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- Enterprise Mobility in China: USD 4.1 billion market in 2014
According to a new report from Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company, enterprises in China are beginning to express increasing demand for enterprise mobility for reasons such as higher affordability, more option for customization, and easier deployment.
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- Significant opportunity for mobile content in emerging markets
Many emerging market operators feel very confident about their current market position, and few are concerned about device vendors’ inroads into content and applications through applications stores or vertically integrated mid- to low-end services such as Nokia Life Tools.
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- Cloud computing will be hybrid
According to Ovum, Cloud computing, the most important trend for 2010 has barely even started. The next three years will see cloud computing mature rapidly as vendors and enterprises come to grip with the opportunities and challenges that it represents.
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- UC implementation is proceeding despite budget constraints
Ovum, the global advisory and consulting firm, conducted a new research with multinational corporations (MNCs). It shows that, despite fierce budget constraints, they are upping the pace of unified communications (UC) implementation and integration.
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- Culture in the core of enterprise collaboration
Cisco’s collaboration strategy focuses on three main points: technology, process and culture. We were pleased to see Cisco highlighting culture as an important factor in the collaboration story, especially in Asia-Pacific where countries and companies are highly diverse.
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- Huawei captures the lead in $15.2B optical networking market
The global optical networking (ON) market, led by strength in Asia-Pacific markets, totaled $3.6 billion, down 4% sequentially and down 10% compared with 3Q08. “Regional results were mixed: the bleeding in North America appears to have stopped.
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- Strategies for the mobile industry to maximize the rural India opportunity
According to a new report from Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company, rural India presents significant growth opportunities for the mobile industry. However, due to low ARPU and the higher cost of providing services in rural India.
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- More challenges ahead of fixed-mobile convergence
Ovum’s research shows that there is currently little integration between the services available for the different users’ profiles. Most companies struggle with separate fixed and mobile devices, independent infrastructures and separate voice-mail systems.
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- The LTE business case: plan now to avoid the rush
Right now the LTE tide is turning to flood, with the technology moving from definition to implementation. Commercial launches of LTE networks are expected to start in 2010, with early deployments from NTT DoCoMo, Verizon and TeliaSonera.
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- Asian Suppliers step into Telepresence
“By 2014, the telepresence-based videoconferencing services market will be worth USD 450 million globally, and Asia-Pac could account for nearly 42% of that,” said David Molony, Principal Analyst at Ovum, based in London.
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- WiMAX in Emerging markets: A niche rather than mass market
WiMAX has struggled to establish a foothold in the mature broadband markets of Europe, North America and Asia. There is both hope and expectation that the emerging markets, with their low fixed-line penetration.
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- Strategies for the success of Mobile Search
Burnett said, “Vendors and content providers have to recognise that people interact with their mobile phones in very different ways than they do their PCs. The interaction is dictated by the tiny screen, typically awkward keypad and limited on-screen navigation.
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- More fingers in the Apple pie
O2’s exclusivity agreement with Apple in the UK for the iPhone is coming to an end, as the device is to be available on both Orange and Vodafone. O2 and the UK’s two non-iPhone mobile network operators will undoubtedly need to find a response.
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- Operator strategies for mobile broadband in emerging markets
Operators today are taking a far more pragmatic approach to mobile broadband in emerging markets than in developed markets, focusing more on the service offered (web access) than the technology or device.
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- Where’s the value add in big-screen mobile broadband?
Fierce price competition in Europe continues to drive down the price of big-screen mobile broadband services, threatening profitability as usage increases. Mobile operators have spoken of the potential to boost revenues and margins by selling a range of value-added services.
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- Undersea outages in Asia – Again!
Several news outlets have reported multiple undersea cable breaks around Southeast Asia occurring on 12 August 2009. Due to the depths of the water and the fact that – according to various reports and quoted cable operators - multiple cables have been affected.
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- Huawei to near tie with Alcatel-Lucent in ON market says Ovum
Ovum today announced its preliminary 2Q09 results for global optical equipment networking vendors. The global optical networking (ON) market, led by strength in Asia-Pacific markets, was $3.9 billion, up 11% sequentially but down 9% compared with 2Q08.
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- EU finally frees up the 900MHz band for other uses
Following the European Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers approved the European Commission’s GSM Directive, which allows the 900MHz frequency band to be used by technologies other than GSM and GPRS, as previously established by the GSM Directive of 1987.
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- Smartphone capability tracker : what’s hot and what’s not
The widespread availability of GPS (across all of the major smartphone platforms) is great news for developers wishing to deploy location-based applications and services, but so far few developers have taken advantage of this beyond basic navigation products.
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- European telcos tread carefully in enterprise services business
BT Global Services today reported a 4% increase in revenues to £2,079 million in the three months to the end of June, the first quarter in its current financial year, 2010. However, its EBITDA was squeezed further to £62 million and the division ended with an operating loss of £124 million.
