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Market Researches 05-18-05
According to Juniper Research, 44% of on line consumers surveyed are interested in viewing video on their cell phones for free, but only 19% indicate they would be willing to pay anything for those services. The wireless gambling market will generate...
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2- market researches 05-14-05
Photo messaging currently concerns about 7% of US mobile users (or 13m users). According to IDC, US wireless data services amounted to about 6% of mobile services, and are expected to grow to 15% in next years. Messaging accounts for 50% of current data...
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1 - market researches 05-14-05
Worldwide revenue from Ethernet services reached $2.5bn last year according to Infonetics, and could double this year, and reach $22bn by 2009. See more information at: http://www.infonetics.com/resources/purple.shtml?ms05.eth.1q.nr.shtml Insight Research...
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Mobile penetration 05-14-05
Mobile penetration : 100% penetration in Western Europe is for tomorrow, said Analysys. Already Norway has more mobile phones than people, and UK, Italy and Sweden are very close . But what does it mean exactly? Penetration is computed on active mobile...
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Two French operators merge 05-14-05
Cegetel and Neuf Telecom (France) announced merger plans. The new entity is called Neuf Cegetel. SFR (Vivendi) will held 28% of the new entity, Neuf Telecom 44% (main shareholders are Telecom Italia, Suez et Belgacom) and Louis Dreyfus 28%. Former shareholder...
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Market corner (3)
ð Juniper Research believes the global mobile entertainment revenues should grow to $60bn by 2009, with gambling and games accounting for about $19bn each. The market could be $ 17.6bn in 2005. ð More than 3.4m PDA devices were shipped in 1Q05, according...
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Market researches 2
ð According to Gartner, European IT services would grow 3.5% in 2005 to 163bn, and could reach $185bn by 2008. Business process outsourcing could grow at 6.6%, with outsourcing continuing to outperform with a 4.6% growth. UK would grow at 5.6%, Germany...
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Europe: telecom overview
Europe: according to Infonetics Research, European telecom carrier capex rose 6% in 2004 to 40.6bn and is expected to grow 9% this year to 44bn. Revenues were only up 2% to 306bn, and are expected to grow 3% in 2005. Mobile revenues grew 8% in 2004, and...
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Tanzania- Africa
Tanzania : Mobile penetration could reach 10% (or 3m users) by the end of the year, and could reach 15% (or 5m users) by 2010. Current situation is 2.5m subscribers. Mobile is far ahead of fixed line penetration that can only count 150,000 land line holders....
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Market research
ð According to IDC, 30m U.S. mobile subscribers would be consuming commercial video/TV content and services on their handsets by 2009. Related ARPU could be up to $10. ð IDC forecasts that the number of voice over broadband connections (on IP and non-IP...
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Telecom in India
Telecom equipment costs in India : the Telecom Equipment Manufacturers' Association of India (TEMA) said that competition is drawing prices down. According to TEMA, India s requirement could reach as high as $32bn by 2007. With India seen as the second...
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Convergent billing
Convergent Billing : Analysys is publishing a new report on Convergent Billing in Europe . They predict capex on fixed-mobile convergent billing systems (excluding spend on integration services, hardware and in-house effort) would increase by 36% over...
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CDMA 450
CDMA 450 : The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has announced a deal with the International 450 Association (IA 450) to create opportunities for CDMA2000 technologies at 450 MHz. They will work on technology, regulatory and marketing activities. Two main...
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Satellite cell phones
Satellite cell phones : About adecade ago, some companies were proud to announce their projects to replaceconventional mobile phones with handsets transmitting calls off satellitesorbiting Earth. They have names, such as Iridium, Teledesic, and few others.They...
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Market research 2 - N60
ð According to Insight Research, the global telecom software for operations support systems ( OSS ) would exceed $30bn in 2005. ð According to In-Stat, the rise in 3G deployments is a sign of its growing acceptance. 3G infrastructure is shipping, 3G licenses...
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Market research 1 - N60
ð According to Gartner, all smartphones would have a built-in wireless email application by the end of 2008. ð Forrester found that 2/3 of US households have at least one mobile phone. ð According to Strategy Analytics, 257m camera phones (38% of total...
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Mobile handset sales
According to Forward Concepts, older-technology phone sales (TDMA, PDC, but also CdmaOne and GSM) will decline, while sales of newer technologies like EDGE, W-CDMA and EV-DO are on the rise. GSM handset sales could drop 23% this year, while W-CDMA handset...
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Mobile telecom overview in Pakistan
Pakistan : Have a population of 150 million and a low income of $ 500 GDP per capita. Mobile penetration is just 4.5%, but mobile operators are making huge efforts in telecommunications investments. They will invest $1bn in 2005 and additional $4bn in...
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3GPP release 6 specs finalized
Specifications for 3GPP Release 6 are finalized. 3GPP Release 6 includes numerous new features, such as High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) to complement HSDPA, the second phase of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), inter-working with Wireless Local Area...
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Wireless mesh networking
Wireless mesh networking : an old idea that is finally emerging. Formerly developed for military applications, wireless mesh networking found its way when using 802.11 standard and some clever routing algorithms. Key demand is emerging for infrastructure...
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Naked DSL
Naked DSL : it is the term used to describe the situation in which DSL service is provided by a service provider to customers who receive no voice service from this operator, but from another one or no voice service at all: a situation relatively frequent...
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Market corner N56
A few set of market information released this week: [ Multimedia Research forecast IPTV market could reach $7.2bn by 2008 (from $0.6bn in 2004), and IPTV subscribers grow from 1.9m in 2004 to 25m in 2008. [ According to IDC, the French VOIP market was...
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Market optimism
Carl-Henrik Svanberg, from Ericsson, is optimistic. He said: the telecommunication industry's confidence has returned and our market is expanding again. Our customers are buying more equipment to increase network capacity and introduce new services.''...
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Market Corner (2) N55
[ China will issue no more than three 3G licenses, according to the China Academy of Telecommunications Research. [ According to Pyramid Research, Latam mobile messaging revenues could reach $4bn by 2009. [ According to the Swedish SNPTA agency, Sweden...
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Market Corner (1) N55
[ China will issue no more than three 3G licenses, according to the China Academy of Telecommunications Research. [ According to Pyramid Research, Latam mobile messaging revenues could reach $4bn by 2009. [ According to the Swedish SNPTA agency, Sweden...