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Bellsouth' s results
Bellsouth' s results: It reported a 2.3% increase in 3Q05 net profit, without Cingular impact, to $817m, while revenues were almost flat at $5.1bn. Cingular reported $8.7bn in revenues and a 56% jump in profit. Bellsouth' s normalized earnings were $845m....
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Market researches - 30/10/05
According to CSFB, in the US, cable companies added a net 1m broadband customers in 3Q05, while telcos added 1.3m new users. According to IDC, the IMS market will become a $14bn market by 2010. According to a Jupiter Research, the number of US resident...
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Mobile phones to be used as payment machines
Mobile phones to be used as payment machines: It could be the next big application for mobile devices. The phone is used to pay on line any small purchase in stores, automatic tellers, ticketing machines, and many other devices. The transaction is made...
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Mobile digital music
Samsung and Sony Ericsson do not want to let Apple alone in the mobile digital music. Samsung unveiled the SPH-V7900, a camera phone with 3 Go memory space, able to store up to 700 songs or be used as an external PC hard drive. Sony Ericsson introduced...
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Microsoft enters WiFi market
Microsoft is surfing on the WiFi wave, and introduces version 1.0 of its new VirtualWiFi software. VirtualWiFi is targeted to ease WiFi commissioning and connection. WiFi is relatively complex with several (and often incompatible) norms, and could need...
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Market researches - 13/10/05
InfoTech reveals that PBX vendors are in the first position followed by suppliers of data network devices for the supply of IP telephony (IPT) systems to the mid-market segment. According to In-Stat, the market for multi-service business gateway equipment...
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Market researches - 6/10/5
According to Canalys, shipments of smart mobile devices reached 9.6m in 1H05. TI announced the shipment of over 150m VOIP ports. Xtend Networks forecast a $20bn market for cellular backhaul. Yankee Group reports W.E. Could have nearly 100m digital TV...
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Market Researches - 25/06/05
Mobile gaming is projected to generate $3bn in revenue in the U.S. In 2009, according to Mintel International. RHK, the telecom consulting group is dead. Benefiting from the telecom boom, it did not go through the 2001-2004 downturn period. 10th Street...
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Mobile Broadband - 18/06/05
Ericsson CEO sees that mobile broadband is paving the way for new services and is becoming the new media channel. Mobile music and TV are seen as the main drivers of mobile broadband. It was also the impression in CommunicAsia fair, last week. The mobile...
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IPTV - 18/06/05
IPTV: According to the latest Heavy Reading report, "IPTV and the Future of Telecom Video Networks.", IPTV is strongly impacting the access network. Needing to handle a lot of traffic and a big number of users, the aggregation part is becoming the key...
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Market Researches 2 - 11 June 2005
LG and Nokia assessed the worldwide 3G handset market to be about 50m units in 2005, of which 22m in Europe. Chinese 3G subscribers could reach 6.2m in 2006, 73m in 2008 and 200m in 2010, according to the Chinese Information Industry . According to Pyramid...
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Market Researches 1 - 11 June 2005
Teledensity in LATAM is about 17%, while mobile density reached 32%. According to a report by Infonetics Research, the worldwide home network market is booming, growing from $1.2bn to $ 5.5bn by 2008. Another report from Infonetics revealed the worldwide...
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Telecom in the US - 11 June 2005
US: will cable companies be forced to open their network to third parties? The broadband industry is waiting Supreme Court decision in Brand X case. Brand X Services is an ISP that needed access to a cable system to offer its services to the cable operator's...
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Bluetooth - 11 June 2005
Bluetooth: many people think Bluetooth is obsolete and will disappear. Manufacturing Bluetooth devices has, however, never been so healthy. And many vendors are just introducing cellular/Bluetooth convergence solutions (Alcatel, Nokia, Lucent, ...). A...
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Cellphones in planes - 11 June 2005
Cellphones in planes: In last few months, many vendors were marketing their solutions to provide wireless connections in planes. And already many airlines companies are equipping their planes with such technology. The debate, however, to open such a service...
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cable market - 5 June 2005
DOCSIS device shipment reached 5m units in 1Q05, of which more than 1m E-MTAs and almost 4m cablemodems. Arris, Motorola and Scientific Atlanta are the embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) market leaders, with a combined 83% market share. Motorola...
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High Altitude Platform Stations - 5 June 2005
American and European companies intend to deploy wireless networks with antennas placed in balloons or HAPS (High Altitude Platform Stations), powered by solar cells. US Globetel, in association with Sanswire Technologies, targets deploying such a solution,...
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Undersea telecom market - 5 June 2005
Submarine telecom market: after years of turmoil and shrinking revenues with quasi no new demand, the undersea system market could be close to $1.5bn this year, up from $380m in 2004. With bandwidth demand growing about 40% a year, overcapacity is steadily...
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market researches - 5 June 2005
According to Datamonitor, radio frequency identification technology (RFID) will be a $6bn market by 2010, of which 43% in NA, 33% in EMEA, 21% in APAC, and 3% in CALA. Worldwide Ethernet services revenues could be $ 5bn this year and could grow to $22bn...
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Cellular/ WiFi convergence - 28 May 2005
Cellular/WiFi: The Unlicensed Mobile Access group has reached its goal to write specifications for seamless roaming and hand-offs between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, and in addition, specifications are included in the Third Generation Partnership Project's...
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Bluetooth is not dead! 28 May 2005
Bluetooth is not dead: some 5m Bluetooth units are shipped each week, according to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. In 2004, more than 250m Bluetooth units were shipped worldwide. For the future, Bluetooth SIG is planning to work with UWB to develop...
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Market researches - 21st May 2005
ð Asia telecom carrier capex is expected to grow 3% this year to $54bn, according to Infonetics. ð Informa believes worldwide mobile subscriber base will reach 2.14 bn by year-end. ð Bulgaria could invest $2bn over the next five years to modernize and...
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Future OS standard - 21st May 2005
Future OS standard: Telcordia, Lucent, Nortel, Siemens, and Cramer are teaming to jointly address the need of operations system (OS) interface standardization. They will unveil soon the Multi-Technology Operations Systems Interface (MTOSI). This is a...
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Network services market - 21st May 2005
Network services market: Lucent and Ericsson were up to now the main vendors reporting strong inroads in the network services market. Both have established well-advertised units and gained large orders. Nokia has established its own unit in February and...
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DSLAM market - 21st May 2005
st May 2005DSLAM market : The DSLAM market was worth $3.1-$3.3bn in 2004 according to In-Stat, and is expected to remain flat over the next few years. The market will be highly competitive, with shrinking average selling price (ASPs) over the next several...