in 3Q05 (+21%) and 34% in W,Europe. RIM, HP and Palm form the Top 3 manufacturers, Push-to-talk (PTT) is believed to become the new hotspot of 3G applications with user numbers to...
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Mobile predictions for 2006
Mobile predictions for 2006 inCode has released its Top 10 Global Wireless Predictions for 2006. New entrants are challenging existing business models, especially in mobile music and mobile TV Next year will see a new business model for voice services...
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Alcatel results
Alcatel' s results: Alcatel said its 3Q05 net income rose 36% to €266m, and its revenues grew 8.8% to €3.3bn. The operating profit fell 25% to € 278m and the target of a yearly operating margin of 10% is out of reach. The new target is at 9%. Gross margin...
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Fujitsu results
Fujitsu announced 6-month (from March to Sept.) net profit of $66m (vs profit of $71m a year ago) while sales were down 1.2% to $18.9bn. 3Q05 net profit was $44.6m and sales fell 3.8% to $ 10bn. 3Q05 results were good enough to maintain fiscal year guidance...