Articles tagged with: 3G and Driving

Emerging Markets Cautious About Telecoms CAPEX for 2009

Debt ratings agency, Fitch Ratings said today that the challenging macro-economic outlook is driving emerging market telecoms to adopt a more cautious stance on capital spending for 2009. In a new report, Fitch compares technology development and investment trends across Emerging Asia, Latin America, Russia/CIS and Africa, and examines currency risks stemming from the recent devaluation of most emerging market currencies. more

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Consumer Demand Steady for iPhone, BlackBerry - But What About the Palm Pre?

In recent years, ChangeWave consumer surveys have chronicled a seismic shift to smart phones, with Apple and Research In Motion locked in a two-horse race while most of their competitors have been caught in a downward spiral. more

Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014

Users of mobile broadband services (3g and 3g+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum's latest research. more

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FMC and femtocell equipment markets poised to take off in face of downturn

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a report on FMC and Femtocell Equipment, which forecasts that combined, sales of FMC network element equipment and femtocell equipment are expected to grow at a healthy rate through the economic downturn and really take off in 2011, reaching nearly $8 billion worldwide by 2013. more

Mobile Internet Device Shipments to Rise Nearly Eightfold by 2012

The definition of the Mobile Internet Device (MID) may be somewhat nebulous, given the category overlaps multiple products, ranging from some Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) to certain Portable Media Players (PMPs). However, there's nothing nebulous about the MID growth opportunity, with global unit shipments expected to expand by nearly a factor of eight from 2007 to 2012, according to iSuppli Corp. more

AT&T to Invest Over $17 Billion During 2009

AT&T has announced that it plans to spend between $17 billion to $18 billion in 2009 on improving its networks. This is in like with its 2007 capital expenditures of $17.7 billion and expected to exceed the planned investment of any other U.S. telecom company. more

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HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively. more

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148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year

Travellers have long been familiar with the roaming services available for cellular voice calls. Now that 3g networks are widely deployed, similar roaming functions are being made available for data services including MMS and mobile Internet access. Explored in a new ABI Research Brief, these arrangements are already generating revenues in the billions of dollars. more

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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08

The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more

Northern Europe Tops ICT Developments Index

ITU has published an ICT Development Index (IDI), which compares developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007. The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be used as a benchmarking tool globally, regionally and at the country level. These are related to ICT access, use and skills, such as households with a computer the number of Internet users; and literacy levels. more

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