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- Network service providers running IP networks ‘hotter
The service provider switching and routing market fell 20% in 1Q09 compared with 1Q08 and will likely continue to decline. Yet carriers continue to report robust IP traffic growth, and this is only the tip of the upcoming video tsunami. Cisco’s recent Visual Networking Index predicts IP traffic will increase fivefold from 2008–13.
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- Digital dividend: new airwaves, new potential and new challenges
This spectrum is suitable for a wide range of uses: wireless broadband, mobile TV, more digital terrestrial television and low-power applications such as Wi-Fi. For wireless operators in particular, it offers a good combination of range and data capacity, and is capable of penetrating buildings and covering large geographical areas with relatively few transmitters.
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- Emphasis shifts to fibre to the home
In countries such as Korea and Japan, the rapid take-up of FTTH/B and subsequent decline of ADSL technologies is nothing new. However, this network evolution is now spreading outside of Asia, and a number of western countries will start to see a rapid increase in FTTH/B and thus a decline in ADSL over the next couple of years.
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- Palm Pre coming to an iPhone operator near you
Telefonica is no doubt pleased to have secured the next-great-smart-phone-after-the-iPhone. However, we can’t help feeling that it may have scored itself something of an own-goal. While the Palm Pre, with its internet-inspired webOS, looks an interesting concept, we’re left wondering how it will compete with the iPhone on the same turf.
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- US broadband stimulus stipulations
In a flurry of activity in June, the US regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), gained a new chairman, Julius Genachowski, confirmed a second term for Commissioner Robert McDowell and is set to gain two more Commissioners, Meredith Baker and Mignon Clyburn.
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- Asia-Pacific drives global mobile revenue growth
Ovum previously predicted that global mobile services revenues would breach $1 trillion in 2010. The greatest impact of recessionary forces is seen in the short term. In Asia-Pacific, Ovum has revised its revenue growth forecasts for 2009 down to 8% from 10% in previously published figures.
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- Nokia signs agreement with Intel
This announcement follows Intel’s acquisition of Wind River, a supplier of operating systems for embedded devices. The Wind River acquisition has given Intel a significant foot-hold in embedded and mobile devices, it provides them with the expertise to ensure that its chipsets are optimized towards embedded devices.
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- Mobile application stores : key success factors
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Apple has demonstrated that its platform for the iPhone and iPod Touch allows developers to make money.
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- iPhone 3GS: ‘lack of innovation’ hides true assets
Apple’s faithful may be disappointed with the iPhone 3GS’s apparent failure to move the smartphone goalposts, but the refinement of the device through continual software platform evolution remains a key differentiator that others should emulate where possible.
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- Vodafone launches femtocells in the UK
This is further evidence that in early launches the femtocell business case will focus on coverage and not the ‘mobile home hubs’ that some in the industry believe. However, selling coverage that customers believe that they are already paying for comes with its own risks of a backlash if it is pushed too hard.
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- Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications and services to mobile phones.
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- Mobile UC : high on the vendor agenda
There are many different types of player involved in providing end-to-end UC solutions to mobile users. Carriers, IP telephony vendors, handset manufacturers, application developers and system integrators all have a role to play in mobile UC. Vendors are currently taking the lead.
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- Mobile phone shipments in 2009 will be down by 9.1%
The economic downturn will have a significant impact on mobile phone shipments in 2009; the volumes will be down globally by 9.1%. This is according to the latest forecasts from global advisory and consulting firm Ovum, titled “Mobile phone forecast pack 2008-2014”.
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- India welcomes Mobile Virtual Network Operators
On Monday, the Indian government finally gave the go-ahead for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to enter the market. This follows a recommendation back in August 2008 from India’s regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The government is expected to release detailed guidelines for MVNO entrants soon.
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- Telepresence grows in Asia-Pacific
Telepresence was a global vendor (Cisco/Tandberg/Polycom), global service provider (AT&T/BT/Verizon Business) story. That changed recently when Hong Kong-based CPCNet launched a managed high-definition (HD) video conferencing solution, VC2, and China’s Huawei Technologies launched its own line of telepresence equipment.
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- Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators
Ten years ago, site sharing was deemed an anathema to mobile network operators. Operators felt the network was key to differentiation. Fast-forward to today and commercial realities are driving operators to cut costs. For now, passive sharing is most likely.
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- Huawei beats Alcatel-Lucent in 1Q09 to top optical networking market
Of the top ten vendors, none posted both sequential and year-over-year revenue gains, reflecting slowing spending in much of the world. Vendors who beat both the sequential and year-over-year average market declines of 15% and 8%, respectively, include Ericsson, Huawei, and NEC.
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- Huawei takes over the top spot in DSL shipments
Ovum today announced its preliminary quarterly results for global 1Q09 DSL and CMTS port shipments. “The buoyant domestic market in China has lifted Huawei to first place in quarterly DSL volume shipments for the first time ever,” said Ovum Analyst Kamalini Ganguly. “Huawei also substantially increased its shipments to the EMEA region in 1Q09.
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